| A | B |
|---|
| Martin Luther | Luteran Church |
| Renaissance | Secular |
| Galileo | telescope |
| Newton | calculus |
| Industrial Revolution | Began in Britain |
| French Revolution | Came AFTER American Revolution |
| WWI Stalemate and Trenches | Mainly in France |
| Versailles Treaty | Punished Germany |
| Scientific method | step-by-step approach emphasizing experimentation and observation |
| indulgence | pardon of sins |
| appeasement | making concessions to keep peace |
| divine rights | theory that a king's power came from God |
| absolute monarch | king with total authority over government and people |
| sacrement | sacred rites of the Church |
| Pax Romana | 200 years of peace in the Roman Empire |
| charter | document that guaranteed rights to towns |
| vassals | lesser lords in the feudal system |
| knights | mounted warriors |
| Plato | believed philosopher kings should rule |
| Alexander the Great | spread Greek culture throughout conquered lands |
| Roman contribution to civilization | justice system |
| Mediterranean | Sea south of Europe |
| North European Plain | Crosses France, Germany and Poland in Europe |
| Spain | borders both the Atlantic and Mediterranean |
| Reformation | caused by corrupt and worldly church practices |
| unions | created in response to poor working conditions |
| Great Depression | led to rise of dictators like Hitler |
| John Locke | political writer whose ideas influenced the American Revolution |
| One cause of WWI | nationalism |
| Holocaust | Nazi program of genocide |
| European Union | political and economic cooperation between most European nations |
| Rivers | where most European cities were built |
| Christianity | one cause of fall of Roman Empire |
| Black Death | improved lives of serfs |
| Italy and Germany | nations unified by nationalism |
| Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia | new nations created after WWI by breakup of Austrian Empire |
