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It entered Europe in this year: | 1347 | 0%
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Christopher Columbus discovered the new world in this year: | 1492 | 0%
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The conflict ended in this year with the Treaty of Paris: | 1763 | 0%
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A revolution in France started in this year: | 1789 | 0%
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This King was executed in this year: | 1793 | 0%
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This year was known as the Spring of Nations and saw popular, nationalist revolutions across Europe: | 1848 | 0%
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After joint victory against France, Germany was unified in this year: | 1871 | 0%
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This theoretical governmental ideal was supported by countries like France, Prussia, and Russia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: | Absolutism | 0%
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In 1933, this radical politician became Chancellor of Germany: | Adolf Hitler | 0%
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Relations worsened again after the USSR invaded this country: | Afghanistan | 0%
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European expansion into other parts of the world began during this period: | Age of Exploration | 0%
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This process led to more food production from inventions such as the steel plow: | Agricultural Revolution | 0%
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The Japanese Air Force failed to sink these important ships, as they were not in port: | Aircraft Carriers | 0%
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The Theory of Relativity was articulated by this German-Jewish physicist: | Albert Einstein | 0%
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This Belgian monarch continued to fight the Germans and is the last monarch to ever lead troops from the front line: | Albert I | 0%
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This Russian Emperor abolished serfdom but was assassinated in 1881: | Alexander III | 0%
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France retook this region which the Germans had conquered during the Franco-Prussian war: | Alsace-Lorraine | 0%
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This Italian disected cadavers in order to get a better understanding of human anatomy and wrote On the Fabric of the Human Body: | Andreas Vesalius | 0%
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Germany held a false referendum in Austria leading to the unification of the two countries. This unification was called: | Anschluss | 0%
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain attempted this policy to avoid another war with Germany: | Appeasement | 0%
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He attempted to unify the Habsburg lands of Spain, the HRE, and: | Austria | 0%
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Prussia fought this war. It dissolved the German Confederation it had led and led to the establishment of the new North German Confederation: | Austro-Prussian War | 0%
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This family was one of the pioneers of this interconnected system in Europe: | Banking | 0%
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Britain defeated Indian states in this battle: | Battle of Plassey | 0%
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Britain conquered New France in this Battle | Battle of the Plains of Abraham | 0%
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After the Soviet Union blockaded a German city, the Western countries initiated this event to maintain its supplies: | Berlin Airlift | 0%
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His policy culminated in the fall of this wall, ending the Cold War: | Berlin Wall | 0%
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The deadly disease that spread into Europe from across the Silk Road: | Black Death | 0%
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This thinker tried to reconcile religion with science. He helped to pioneer the scientific method: | Blaise Pascal | 0%
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Germany used this strategy to defeat its opponents extremely quickly: | Blitzkrieg | 0%
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This first phase of the war saw Habsburg dominance. It was named for this Czech region: | Bohemian | 0%
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He led this group in the Russian Revolution which wanted to depose the Tsar and establish socialism: | Bolshevik | 0%
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Two years later, the Soviet Union collapsed after this Russian leader took power: | Boris Yeltsin | 0%
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New denominations also came to the forefront, such as this one created by John...: | Calvin | 0%
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Italy began to work toward unification under this politician: | Camillo di Cavour | 0%
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Spanish and Portuguese dominance in Europe was replaced by the dominance of the Netherlands. It established this African colony in 1652: | Cape of Good Hope | 0%
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This later Russian absolute monarch was also called "the Great:" | Catherine | 0%
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The influence of this institution declined during this time period: | Catholic Church | 0%
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were on what side of the First World War: | Central Powers | 0%
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This French wartime leader became it's strongly nationalistic President, charting a separate path for French foreign policy apart from East and West: | Charles de Gaulle | 0%
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That King's predecessor as King of Spain attempted to impose Catholicism on the Holy Roman Empire: | Charles V | 0%
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These people demanded reforms in the UK including universal male suffrage and a salary for MPs: | Chartists | 0%
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This American Admiral led the naval war effort against Japan: | Chester Nimitz | 0%
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That monarch's policies supported this newly established protestant state church in England: | Church of England | 0%
