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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The deadly disease that spread into Europe from across the Silk Road:	Black Death	98%
This change led to the start of this period in European History:	Renaissance	65%
Italian city with some of the greatest developments in arts and culture during this historical period:	Florence	62%
It was led by this merchant family:	Medici	60%
This German priest started it by challenging the church's position on Salvation:	Martin Luther	58%
This man invented the printing press in 1440:	Johannes Gutenberg	57%
The First World War was started by the assassination of this person:	Franz Ferdinand	54%
This technology allowed for the invention of cars and airplanes:	Internal Combustion Engine	51%
The Plague dealt a blow to this economic and social system:	Feudalism	50%
New denominations also came to the forefront, such as this one created by John...:	Calvin	49%
These payments, which could also be provided for those already dead, were called:	Indulgences	48%
An Italian thinker observed conflict and political intrigue and commentated on them:	Niccolò Machiavelli	48%
This was the trade route between Europe and Asia:	Silk Road	48%
Christopher Columbus discovered the new world in this year:	1492	46%
The other ruling family:	Habsburg	45%
Mitteleuropa (Germany) was part of this loosely united empire:	Holy Roman Empire	45%
He wrote a famous book on statecraft around 1513. It was called:	The Prince	45%
When the French people attempted to overthrow the directory, they were stopped by this man:	Napoleon	43%
This palace was built to centralize control, but was excessively coslty:	Palace of Versailles	43%
This country defined the next period of the conflict. Despite being Catholic, it fought with protestants to prevent the Habsburgs from gaining more influence:	France	42%
Ancient Greek and Latin texts like Cicero's letters to Atticus were uncovered by people like the poet:	Petrarch	42%
He attempted to unify the Habsburg lands of Spain, the HRE, and:	Austria	40%
That trade route was disrupted when Ottomans conquered this city in 1453:	Constantinople	40%
Unlike the Northern movements which used this kind:	Oil	40%
This German philosopher said that "God is dead:"	Friedrich Nietzsche	39%
This British politician fought against the King in the English Civil War and became Lord Protector of England after the King was executed:	Oliver Cromwell	39%
He attempted to invade this country but was forced to retreat by scorched earth policies and a cold winter:	Russia	39%
This later Russian absolute monarch was also called "the Great:"	Catherine	38%
One such company from the Netherlands became involved in colonization:	Dutch East India Company	38%
This country was divided into a communist east and a capitalist west after the War:	Germany	38%
This Russian leader came to power in 1689 and banned beards in an attempt to enforce western values:	Peter the Great	38%
Church practices has become unpopular because they allowed people to pay in order to spend less time in this place:	Purgatory	38%
In 1933, this radical politician became Chancellor of Germany:	Adolf Hitler	37%
The influence of this institution declined during this time period:	Catholic Church	37%
In Italy, governments were mostly organized into these independent groups:	City state	37%
A King of Spain with this name tried to invade England and fought against the reformation:	Philip II	37%
This state was described as "an army with a country:"	Prussia	37%
The teachings of the Catholic Church were challenged by this event:	Reformation	37%
Knowledge of the rest of the world originally came from historic documents, such as the writings of this Italian explorer who visited China:	Marco Polo	36%
It entered Europe in this year:	1347	35%
This English monarch had strong foreign policy which they used to secure the country's independence from Spain:	Elizabeth I	35%
It had two major components:	Italian	35%
This monarch succeeded Elizabeth I and tried to implement more royal power:	James I	33%
This King attempted to suppress rebellion in this modern-day country:	Netherlands	33%
This explorer found a route around Africa to India in 1498:	Vasco da Gama	33%
A revolution in France started in this year:	1789	32%
Reforms were blocked and this movement was initiated at this council:	Council of Trent	32%
They allowed for the bureaucracy to establish this King's absolutism:	Louis XIV	32%
