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AP European History Chapter 19 Questions and Answers with Complete Solutions July 14, 1879 This was the largest Third Estate revolt as a result of Louis XVI getting mad at them for trying to make a new constitution. Louis had increased his troops at his arsenals in Paris to inflame public opinion. The Third Estate needed weapons and invaded Invalides and then Bastille, an armory/state prison. When the Bastille fell, it symbolized the defeat of despotism. The Bastille a royal armory and st...

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AP Euro Chapter 2 Questions and Answers Rated A+ Medici Family Ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy from banking, spent a lot of money on art, controlled Florence for about 3 centuries Cosimo de Medici Italian financier and statesman and friend of the pope he helped get into papal office. Supported Brunneleschi's completion of the Duomo. He also commissioned public art for the city of Florence. Machiavelli's The Prince A short political treatise about political power how the...

AP Euro Dates Quiz and Answers Already Graded A+ Black Death 1348-1351 Council of Constance burns Hus and ends Great Schism 1415-1417 Fall of Constantinople; end of Hundred Years' War 1453 Invention of printing press 1455 Columbus encounters America; completion of reconquista in Spain 1492 Luther posts 95 Theses 1517 Cortez conquers Aztecs 1519 Act of Supremacy in England creates Anglican Church 1534 Calvin establishes reformed faith in Geneva 1536 Copernicus publishes heliocentric ...

Black Death (The Plague) 1347 Genoese sailors carried cargo along with disease-infested rats and fleas with a disease later called this. Often transmitted person to person- many priests died because cared for the sick. Started with boil, bubo that was a bump the size of a nut or apple and very painful- gave name. Next came bleeding under skin with spots and blotches. Finally person coughed violently and spit blood and death followed in 2 or 3 days. Not enough time, people, and places to bur...

Commercial Revolution the expansion of the trade and buisness that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries. proto-industrialization Preliminary shift away from agricultural economy in Europe; workers become full- or part-time producers of textile and metal products, working at home but in a capitalist system in which materials, work orders, and ultimate sales depended on urban merchants; prelude to Industrial Revolution. cottage industry This was the way form of w...

AP Euro Unit 9 Exam Study Guide

Cosimo de Medici supported education and the arts, made many business connections in Europe Lorenzo Medici gave power to the lower classes of Italy, but he let his family business decline. Savonorola bonfire of Vanities and Ruled Florence STRICTLY, later exectued by the Pope Petrarch coined the term renaissance, , (1304-1374) Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization. Pico della Mirando...

Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance was the beginning of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600. Jacob Burckhart A 19th century historian who claimed the Renaissance period stood in distinct contrast to the Middle Ages city-states Small independent states mostly in the central and northern Italian peninsula that caused much competition and were not politically unified betwee...