European History Flashcards
1
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was a Russian modernist composer who was best known for his ballet The Rite of Spring, which legendarily
caused a riot at its 1913 premiere in Paris.
A
Igor Stravinsky
2
Q
- The first European to sight the Mississippi River was the Spanish explorer
A
Hernando de Soto.
3
Q
was a leader of the Rurikid dynasty who initiated the construction of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, and
is considered the first tsar of Russia.
A
Ivan the Terrible
4
Q
- Swedish king led Protestant forces during the Thirty Years’ War.
A
Gustavus Adolphus
5
Q
- is a microstate on the French Riviera that gained international attention when Prince Rainier the Third married the
American actress and Academy Award-winner Grace Kelly.
A
Monaco
6
Q
The was a 1687 work by Sir Isaac Newton that established the scientist’s laws
of motion and universal gravitation.
A
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
7
Q
- The was a union of traders that was centered in the German port of Lubeck.
A
Hanseatic League
8
Q
The campaign was a failed operation during World War One in which the Allied powers attempted to weaken the
Ottoman Empire.
A
Gallipoli
9
Q
- The was a series of trials and executions begun under Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain that specifically targeted Jewish and Muslim citizens of the Iberian peninsula.
A
Inquisition
10
Q
- was a British scientist who is considered the world’s first computer programmer. Lovelace designed a set of
notes concerning the analytical engine, an early type of computer developed by Charles Babbage.
A
Ada Lovelace
11
Q
- is a British primatologist who conducted a 30-year study of chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park in
Tanzania.
A
Jane Goodall
12
Q
- was the first monarch of the Kingdom of Greece.
A
King Otto
13
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- led Germany as Kaiser during World War One after dismissing the ‘Iron Chancellor,’ Otto von Bismarck.
A
Wilhelm the Second