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In Italy, governments were mostly organized into these independent groups: | City state | 0%
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Britain had a natural advantage in the industrial revolution due to abundant access to this energy-dense mineral: | Coal | 0%
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This group held power in France during the Reign of Terror: | Committee of Public Safety | 0%
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This meeting created a balance of power known as the: | Concert of Europe | 0%
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This international meeting was called in order to reorganize Europe after the Napoleonic Wars: | Congress of Vienna | 0%
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The aftermath of these agreements lead to this type of order: | Conservative | 0%
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That trade route was disrupted when Ottomans conquered this city in 1453: | Constantinople | 0%
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In contrast to Absolutism, this type of monarchy emerged in England: | Constitutional | 0%
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This economic trend occurred as it beame cheaper for people to meet their basic needs on less money: | Consumerism | 0%
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He implemented this policy to cut off Great Britain from European trade: | Continental System | 0%
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This material was farmed on a large scale by the British in India and by the Americans in the south: | Cotton | 0%
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Reforms were blocked and this movement was initiated at this council: | Council of Trent | 0%
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In response to the Reformation, the Catholic Church initiated this movement: | Counter-Reformation | 0%
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This war began after the Russians insisted on taking control of Christian sites in the holy land from the Ottomans: | Crimean War | 0%
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As a result of financial problems, European countries began granting independence to their colonies in a trend known as: | Decolonization | 0%
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Next, this small country entered the conflict and shifted the balance of power: | Denmark | 0%
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Under US President Nixon, relations with the Soviet Union temporarily improved due to the phenomenon known as: | Detente | 0%
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This meeting was called to determine how German authorities should respond to Martin Luther: | Diet of Worms | 0%
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This group was the next to hold power: | Directory | 0%
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Absolutists believed in this religiously inspired principle: | Divine Right of Kings | 0%
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Antisemitism was seen in French society when the military suffered this scandal: | Dreyfus Affair | 0%
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One such company from the Netherlands became involved in colonization: | Dutch East India Company | 0%
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The French Wars of religion between those people and the Catholics was ended by this agreement in 1598: | Edict of Nantes | 0%
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It would have beensupported by thinkers like this Briton, who believed that liberalism creates radical change and upsets the social order and that monarchy is needed to provide structure and order: | Edmund Burke | 0%
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He was exiled to this small island near Italy but quickly came back before being defeated a second time: | Elba | 0%
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This English monarch had strong foreign policy which they used to secure the country's independence from Spain: | Elizabeth I | 0%
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The Spanish government established this semi-feudal system to govern their New World colonies: | Encomienda | 0%
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Absolutism was mixed with humanism to create this form of absolutism: | Enlightened | 0%
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This time period precipitated the Scientific Revolution: | Enlightenment | 0%
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Britain, France, Russia, and America were on what side of the First World War: | Entente | 0%
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A thinker from the second latter is known as the father of Humanism: | Erasmus | 0%
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King Louis XVI called this body in order to raise taxes: | Estates General | 0%
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In response to the destruction of the war, European philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus developed this philosophical theory: | Existentialism | 0%
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She went to war with Argentina after they invaded this remote British Colony: | Falkland Islands | 0%
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These "Catholic monarchs" united Spain: | Ferdinand and Isabella | 0%
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The Plague dealt a blow to this economic and social system: | Feudalism | 0%
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Italian city with some of the greatest developments in arts and culture during this historical period: | Florence | 0%
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During that war, this person became noteworthy for founding modern nursing: | Florence Nightingale | 0%
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This country defined the next period of the conflict. Despite being Catholic, it fought with protestants to prevent the Habsburgs from gaining more influence: | France | 0%
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He was deposed after his decisive defeat and capture in this war: | Franco-Prussian War | 0%
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The First World War was started by the assassination of this person: | Franz Ferdinand | 0%
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This German philosopher said that "God is dead:" | Friedrich Nietzsche | 0%
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By this Serbian agitator: | Gavrilo Princip | 0%