The Theory of Relativity was articulated by this German-Jewish physicist:	Albert Einstein	31%
This meeting was called to determine how German authorities should respond to Martin Luther:	Diet of Worms	31%
James II was overthrown and replaced with William and Mary for trying to override Parliament and restore Catholicism in this revolution:	Glorious Revolution	31%
After this conflict, France emerged as a centralized state:	Hundred Years War	31%
His ideological opponent was this person who advocated for the "Consent of the Governed:"	John Locke	31%
And:	Northern	31%
That monarch's policies supported this newly established protestant state church in England:	Church of England	30%
He was exiled to this small island near Italy but quickly came back before being defeated a second time:	Elba	30%
A thinker from the second latter is known as the father of Humanism:	Erasmus	30%
This expansion was motivated by the quest for what three things:	Gold, Glory, God	30%
Copernicus established this structure of the solar system:	Heliocentric	30%
This Father of Rationalism said "I think, therefore I am:"	Rene Descartes	30%
This royal family rose to prominence in Russia:	Romanov	30%
Despite the Peace of Augsburg, this religious conflict started again in Mitteleurope from 1618 to 1648:	Thirty Years War	30%
Ottomans besieged this city in 1529 and 1682:	Vienna	30%
The Germans sent this Russian dissident living in Switzerland to Russia in order to foment revolution:	Vladimir Lenin	30%
This King was executed in this year:	1793	29%
This theoretical governmental ideal was supported by countries like France, Prussia, and Russia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries:	Absolutism	29%
In contrast to Absolutism, this type of monarchy emerged in England:	Constitutional	29%
This material was farmed on a large scale by the British in India and by the Americans in the south:	Cotton	29%
In response to the Reformation, the Catholic Church initiated this movement:	Counter-Reformation	29%
The French Wars of religion between those people and the Catholics was ended by this agreement in 1598:	Edict of Nantes	29%
This American president dropped the atomic bomb on Japan:	Harry Truman	29%
This conflict was a world-spanning war mainly fought between France and Britain over colonies:	Seven Years War	29%
This crop was quickly cultivated in the new world and was used to create rum:	Sugar Cane	29%
Several months later, this treaty was signed between Germany and the Allies:	Treaty of Versailles	29%
That King's predecessor as King of Spain attempted to impose Catholicism on the Holy Roman Empire:	Charles V	27%
These "Catholic monarchs" united Spain:	Ferdinand and Isabella	27%
The French group of this denomination were called:	Hugenots	27%
The revolutionaries fought against this Tsar:	Nicholas II	27%
This American President pushed a 14 point plan and tried to guarantee peaceful settlements to future conflicts:	Woodrow Wilson	27%
European expansion into other parts of the world began during this period:	Age of Exploration	26%
He led this group in the Russian Revolution which wanted to depose the Tsar and establish socialism:	Bolshevik	26%
Britain had a natural advantage in the industrial revolution due to abundant access to this energy-dense mineral:	Coal	26%
Absolutism was mixed with humanism to create this form of absolutism:	Enlightened	26%
This time period precipitated the Scientific Revolution:	Enlightenment	26%
The Western equivalent, which still exists, is called:	NATO	26%
This French cardinal, aligned with absolutism, said that "Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never:"	Richelieu	26%
Psychiatry was created by this Austrian thinker:	Sigmund Freud	26%
During the Dutch Golden Age, they had a monopoly over trade in this substance:	Spice	26%
This country dominated in the next period of the war as a protestant power. It brought about a more professional army and formalized practices like firing in volleys, pikes, ad cavalry charges:	Sweden	26%
In seventeenth century Europe, a scare about this alleged kind of person was spread:	Witch	26%
It was also influenced to join the conflict after intercepting this message to Mexico:	Zimmerman Telegram	26%
This international meeting was called in order to reorganize Europe after the Napoleonic Wars:	Congress of Vienna	25%
Next, this small country entered the conflict and shifted the balance of power:	Denmark	25%
