History Ch 2

Question 1

Diet

Answer 1

parliament-like meeting between the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire

Question 2

Indulgences

Answer 2

letters signed by the pope or a bishop in which all your sins were forgiven

Question 3

Reformation

Answer 3

the split between the Catholics and the Protestant church

Question 4

Protestants

Answer 4

all Christian religions that are non Catholic

Question 5

Treaty of Augsburg

Answer 5

treaty in which each German ruler could choose if his princedom would be Catholic or Protestant

Question 6

Counter-reformation:

Answer 6

Catholic reaction to the reformation, meant to protect their church and reform all Protestants

Question 7

Inquisition

Answer 7

the systematic persecution of Protestants in Europe

Question 8

Index

Answer 8

a list of books banned by the Catholic Church

Question 9

Gewesten

Answer 9

the seventeen provinces that formed the Low Countries

Question 10

States General

Answer 10

a general meeting with representatives from all provinces

Question 11

Governor

Answer 11

the person who rules an area for the King while he is away

Question 12

Tolerance

Answer 12

to allow things that are forbidden by the government of your country, or that are not common

Question 13

Stadtholder

Answer 13

a nobleman who represented the king in one or more provinces

Question 14

Compromise of Nobles

Answer 14

a petition of Dutch nobles for Philip II to lower taxes, return some of the province’s power and ease up on the persecution of Protestants

Question 15

Iconoclastic Fury

Answer 15

destruction and theft of art in churches, nunneries and monasteries throughout the Low Countries

Question 16

Council of Troubles

Answer 16

a special tribunal sent by Philip II to the Low countries to convict the people involved in the Iconoclastic Fury

Question 17

Dutch Revolt

Answer 17

the rise of the Northern provinces of the Low Countries against Alva

Question 18

Geuzen

Answer 18

Protestants who fled from Alva’s Council of Troubles; they supported William of Orange in his rebellion

Question 19

Watergeuzen

Answer 19

geuzen that operated at sea

Question 20

Fortified towns

Answer 20

cities with high walls and sometimes moats to protect them from attacks

Question 21

To besiege

Answer 21

surrounding a city or castle with the intention of taking it over or starving its people out

Question 22

Spanish fury

Answer 22

mutiny of Spanish mercenaries in which they plundered and burned down Antwerp

Question 23

Union of Utrecht

Answer 23

the alliance of the Northern provinces of the Low Countries against Spain

Question 24

Act of abjuration

Answer 24

the official declaration of independence from Philip II by the Northern provinces of the Low Countries