Study Guide: Age of Religious Wars
Test: __________________________
Test
This test will cover everything we talked about in class, including notes, handouts,
readings, and homework, as well as past and present day examples of why we are
studying this. If you are at all confused over what we have been discussing, get the notes
from someone, come to me, or look back over textbook.
Here are some of the main topics you will need to know for the test:
1) France
3)
A. Valois, Guise, and Bourbon
B. King Henry II
1. Edict of Chateaubriand
2. Habsburg-Valois War
C. Catherine de Medici
1. January Edict
2. St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
a. Coligny
D. Henry IV
1. Edict of Nantes
2) England and Spain
A. “Bloody Mary”
1. “Marian exiles”
4)
B. Elizabeth I
1. Religious Settlement
a. Act of Supremacy
b. Act of Uniformity
c. Book of Common Prayer
2. Mary, Queen of Scots
a. Mary of Guise
b. John Knox
c. Lord Darnley
d. plots against Elizabeth
C. Anglo-Spanish war
1. Netherlands
a. William of Orange
b. Union of Utrecht
2. Ireland
a. Earl of Tyrone
b. Plantations
c. Flight of the Earls
3. Spain
a. Sir Frances Drake
b. Spanish Armada
D. Elizabethan Age and Spanish Golden Age
1. Thomas More
2. Marlowe and Shakespeare
3. Cervantes
30 Years’ War
A. Prelude
1. League of Evangelical
Union
2. Catholic League
3. Habsburgs
B. Bohemian Revolt
1. Defenestration of Prague
C. Danish Intervention
1. Treaty of Lübeck
D. Swedish Intervention
E. French Intervention
F. Treaty of Westphalia
art
A. Mannerism
1. El Greco
2. Giorgio Vasari
B. Baroque
1. Peter Paul Rubens
2. Rembrandt
3. Jan Vermeer
4. Diego Velazquez
5. Claude Lorrain
6. Caravaggio
Know these main players as well:
Spain
France
Philip II
Francis II
Charles IX
Catherine de Medici
Gaspard de Coligny
Henry III
Henry IV
England
Edward VI
Lady Jane Grey
Mary I
Elizabeth I
Scotland
Mary I
John Knox
James VI
Papacy
Pius V
Gregory VIII
Sixtus V
Vocabulary:
Excommunication
regent
heresy
anti-Semitism
defenestrated
concordat
treason
Possible Essay Topics:
- Catholic vs. Protestant tensions in England and France
- Philip II of Spain and England
- Tudors and England in the modern world
diet
abdicate
auto de fe