This astronomer discovered his namesake laws of planetary motion:	Johannes Kepler	25%
America entered the war after the sinking of this civilian ship:	Lusitania	25%
This man was the last leader of the Soviet Union:	Mikhail Gorbachev	25%
Joseph Stalin was replaced as Soviet leader by this man after his death:	Nikita Kruschev	25%
This German leader spearheaded that country's unification:	Otto von Bismarck	25%
Members of the National Assembly took this oath on June 20:	Tennis Court Oath	25%
This person became the first king of all-Italy:	Victor Emmanuel II	25%
The Soviet formed this military alliance with countries in Eastern Europe:	Warsaw Pact	25%
Relations worsened again after the USSR invaded this country:	Afghanistan	24%
This first phase of the war saw Habsburg dominance. It was named for this Czech region:	Bohemian	24%
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were on what side of the First World War:	Central Powers	24%
From the 1750's onwards, this change reshaped society and allowed for large scale production and consumption:	Industrial Revolution	24%
This woman became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with a hardline anti-communist policy:	Margaret Thatcher	24%
To rebuild Europe after the war, the US passed this plan:	Marshall	24%
This treaty ended this war:	Treaty of Westphalia	24%
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain attempted this policy to avoid another war with Germany:	Appeasement	23%
Germany used this strategy to defeat its opponents extremely quickly:	Blitzkrieg	23%
The aftermath of these agreements lead to this type of order:	Conservative	23%
He negotiated a treaty that stated that Kings are sovereign above the Pope in their kingdoms in 1555. It was called:	Peace of Augsburg	23%
This philosopher created the idea of a "State of Nature" and advocated harsh punishments dealt out by the state:	Thomas Hobbes	23%
This Vatican treaty was created to split the entire world into the spheres of influence of Spain and Portugal:	Treaty of Tordesillas	23%
After the Soviet Union blockaded a German city, the Western countries initiated this event to maintain its supplies:	Berlin Airlift	21%
This French wartime leader became it's strongly nationalistic President, charting a separate path for French foreign policy apart from East and West:	Charles de Gaulle	21%
This war began after the Russians insisted on taking control of Christian sites in the holy land from the Ottomans:	Crimean War	21%
She went to war with Argentina after they invaded this remote British Colony:	Falkland Islands	21%
Northern European traders from this group expanded trade in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea:	Hanseatic League	21%
The conflict ended in this year with the Treaty of Paris:	1763	20%
After joint victory against France, Germany was unified in this year:	1871	20%
His policy culminated in the fall of this wall, ending the Cold War:	Berlin Wall	20%
Antisemitism was seen in French society when the military suffered this scandal:	Dreyfus Affair	20%
King Louis XVI called this body in order to raise taxes:	Estates General	20%
It was spearheaded by this Austrian Minister:	Klemens von Metternich	20%
This daughter's name was:	Maria Theresa	20%
Italy conquered this ancient state, ruled by the Pope:	Papal States	20%
This Englishman formed the idea of empiricism:	Sir Francis Bacon	20%
This year was known as the Spring of Nations and saw popular, nationalist revolutions across Europe:	1848	19%
Two years later, the Soviet Union collapsed after this Russian leader took power:	Boris Yeltsin	19%
He was deposed after his decisive defeat and capture in this war:	Franco-Prussian War	19%
When Queen Anne died with no heirs, the British Parliament chose this person to become king:	George I	19%
And this party was led by William Gladstone:	Liberal	19%
This French monarch was placed on the throne after Napoleon was removed:	Louis XVIII	19%
This person was elected President of France in 1848 but soon seized power and made himself emperor:	Napoleon III	19%
That man soon began rearming this region, despite that being forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles:	Rhineland	19%
This artistic and cultural movement emerged in response to the "coldness" of the enlightenment and advocated a return to nature:	Romanticism	19%
Chamberlain allowed Germany to annex this majority-German region of Czechoslovakia and soon conquer the whole country:	Sudetenland	19%
