European History Final Review Crossword
European History Final Review Crossword
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2. ____ the Conqueror was the last person to conquer England, starting with the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
4. Babylonian _____ was when the Popes resided in Avignon, France under the thumb of the French.
6. Louis XIV aka the ____ king built the Palace of Versailles partially to keep the nobility busy and peaceful.
7. This ruthless dictator slaughtered millions in pursuit of his goals in the USSR after the death of Lenin.
8. Prussian strongman who practiced realpolitik.
9. The Stuart king who had the most trouble with parliament and ended up losing his head in 1649.
11. The country who lost Alsace-Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian war and wanted it back in WW I.
15. The French Revolution raised up the Goddess _____ after it dumped the Catholic Faith in the 1790s.
16. One of the major causes of WW I , it involved an early arms race and large armies.
17. Founder of Calvinism and author of the Institutes of the Christian Religion.
18. A focus on human pursuits and activities and not exclusively on God during the Renaissance.
23. Perhaps most famous artist of the Renaissance period, who painted the Sistine Chapel.
24. ____ warfare was the rule in World War I as millions of soldiers died without any progress to show for their lives.
28. Opposite of rural - location of population growth during the Industrial Revolution.
31. The king who was beheaded in France in 1793.
32. Arachnophobia
34. Land, labor and _____ are three factors of production.
36. Napoleon's invasion of this country spelled the beginning of the end for his empire.
37. Number of wars fought and won by Prussia to unify Germany.
39. The Declaration of the Rights of ____ proclaimed liberty as man's basic right in France in 1789.
40. The ____ Revolution bankrupted France, leading to a revolution of her own.
41. The War of the _____ established the Tudors as the ruling family of England in the late 1400s.
42. The four foundations of the Middle Ages were the Roman, Barbarian, Catholic, and ______.
43. Location of the city states that arose and gained great power as trading centers in the late Middle Ages.
45. The Triple ____ consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
46. To formally deny an article of the Catholic Faith is an act of _____.
48. The French version of parliament, made up of three estates was the Estates ____.
49. Prayers, workers, and ____ were the three basic groups of people in the Middle Ages.
50. The leader of the Congress of Vienna who tried to turn back the changes brought by Napoleon.
51. The coolest teacher in the school, whose name rhymes with meat, seat, feet, and tweet, but not oliver.
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1. Ultimately Britain would give up her splendid ___ when she felt threatened by events in Europe.
3. Saints Patrick from the northwest, Benedict from the southeast, and Boniface who went east were monastics and ________ who spread the
Catholic Faith among the barbarians of Europe.
4. The series of wars for the Holy Lands preached by Pope Urban II when the Turks took over that area.
5. The Triple ____ consisted of Britain, France and Russia.
8. The powder keg before the First World War as the Ottoman Empire disintegrated and nationalism grew strong.
10. Austria-Hungary served ____ with an ultimatum after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
12. King Henry VIII of England at least wanted an _____ if he could not get a divorce.
13. The official Church of England.
14. England built up a strong ____ since the time of the Tudors.
16. Benito ____ was the fascist leader of Italy who aligned himself with Hitler in 1936.
17. This church was the most powerful institution in Europe in the Middle Ages.
19. 30 Years' ____ was a war of religion in the Holy Roman Empire.
20. Zero divided by the average I.Q. of all the students in this class times four-fifths.
21. The ____ Movement favored sheep over people and led to the Industrial Revolution.
22. Sale of _____ was the immediate cause of Martin Luther's 95 Theses in 1517.
25. The founder of the Carolingian Empire and the blip on the screen of the "Dark" Ages was _____.
26. Short guy who spread the ideas of the French Revolution across all of Europe.
27. Oath of ____ bound vassals to their lords in the feudal system.
29. Sprouted during the 100 Years' War, flourished under Napoleon, almost crushed by Metternich, back in Italy and Germany, led to WW I.
30. Two plus two, or 3.17652384657823675323257775 rounded to the nearest four.
33. The parliamentary army leader who ruled England during the Interregnum when there was no king.
35. The effort to gain colonies and an empire in order to grow powerful and boost the economy.
38. Society of ______ (aka Jesuits) was a leading counter-reformation force.
40. The first four letters of the alphabet, not to be confused with flypaper.
42. The favorite blade of the super-democratic government known as the Convention in France.
44. What pigs say.
46. Adolf ___ came to power in Germany by blaming the German failure in WW I on traitors and Jews.
47. James I (Stuart) of England claimed to rule by divine _____.