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When Queen Anne died with no heirs, the British Parliament chose this person to become king: | George I | 0%
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This organization was formed after the Napoleonic wars, when Napoleon had dissolved the Holy Roman Empire: | German Confederation | 0%
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This country was divided into a communist east and a capitalist west after the War: | Germany | 0%
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He allowed for more free speech due to his ________ policy, meaning openness in Russian: | Glasnost | 0%
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James II was overthrown and replaced with William and Mary for trying to override Parliament and restore Catholicism in this revolution: | Glorious Revolution | 0%
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This expansion was motivated by the quest for what three things: | Gold, Glory, God | 0%
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The other ruling family: | Habsburg | 0%
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Northern European traders from this group expanded trade in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea: | Hanseatic League | 0%
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This American president dropped the atomic bomb on Japan: | Harry Truman | 0%
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Copernicus established this structure of the solar system: | Heliocentric | 0%
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This leader of West Germany led his country towards reunification with the east: | Helmut Kohl | 0%
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This German general told Kaiser Wilhelm that mobilization could not be stopped and had numerous failed military policies: | Helmut von Moltke | 0%
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This philosophy proposed a structured view of the natural world: | Hermeticism | 0%
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It was ruled by this royal dynasty: | Hohenzollern | 0%
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Mitteleuropa (Germany) was part of this loosely united empire: | Holy Roman Empire | 0%
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This British-born writer promoted the theory of the Aryan race which inspired Nazism and antisemitism: | Houston Chamberlain | 0%
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The French group of this denomination were called: | Hugenots | 0%
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After this conflict, France emerged as a centralized state: | Hundred Years War | 0%
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These payments, which could also be provided for those already dead, were called: | Indulgences | 0%
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From the 1750's onwards, this change reshaped society and allowed for large scale production and consumption: | Industrial Revolution | 0%
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This technology allowed for the invention of cars and airplanes: | Internal Combustion Engine | 0%
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It had two major components: | Italian | 0%
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This monarch succeeded Elizabeth I and tried to implement more royal power: | James I | 0%
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These elite Ottoman soldiers were comprised of kidnapped European Christians: | Janissaries | 0%
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Mercantilism was the economic policy of most of Europe at this time. It was created by this Frenchman: | Jean-Baptiste Colbert | 0%
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This man invented the printing press in 1440: | Johannes Gutenberg | 0%
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This astronomer discovered his namesake laws of planetary motion: | Johannes Kepler | 0%
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His ideological opponent was this person who advocated for the "Consent of the Governed:" | John Locke | 0%
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This British thinker opposed Burke and promoted social reforms and established the harm principle: | John Stuart-Mill | 0%
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In the Netherlands, a financial revolution took hold with the invention of this type of company: | Joint-Stock Company | 0%
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The Bastille Prison was stormed on which day of that year: | July 14 | 0%
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The Third Estate declared themselves the National Assembly on this day: | June 17 | 0%
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They relied on the power of these nobles to guarantee their authority: | Junkers | 0%
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Disobedience spread through the German Army in November 1918 in this event: | Kiel Mutiny | 0%
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It was spearheaded by this Austrian Minister: | Klemens von Metternich | 0%
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This is another name for the upper class in the Victorian Period. It denotes the fact that they had to work very little while still making money: | Leisure Class | 0%
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Kruschev was eventually replaced by this man who has a namesake doctrine of enforcing hardline communism on Eastern Bloc nations: | Leonid Brezhnev | 0%
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And this party was led by William Gladstone: | Liberal | 0%
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This French monarch was known as the Citizen King: | Louis Phillipe | 0%
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They allowed for the bureaucracy to establish this King's absolutism: | Louis XIV | 0%
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This French monarch was placed on the throne after Napoleon was removed: | Louis XVIII | 0%
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Some people sought to protect their way of life by destroying industrial equipment. They were called: | Luddites | 0%
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America entered the war after the sinking of this civilian ship: | Lusitania | 0%
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Knowledge of the rest of the world originally came from historic documents, such as the writings of this Italian explorer who visited China: | Marco Polo | 0%
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This woman became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with a hardline anti-communist policy: | Margaret Thatcher | 0%