Wars between this French Ruling family and another ruling family took place in Italy from the late fifteenth to mid sixteenth century:	Valois	19%
France retook this region which the Germans had conquered during the Franco-Prussian war:	Alsace-Lorraine	18%
This family was one of the pioneers of this interconnected system in Europe:	Banking	18%
As a result of financial problems, European countries began granting independence to their colonies in a trend known as:	Decolonization	18%
Absolutists believed in this religiously inspired principle:	Divine Right of Kings	18%
By this Serbian agitator:	Gavrilo Princip	18%
It was ruled by this royal dynasty:	Hohenzollern	18%
The Bastille Prison was stormed on which day of that year:	July 14	18%
Kruschev was eventually replaced by this man who has a namesake doctrine of enforcing hardline communism on Eastern Bloc nations:	Leonid Brezhnev	18%
Prussia was the winner of that conflict because they gained this territory:	Silesia	18%
Both political parties broadly supported these changes. During the Victorian period, this party was led by Benjamin Disraeli (give common name):	Tory	18%
This trade was established to move goods and labour from Europe to the New World and to Africa. It expanded slavery into the New World:	Triangular Trade	18%
During that war, this person became noteworthy for founding modern nursing:	Florence Nightingale	17%
Some people sought to protect their way of life by destroying industrial equipment. They were called:	Luddites	17%
He was succeeded as French Chief Minister by this person:	Mazarin	17%
He attempted to invade this country and make Maximillian I its emperor:	Mexico	17%
Economic power is equal to Political Power multiplied by what other kind of power:	Military	17%
America entered the war after Japan attacked it in this place:	Pearl Harbour	17%
This Russian Emperor abolished serfdom but was assassinated in 1881:	Alexander III	15%
Prussia fought this war. It dissolved the German Confederation it had led and led to the establishment of the new North German Confederation:	Austro-Prussian War	15%
He implemented this policy to cut off Great Britain from European trade:	Continental System	15%
Mercantilism was the economic policy of most of Europe at this time. It was created by this Frenchman:	Jean-Baptiste Colbert	15%
This American doctrine led it to support Latin American revolutions:	Monroe Doctrine	15%
In an effort to find alternate trade routes, this royal established a school of navigation in Portugal:	Prince Henry	15%
This meeting created a balance of power known as the:	Concert of Europe	14%
Under US President Nixon, relations with the Soviet Union temporarily improved due to the phenomenon known as:	Detente	14%
Britain, France, Russia, and America were on what side of the First World War:	Entente	14%
These elite Ottoman soldiers were comprised of kidnapped European Christians:	Janissaries	14%
In the Netherlands, a financial revolution took hold with the invention of this type of company:	Joint-Stock Company	14%
Britain invested more in their colonies, leading them to eclipse this French colony in North America:	New France	14%
The war was finally ended on this day:	November 11	14%
This process led to more food production from inventions such as the steel plow:	Agricultural Revolution	13%
The Japanese Air Force failed to sink these important ships, as they were not in port:	Aircraft Carriers	13%
Germany held a false referendum in Austria leading to the unification of the two countries. This unification was called:	Anschluss	13%
Italy began to work toward unification under this politician:	Camillo di Cavour	13%
The Spanish government established this semi-feudal system to govern their New World colonies:	Encomienda	13%
He allowed for more free speech due to his ________ policy, meaning openness in Russian:	Glasnost	13%
They relied on the power of these nobles to guarantee their authority:	Junkers	13%
This Czechoslovak uprising was violently suppressed in 1968:	Prague Spring	13%
This American Admiral led the naval war effort against Japan:	Chester Nimitz	12%
During this event, he centralized power and had a mass purge of anyone not sufficiently loyal:	Night of the Long Knives	12%
And he restructured the government according to this policy:	Perestroika	12%
Germany invaded France via Belgium according to this plan:	Schlieffen Plan	12%
