Age of Religious Warfare and Persecution KT (all)

Question 1

Ultra-Catholic French family that helped coordinate attacks on the Huguenots and formed a key alliance with Philip II

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Guise

Question 2

Dutch leader of the revolt against the Spanish

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William of Orange

Question 3

She was executed by her first cousin Elizabeth I in 1587 for her role in the abortive Babington Conspiracy/Plot

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Mary Queen of Scots

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It included a repeal of Bloody Mary’s Catholic legislation, second Act of Supremacy, the Act of Uniformity, and the 39 Articles

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Elizabethan Religious

Settlement

Question 5

In 1588, this supposedly invincible Spanish fleet was battered by the English navy and “Protestant” winds

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Spanish Armada

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Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg

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Benelux

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The only survivor in this aptly named war was Henry of Navarre, who was reputed to claim that “Paris is worth a mass”

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War of the Three Henries

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Elizabeth’s childless death led to the end of this dynasty

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Tudor

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The first of the religious wars that pitted the Catholic forces of Charles V versus the Protestant league of the German territories

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Schmalkaldic War

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She helped coordinate the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and served as regent for her sons, Charles IX and Henry III

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Catherine de’ Medici

Question 11

Historic peace treaty that ended the Schmalkaldidc Wars and left the German states decentralized and lacking individual religious toleration

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Peace of Augsburg

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Literally “whosever region, his religion”; the idea that the territorial German leader would determine the religion of his subjects

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Cuius regio, eius religio

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Successor to the Valois dynasty in France; its first monarch was Henry IV

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Bourbon

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After his father Charles V’s abdication, he was given Spain, the Netherlands, New World territories, and Naples (~and Sicily?)

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Philip II

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The”middle way,” or spirit of compromise and toleration that in part made Elizabeth a successful ruler and helped England avoid some of the problems faced by many other nations in continental Europe

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Via media

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The key port city of the United Provinces and the commercial capital of 17th century Europe

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Amsterdam

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French Calvinists

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Huguenots

Question 18

Infamous coordinated attack against the Hugenots in 1572; a key event in the so-called French Wars of Religion

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Saint Bartholomew’s day Massacre

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Perhaps the greatest naval victory of Philip II in which his navy, representing Catholic Europe, decimated the Ottoman fleet off the coast of Greece in 1571

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Battle of Lepanto

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The “Virgin Queen” and “Good Queen Bess”

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Elizabeth I

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Leader of the Sea Dogs who both plundered Spanish galleons and led the English navy against the Spanish Armada in 1588, his successes led to knighthood (much to the anger of Philip II)

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Sir Francis Drake

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Landmark French law signed in 1598 that granted Huguenots both political and religious rights

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Edict of Nantes

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The Versailles-like palace of Philip II

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El Escorial

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Also called the United Provinces, the northern Protestant provinces of the old Spanish Netherlands that gained their independence by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648

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Dutch Republic

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After his brother's abdication, he was given the Habsburg lands in the German and Austrian territories

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Ferdinand I

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The Bard; perhaps the most well-known writer of the English language

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William Shakespeare

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Infamous textbook (in Latin) for uncovering and rooting out witchcraft

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Malleus Maleficarum

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A rival of Shakespeare, an Elizabethan spy, and author of many plays like Tamburlaine

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Christopher Marlowe

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Swedish monarch well-known for assembling a standing army made of conscripts (ad not mercenaries)

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Gustavus Adolphus

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Spanish author of Don Quixote

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Cervantes

Question 31

A person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place, during the Witchcraft Craze, they tended to be poor, widowed, elderly women

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Scapegoat

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A social and economic cause of the Witchcraft Craze was a move away from communalism and a shift towards _____

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Individualism

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Famous Mannerist painter patronized by Philip II and artist of the Laocoön

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El Greco

Question 34

After the Peace of Westphalia, this was the political condition of the German territories and a key reason why unification would be over two hundred centuries in the making

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Decentralization

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The immediate cause of the Thirty Years' War in which Calvinist nobles in Bohemia hurled out of a window representatives of the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II

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Defenestration of Prague

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Along with the Treaty of the Pyrenees, this historic peace treaty ended the Thirty Years' War

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Peace of Westphalia

Question 37

By the Treaty of Westphalia, it was made a legal religion along with Catholicism and Lutheranism

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Calvinism

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Theatre that was home to many of Shakespeare's plays

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The Globe

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A military draft

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Conscription

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The origins of this Habsburg dominion in central and southeastern Europe lay in their failure to unite the German states under their rule

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Austrian Empire

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His religious skepticism was emblematic of intellectual attitudes increasingly held by elites that helped contribute to the decline of the Witchcraft Craze

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Montaigne

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Group of French political theorists who argued political loyalty to the nation and not religious uniformity ought to be pursued

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Politique