Middle Ages & Modern Era

What book peaked Europeans’ interest in Asia?

Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople in 1453 & renamed it

The Treaty of Westphalia

What kind of wars did the US & USSR fight in Korea &Vietnam?

Medieval Russian culture began to resemble 

Who said rulers had a social contract with theirpeople & could therefore be overthrown?

Which queen of England defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588?

What year did Magellan's Spanish expedition circle the earth?

What technological development spread Martin Luther’s ideas to a wider audience?

In 1215, English nobles forced King John to sign what document?

Christians recapturing of Spain in 1492

exchange of plants, animals, etc. betweenEurasia & America

Mongol invasions occurred...

Who worked toward theunification of Germany?

T or F - In the Byzantine Empire, Latin replaced Greek as the official language.

Who was the Christian king of the Franks who built a new European empire c.800 AD?

Fierce Scandinavian warriors who terrorized Europe in 800s-900s are known as 

The eastern Roman Empire had its capital at ____________.

Muhammad established Islam in 

What year did the Allies achieve victory in World War 2?

What Russian leader tried to modernize Russia by adopting Western ways in the late 1600s?

T or F - Byzantine emperors served as head of both church and state 

The philosophical movement that wanted to apply “natural laws” to society =

What year did Christopher Columbus land in the West Indies?

The eastern Roman Empire survived as the ___________ Empire.

After Napoleon, leaders met in Vienna to undochanges & restore

Who wrote about the "humaninstinct for aggression & self-destruction”?

Because of the Crusades...

Under feudalism, local lords hired _______ for protection.

What is another term for the bubonic plague that swept Europe in the 1300s?

What 2 branches did the medieval church eventually split into?

Who is most closely linked to the age of "absolute monarchy"?

The last of the religious wars was the

What 2 “superpowers” emerged after World War II, bringing about the Cold War?

Who was key in driving the English out of France in 1453 (during the Hundred Years’ War)?

Who called for a more open, democratic government in USSR in the mid-1980s?

_______ lived on a lord’s estate in exchange for agricultural work.

The “rebirth” of interest in Greek & Roman culture that began in Florence, Italy around 1350 =

Where was the Hundred Years' War fought?