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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...

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 ...

AP Euro Unit 9 Exam Study Guide

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...

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...

Joan of Arc Deeply religious girl. Came to Charles VII and claimed to have heard the voices of saints ordering her to save Orleans. Fought in the Hundred Years War and helped the French. Captured by the English. Burned as a heretic. Wars of the Roses English aristocratic families (with their armies) fighting other families for control. Lancaster vs York. Henry Tudor wins (Henry VII). Tudor dynasty begins in England. Holy Roman Empire Large, powerful kingdom with territory throughout central...

Scientific Revolution advances in the knowledge of how nature works, included new discoveries and solved ancient problems, moved knowledge from uncertainty to uncertainty, came in the fields of physics, astronomy, and medicine alchemy the belief that matter could be understood and transformed by mixing substances and using secret formulas, a famous alchemist was Paracelsus, who said that metals as well as plants might have medicinal properties Vesalius influenced anatomy and astronomy, wro...

Scientific Revolution advances in the knowledge of how nature works, included new discoveries and solved ancient problems, moved knowledge from uncertainty to uncertainty, came in the fields of physics, astronomy, and medicine alchemy the belief that matter could be understood and transformed by mixing substances and using secret formulas, a famous alchemist was Paracelsus, who said that metals as well as plants might have medicinal properties Vesalius influenced anatomy and astronomy, wro...