HIST 2322 Exam 1
Protestant Reformation ANS✔✔ Who:
What: Calls for reform of the Catholic church, criticized clerical immorality,
ignorance and absenteeism
When: Early 16th Century
Where: Western Europe
Historical significance: Caused an uproar
Hugenot ANS✔✔ Who: Church in France
What: Inspired by the Church in Geneva
When:
Where:
Historical significance:
Martin Luther ANS✔✔ Who: Priest and professor from the University of
Wittenberg
What:
When:
Where: Germany
Historical significance: Caused an uproar
John Calvin ANS✔✔ Who: One of the most important second-generation
reformers
What: Believed in predestination
,When:
Where: Reformed Geneva, Switzerland
Historical significance: Spread Calvinism to many Dutch and English colonies
around the world
Council of Trent ANS✔✔ Who:
What: A general council of the Church that met intermittently from 1545-1563
When: Mid 1500's
Where:
Historical significance: Laid a solid basis for the renewal of the Catholic church
which served as the basis for the Roman Catholic faith, organization, and
practice for 4 centuries
Jesuit ANS✔✔ Who: Founded by Ignatius Loyola
What: "Society of Jesus"
When: 1540
Where:
Historical significance: Established well-run schools to educate the sons of
nobility and the poor, brought Catholicism to South and Central America,
India and Japan, exerted a great political influence by being confessors and
spiritual directors to kings
Peace of Augsburg ANS✔✔ Who: Emperor Charles the V agreed to it
What: Officially recognized Lutherism and ended religious war in Germany for
many decades
When: 1555
,Where:
Historical significance: Was Charles V's hope of uniting his empire under one
religion
Great Chain of Being ANS✔✔ Who:
What: Linked God to his creating in a series of ranked and social groups
When:
Where:
Historical significance:
Thirty Years War ANS✔✔ Who:
What: A conflict between the Catholic Union and the Protestant union
When: 1618-1648
Where: All over Europe
Historical significance: Was the most destructive event in central Europe prior
to the world wars
Absolutism ANS✔✔ Monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and
enforce laws, denying any other institution or group the authority to check
their power
Sovereignty ANS✔✔ When a state possesses a monopoly over the
instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries
Divine right of kings ANS✔✔ Who: King Louis XIV based his authority on
this
, What: God established kings as his rulers on earth and were answerable only
to Him alone
When:
Where:
Historical significance:
Mercantilism ANS✔✔ A collection of governmental policies for the
regulation of economic activities by and for the state with the aim of increasing
state power
King Louis XIV ANS✔✔ Who: King of France
What:
When: 1643-1715
Where: France
Historical significance: His system of having standardized weapons and
uniforms and a system of training and promotion was emulated across Europe
and is known as a "military revolution"
Constitutionalism ANS✔✔ Who:
What: The limitation of government by law
When:
Where:
Historical significance: England and Netherlands evolved towards this form of
government
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