History of Europe Questions

Jesuit missionary who propagated Christianity in India, Malacca, and Japan

Reason for Henry's execution of Anne Boleyn

Official act that marked England's break with the Roman church

City where Calvin's success enabled it to become the center of Protestantism

Chief rival of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

Result of the importation of silver from the New World to Spain

Luther's reliable source of truth and path of faith

Religious reformer burned at the stake

Difference between Zwingli's interpretation of the Lord's Supper and Luther's

Area where Luther's ideas were most readily accepted

Country that defeated the Spanish Armada

Abolished by the Reformation in Europe's Protestant community

Reforming religious organization of the late fifteenth century

Reason for Copernicus supporting the heliocentric conception of the universe

First astronomer to show that planetary orbits are elliptical

Galileo's idea that a body in motion continues in motion unless deflected by an external force

Rejection of science by organized religions in the seventeenth century

First European to make systematic observations of the heavens by telescope

Scientist who discovered the law stating that the volume of a gas varies with pressure

Creator of the three laws of planetary motion