He spoke of a class of people who were morally and intellectually superior called:	Übermensch	12%
This group held power in France during the Reign of Terror:	Committee of Public Safety	11%
This organization was formed after the Napoleonic wars, when Napoleon had dissolved the Holy Roman Empire:	German Confederation	11%
He began perpetuating the Holocaust and claimed that the German race was superior. He defined the German race under these laws:	Nuremburg Laws	11%
Prussia fought Russia until this Russian leader made peace and switched sides:	Peter III	11%
A doctrine that only faith in Jesus Christ and not through "good works:"	Sola Fide	11%
Russia signed this treaty with the Germans to end their involvement in WW1 after the revolution:	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk	11%
Spanish and Portuguese dominance in Europe was replaced by the dominance of the Netherlands. It established this African colony in 1652:	Cape of Good Hope	10%
This economic trend occurred as it beame cheaper for people to meet their basic needs on less money:	Consumerism	10%
This group was the next to hold power:	Directory	10%
It would have beensupported by thinkers like this Briton, who believed that liberalism creates radical change and upsets the social order and that monarchy is needed to provide structure and order:	Edmund Burke	10%
In response to the destruction of the war, European philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus developed this philosophical theory:	Existentialism	10%
This leader of West Germany led his country towards reunification with the east:	Helmut Kohl	10%
This French monarch was known as the Citizen King:	Louis Phillipe	10%
The Renaissance artistic movement in Italy used this type of paint:	Tempera	10%
British politicians and leaders implemented social reforms to allow better lives for working class people during the industrial revolution. They included this King:	William IV	10%
This Dutch Prince attempted to unite the country's 17 provinces:	William the Silent	10%
The Third Estate declared themselves the National Assembly on this day:	June 17	8%
The War of Austrian Succession was fought after Joseph II proposed this document to allow his daughter to succeed to the throne:	Pragmatic Sanction	8%
This Belgian monarch continued to fight the Germans and is the last monarch to ever lead troops from the front line:	Albert I	7%
This Italian disected cadavers in order to get a better understanding of human anatomy and wrote On the Fabric of the Human Body:	Andreas Vesalius	7%
These people demanded reforms in the UK including universal male suffrage and a salary for MPs:	Chartists	7%
And this British diplomat:	Viscount Castlereagh	7%
This British thinker opposed Burke and promoted social reforms and established the harm principle:	John Stuart-Mill	6%
George Washington served in the North American front in this region:	Ohio Valley	6%
Britain conquered New France in this Battle	Battle of the Plains of Abraham	5%
This thinker tried to reconcile religion with science. He helped to pioneer the scientific method:	Blaise Pascal	5%
This German general told Kaiser Wilhelm that mobilization could not be stopped and had numerous failed military policies:	Helmut von Moltke	5%
The second phase of the war, when the Germans and the Allies attempted to outflank each other was called:	Race to the Sea	5%
The First World War ended this British policy of non-intervention on the European continent:	Splendid Isolation	5%
Britain defeated Indian states in this battle:	Battle of Plassey	4%
This British-born writer promoted the theory of the Aryan race which inspired Nazism and antisemitism:	Houston Chamberlain	4%
Disobedience spread through the German Army in November 1918 in this event:	Kiel Mutiny	4%
This is another name for the upper class in the Victorian Period. It denotes the fact that they had to work very little while still making money:	Leisure Class	4%
His son, Charles I, was overthrown after ignoring this document from Parliament:	Petition of Rights	2%
Enlightened absolutism failed in Austria because of the power of its aristocracy as well as its diversity which made it this type of empire:	Polyglot	2%
This pseudo-scientific school of thought made nations see conflict as a zero-sum game:	Social Darwinism	2%
This philosophy proposed a structured view of the natural world:	Hermeticism	1%

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