Review+Questions


 * Directions**: Answer the following questions on a separate piece of paper with and all information that applies.

What were the motives for the Portuguese explorers? Columbus? What country held political authority over the Dutch in the mid to late 16th century? What alliance existed during the Thirty Years War? Describe the Spanish Armada? Goals, purpose, successes, failures. Who during this time would be considered the international defender of Catholicism? What are the details to the Spanish colonial policy? Who were the first known explorers to North America? Who did the Spanish defeat to gain control of the spice trade? How and why is Spain impacted by inflation? How does the fall of Constantinople impact slavery? How were those of sub-Saharan Africa described? What was the commercial capital of the world? Who was impacted by large price increases of the 16th century? What caused these increases? How does war impact the finances of a country? How does the change from Charles V to Philip impact Europe? (All parts) What was the Spanish Armada? What was it used for? How was it defeated? How was divorce viewed in the 16th century? Prostitution? How was warfare in the sixteenth century different from that of the middle ages? What caused the end of serfdom in France? Describe the ever changing status of women during the 16th century. Why would the French support the German Princes during the Tirty Years' War? What is a viceroyalty? What were the 2 major drains on the French royal budget during the first half of the 16th century? What was done to afford the Habsburg-Valois war? What was the St. Batholomew's Day massacre? What was the Edict of Nantes? What were the 4 stages of the Thirty Years War? What did Columbian voyages change? How was divorce viewed in the 16th and 17th centuries?