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This daughter's name was: | Maria Theresa | 0%
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To rebuild Europe after the war, the US passed this plan: | Marshall | 0%
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This German priest started it by challenging the church's position on Salvation: | Martin Luther | 0%
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He was succeeded as French Chief Minister by this person: | Mazarin | 0%
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It was led by this merchant family: | Medici | 0%
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He attempted to invade this country and make Maximillian I its emperor: | Mexico | 0%
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This man was the last leader of the Soviet Union: | Mikhail Gorbachev | 0%
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Economic power is equal to Political Power multiplied by what other kind of power: | Military | 0%
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This American doctrine led it to support Latin American revolutions: | Monroe Doctrine | 0%
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When the French people attempted to overthrow the directory, they were stopped by this man: | Napoleon | 0%
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This person was elected President of France in 1848 but soon seized power and made himself emperor: | Napoleon III | 0%
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The Western equivalent, which still exists, is called: | NATO | 0%
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This King attempted to suppress rebellion in this modern-day country: | Netherlands | 0%
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Britain invested more in their colonies, leading them to eclipse this French colony in North America: | New France | 0%
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An Italian thinker observed conflict and political intrigue and commentated on them: | Niccolò Machiavelli | 0%
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The revolutionaries fought against this Tsar: | Nicholas II | 0%
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During this event, he centralized power and had a mass purge of anyone not sufficiently loyal: | Night of the Long Knives | 0%
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Joseph Stalin was replaced as Soviet leader by this man after his death: | Nikita Kruschev | 0%
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And: | Northern | 0%
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The war was finally ended on this day: | November 11 | 0%
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He began perpetuating the Holocaust and claimed that the German race was superior. He defined the German race under these laws: | Nuremburg Laws | 0%
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George Washington served in the North American front in this region: | Ohio Valley | 0%
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Unlike the Northern movements which used this kind: | Oil | 0%
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This British politician fought against the King in the English Civil War and became Lord Protector of England after the King was executed: | Oliver Cromwell | 0%
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This German leader spearheaded that country's unification: | Otto von Bismarck | 0%
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This palace was built to centralize control, but was excessively coslty: | Palace of Versailles | 0%
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Italy conquered this ancient state, ruled by the Pope: | Papal States | 0%
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He negotiated a treaty that stated that Kings are sovereign above the Pope in their kingdoms in 1555. It was called: | Peace of Augsburg | 0%
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America entered the war after Japan attacked it in this place: | Pearl Harbour | 0%
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And he restructured the government according to this policy: | Perestroika | 0%
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Prussia fought Russia until this Russian leader made peace and switched sides: | Peter III | 0%
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This Russian leader came to power in 1689 and banned beards in an attempt to enforce western values: | Peter the Great | 0%
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His son, Charles I, was overthrown after ignoring this document from Parliament: | Petition of Rights | 0%
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Ancient Greek and Latin texts like Cicero's letters to Atticus were uncovered by people like the poet: | Petrarch | 0%
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A King of Spain with this name tried to invade England and fought against the reformation: | Philip II | 0%
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Enlightened absolutism failed in Austria because of the power of its aristocracy as well as its diversity which made it this type of empire: | Polyglot | 0%
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The War of Austrian Succession was fought after Joseph II proposed this document to allow his daughter to succeed to the throne: | Pragmatic Sanction | 0%
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This Czechoslovak uprising was violently suppressed in 1968: | Prague Spring | 0%
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In an effort to find alternate trade routes, this royal established a school of navigation in Portugal: | Prince Henry | 0%
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This state was described as "an army with a country:" | Prussia | 0%
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Church practices has become unpopular because they allowed people to pay in order to spend less time in this place: | Purgatory | 0%
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The second phase of the war, when the Germans and the Allies attempted to outflank each other was called: | Race to the Sea | 0%
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The teachings of the Catholic Church were challenged by this event: | Reformation | 0%
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This change led to the start of this period in European History: | Renaissance | 0%
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This Father of Rationalism said "I think, therefore I am:" | Rene Descartes | 0%
