Religious War and Age of Expansion

Question 1

Gustavus Adolphus

1594 - 1632

Answer 1

Swedish Lutheran who won victories for the German Protestants in the Thirty Years War and lost his life in one of the battles

Question 2

Duke of Alva

1508 - 1582

Answer 2

Military leader sent by Philip n to pacify the Low Countries.

Question 3

Armada

1588

Answer 3

Spanish vessels defeated in the English Channel by an English fleet, thus preventing Philip II’s invasion of England.

Question 4

Vasco de Balboa

Answer 4

First European to reach the Pacific Ocean, 1513.

Question 5

Catherine de Medici

1547 - 1589

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Christopher Columbus

Answer 6

First European to sail to the West Indies, 1492.

Question 7

Concordat of Bologna

1516

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

Fernando Cortez

Answer 8

Conqueror of the Aztecs, 1519-1521.

Question 9

Defenestration of Prague

Answer 9

The hurling, by Protestants, of Catholic officials from a castle window in Prague, setting off the Thirty Years’ War.

Question 10

Bartholomew Diaz

Answer 10

First European to reach the southern tip of Africa, 1487-1488.

Question 11

Dutch East India Company

Answer 11

Government-chartered joint-stock company that controlled the spice trade in the East Indies.

Question 12

Edict of Nantes

Answer 12

(1598) - The edict of Henry IV that granted Huguenots the rights of public worship and religious toleration in France.

Question 13

Elizabeth I

1558 - 1603

Answer 13

Protestant ruler of England who helped stabilize religious tensions by subordinating theological issues to political considerations.

Question 14

Prince Henry the Navigator

Answer 14

Sponsor of voyages along West African coasts, 1418.

Question 15

Henry IV

1589 - 1610

Answer 15

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.”

Question 16

Huguenots

Answer 16

French Calvinists

Question 17

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 17

Circumnavigator of the globe, 1519-1522.

Question 18

Peace of Westphalia

Answer 18

1648 - The treaty ending the Thirty Years’ War in Germany; it allowed each prince-whether Lutheran, Catholic, or Calvinist-to choose the established creed of his territory.

Question 19

Philip ll

1556 - 1598

Answer 19

Son and successor to Charles V, ruling Spain and the Low
Countries.

Question 20

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 20

Conqueror of Peru, 1532-1533.

Question 21

St. Bartholemew’s Day

August 24, 1572

Answer 21

Catholic attack on Calvinists on the
marriage day of Margaret of Valois to Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV).

Question 22

Prince William of Orange

1572 - 1584

Answer 22

Leader of the seventeen provinces of the
Netherlands.

Question 23

Cardinal Richelieu

1585 - 1642

Answer 23

Minister to Louis XIII. His three point plan helped to send France on the road to absolute monarchy.
1.Break the power of the nobility,
2. Humble the House of Austria,
3. Control the Protestants