Religious War and Age of Expansion Flashcards
Important terms
Gustavus Adolphus
1594 - 1632
Swedish Lutheran who won victories for the German Protestants in the Thirty Years War and lost his life in one of the battles
Duke of Alva
1508 - 1582
Military leader sent by Philip n to pacify the Low Countries.
Armada
1588
Spanish vessels defeated in the English Channel by an English fleet, thus preventing Philip II’s invasion of England.
Vasco de Balboa
First European to reach the Pacific Ocean, 1513.
Catherine de Medici
1547 - 1589
The wife of Henry II (1547-1559) of France, who exercised political influence after the death of her husband and during the rule of her
weak sons.
Christopher Columbus
First European to sail to the West Indies, 1492.
Concordat of Bologna
1516
Treaty under which the French Crown recognized the supremacy of the pope over a council and obtained the right to appoint all French bishops and abbots.
Fernando Cortez
Conqueror of the Aztecs, 1519-1521.
Defenestration of Prague
The hurling, by Protestants, of Catholic officials from a castle window in Prague, setting off the Thirty Years’ War.
Bartholomew Diaz
First European to reach the southern tip of Africa, 1487-1488.
Dutch East India Company
Government-chartered joint-stock company that controlled the spice trade in the East Indies.
Edict of Nantes
(1598) - The edict of Henry IV that granted Huguenots the rights of public worship and religious toleration in France.
Elizabeth I
1558 - 1603
Protestant ruler of England who helped stabilize religious tensions by subordinating theological issues to political considerations.
Prince Henry the Navigator
Sponsor of voyages along West African coasts, 1418.
Henry IV
1589 - 1610
Formerly Henry of Navarre; ascended the French throne as a convert to Catholicism. Surrived St. Bartholomew Day, signed Edict of Nantes, quoted as saying “Paris is worth a mass.”