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That man soon began rearming this region, despite that being forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles: | Rhineland | 0%
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This French cardinal, aligned with absolutism, said that "Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never:" | Richelieu | 0%
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This royal family rose to prominence in Russia: | Romanov | 0%
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This artistic and cultural movement emerged in response to the "coldness" of the enlightenment and advocated a return to nature: | Romanticism | 0%
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He attempted to invade this country but was forced to retreat by scorched earth policies and a cold winter: | Russia | 0%
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Germany invaded France via Belgium according to this plan: | Schlieffen Plan | 0%
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This conflict was a world-spanning war mainly fought between France and Britain over colonies: | Seven Years War | 0%
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Psychiatry was created by this Austrian thinker: | Sigmund Freud | 0%
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Prussia was the winner of that conflict because they gained this territory: | Silesia | 0%
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This was the trade route between Europe and Asia: | Silk Road | 0%
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This Englishman formed the idea of empiricism: | Sir Francis Bacon | 0%
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This pseudo-scientific school of thought made nations see conflict as a zero-sum game: | Social Darwinism | 0%
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A doctrine that only faith in Jesus Christ and not through "good works:" | Sola Fide | 0%
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During the Dutch Golden Age, they had a monopoly over trade in this substance: | Spice | 0%
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The First World War ended this British policy of non-intervention on the European continent: | Splendid Isolation | 0%
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Chamberlain allowed Germany to annex this majority-German region of Czechoslovakia and soon conquer the whole country: | Sudetenland | 0%
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This crop was quickly cultivated in the new world and was used to create rum: | Sugar Cane | 0%
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This country dominated in the next period of the war as a protestant power. It brought about a more professional army and formalized practices like firing in volleys, pikes, ad cavalry charges: | Sweden | 0%
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The Renaissance artistic movement in Italy used this type of paint: | Tempera | 0%
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Members of the National Assembly took this oath on June 20: | Tennis Court Oath | 0%
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He wrote a famous book on statecraft around 1513. It was called: | The Prince | 0%
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Despite the Peace of Augsburg, this religious conflict started again in Mitteleurope from 1618 to 1648: | Thirty Years War | 0%
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This philosopher created the idea of a "State of Nature" and advocated harsh punishments dealt out by the state: | Thomas Hobbes | 0%
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Both political parties broadly supported these changes. During the Victorian period, this party was led by Benjamin Disraeli (give common name): | Tory | 0%
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Russia signed this treaty with the Germans to end their involvement in WW1 after the revolution: | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | 0%
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This Vatican treaty was created to split the entire world into the spheres of influence of Spain and Portugal: | Treaty of Tordesillas | 0%
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Several months later, this treaty was signed between Germany and the Allies: | Treaty of Versailles | 0%
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This treaty ended this war: | Treaty of Westphalia | 0%
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This trade was established to move goods and labour from Europe to the New World and to Africa. It expanded slavery into the New World: | Triangular Trade | 0%
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He spoke of a class of people who were morally and intellectually superior called: | Übermensch | 0%
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Wars between this French Ruling family and another ruling family took place in Italy from the late fifteenth to mid sixteenth century: | Valois | 0%
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This explorer found a route around Africa to India in 1498: | Vasco da Gama | 0%
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This person became the first king of all-Italy: | Victor Emmanuel II | 0%
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Ottomans besieged this city in 1529 and 1682: | Vienna | 0%
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And this British diplomat: | Viscount Castlereagh | 0%
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The Germans sent this Russian dissident living in Switzerland to Russia in order to foment revolution: | Vladimir Lenin | 0%
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The Soviet formed this military alliance with countries in Eastern Europe: | Warsaw Pact | 0%
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British politicians and leaders implemented social reforms to allow better lives for working class people during the industrial revolution. They included this King: | William IV | 0%
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This Dutch Prince attempted to unite the country's 17 provinces: | William the Silent | 0%
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In seventeenth century Europe, a scare about this alleged kind of person was spread: | Witch | 0%
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This American President pushed a 14 point plan and tried to guarantee peaceful settlements to future conflicts: | Woodrow Wilson | 0%
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It was also influenced to join the conflict after intercepting this message to Mexico: | Zimmerman Telegram | 0%
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