The 1648 Codex

Renaissance & Reformation

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#6 · Historic Cities · Level 1

Florence

Florence
Giorgio Galeotti · CC BY 4.0

Italian city-state · medieval–Renaissance era · Tuscany, on Arno River

Florence was a Tuscan city-state dominated by the Medici family and site of the Pazzi Conspiracy and Ciompi Revolt.

The kit

  • Rise — Florence passed the Ordinances of Justice banning ancient nobility from politics and became dominated by merchant families.
  • Conflicts — Florence lost the Battle of Montaperti to Siena after betrayal by Bocca degli Abati during Guelph-Ghibelline wars.
  • Medici rule — Florence was ruled by the Medici family including Lorenzo the Magnificent, who patronized Botticelli and commissioned the Uffizi.
  • Religious upheaval — Florence saw Girolamo Savonarola's Bonfire of the Vanities burning art after Charles VIII's invasion seemed to fulfill prophecies.

Runs with

Council of Florence
Medici Family
dominated Florence's 15th-century politics and patronized its art open card →
San Lorenzo
Medici family church in Florence open card →
Girolamo Savonarola
briefly ruled Florence and ordered Bonfire of the Vanities open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

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The Albizzi family came to power in this city after Michele di Lando led a rebellion of wool carders, the Revolt of the Ciompi [“Chee-om-pi”].

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This city was ruled by the Albizzi family following a 1378 revolt by carders of wool. name this Tuscan city home to Savonarola and the Medici.

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The Medici family dominated 15th century politics in this Italian city-state.

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Supporters of the Pope plotted the Pazzi Conspiracy to overthrow this city’s ruling family.

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It was betrayed by Bocca degli Abati in a battle against its archrival Siena, leading to its defeat at Montaperti.

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As papal vicar, Angevin royal Robert the Wise intervened in a war in this city between Guelphs and Ghibellines.

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In the Battle of Montaperti, Siena’s Ghibellines defeated this city’s Guelphs.

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Girolamo Savonarola ruled briefly in this Tuscan city-state that was ruled by the Medici.

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Michele [mik-ay-lay] di Lando was the first leader of a group of angry wool workers in this city during the Revolt of the Ciompi.

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That event in this city was the Pazzi Conspiracy.

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Later, this city fought the War of the Eight Saints against Pope Gregory XI, leading to the end of the Avignon Papacy.

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Another museum in this city holds La Primavera and The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, who primarily worked in this city.

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Sandro Botticelli was patronized by a leader of this city known as Lorenzo the Magnificent. name this Italian city ruled by the Medici family.

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In this city, a campaign to burn art in what was known as the Bonfire of the Vanities was overseen by the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola.

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A family of art patrons in this city included Lorenzo the Magnificent and Cosimo I, who commissioned this city’s Uffizi Gallery. name this Italian city once controlled by the Medici family.

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This city lost one battle after the Count d’Arras led a charge of knights crying “Saint George” and a traitor chopped off the hand of its standard-bearer.

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A coin struck in this city with a fleur de lis on one side and John the Baptist on the other became the most popular coin for transactions in Europe in the 14th century.

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A popular republic was declared in this city after an invasion by Charles VIII of France seemed to fulfill earlier prophecies.

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Giuliano, a member of this city’s ruling family, died as part of an assassination attempt by the Pazzi family.

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This city was the site of the Pazzi conspiracy, and much of its art and literature was destroyed in the Bonfire of the Vanities, ordered by the monk Savonarola.

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A powerful family that ruled this city included men like Lorezno the Magnificent. :Name this Italian city once ruled by the Medici family. This city is the most populous one in Tuscany.

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The Signoria was the legislative body of this city-state, the site of the Ciompi Revolt and the Pazzi Conspiracy.

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Michele di Lando led an uprising of wool workers in this city in the 14th century known as the Ciompi . :Name this city on the Arno River that is home to the Uffizi Gallery.

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This city passed a law called the “Ordinances of Justice” which largely banned its ancient nobility from political participation.

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Paolo Uccello painted the defeat of a Sienese force by this city in The Battle of San Romano. Bandinelli depicted Neptune overlooking his oceanic domain in a fountain outside this city’s Palazzo Vecchio [[pah-LAH-tsoh VECK-yoh]].

Watch out: Siena (Florence's archrival, defeated Florence at Montaperti)
#31 · Historic Cities · Level 1

Milan

Milan
a rel="nofollow" Jiuguang Wang · CC BY-SA 3.0

Northern Italian city · Ancient–present · Lombardy, Italy

Milan is the capital of Lombardy, known to Romans as Mediolanum and ruled by the Visconti and Sforza families.

The kit

  • Ancient & medieval rule — Milan served as capital of the Western Roman Empire under Maximian before the capital moved to Ravenna.
  • Rise of dynasties — Milan saw Ottone's family take power after the Battle of Desio defeated the Della Torre family during Guelph-Ghibelline conflicts.
  • Sforza era — Milan's Golden Ambrosian Republic fell to condottiero Francesco Sforza, who signed the Peace of Lodi with Naples and Florence.
  • Renaissance & Napoleon — Milan was ruled by Ludovico il Moro, who commissioned Leonardo's Last Supper, and later became capital of Napoleon's Cisalpine Republic.

Runs with

Bishop
nonreligious Roman governor appointed as Milan's bishop by popular assent open card →
Constantine the Great
Italy
Milan is capital of Lombardy in northern Italy open card →
Nanda Empire

The ladder · 15 clues

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Ottone was an archbishop who founded the rule of one family in this city by winning the Battle of Desio and ousting the Della Torre family.

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Emperor Maximian ruled the Western Roman Empire from this city before moving the capital to Ravenna due to invading Visigoths.

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Swiss mercenaries betrayed the forces of this city to the forces of Louis XII in the Treason of Novara.

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Francis I was victorious at the battle of Marignano, which allowed him to capture this Italian city.

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Eventually was hung upside down outside a gas station in which largest Northern Itailan city?

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Twelve “captains and defenders of liberty” were elected to write this city’s laws when it was briefly reorganized into the Golden Ambrosian Republic following the fall of the Visconti family.

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This city fell under the rule of the patron Ottone’s [oh-toh-nay’s] family after he won the Battle of Desio against Napo della Torre.

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Following a war of succession in this city, members of the University of Pavia established the short-lived Golden Ambrosian Republic. That republic founded in this city was abolished by the condottiero-turned-duke, Francesco Sforza, who later signed the Peace at Lodi [[LOH-dee]] with Naples and Florence. name this northern Italian city, known to the Romans as Mediolanum.

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This city changed hands after the battle of Desio, but the winning family died out after Filippo Maria Visconti bore no heirs, leading to the creation of this city’s Golden Ambrosian Republic. The Peace of Lodi ended this city’s wars with Venice and established the Sforza family as the rightful rulers of this city. name this city in Northern Italy, the capital of Lombardy.

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The Sforza family ruled over this city, which once was capital of the Western Roman Empire. name this capital of Lombardy.

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The Sforzas ruled this Italian city during the latter half of the 15th century. This city is the modern capital of Lombardy.

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In this city in 1805, Napoleon, who was about to be crowned king, ordered the facade finished on a cathedral, and one of the spires was topped with a statue of him.

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City ruled by the Sforzas, where Leonardo da Vinci painted the Last Supper.

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After that republic fell, this city was ruled by the Sforzas. name this capital of Lombardy, a city in Northern Italy.

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City-state led by Ludovico Sforza at the start of the Wars.

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This city was also the capital of both the Cisalpine republic and another later Napoleonic Kingdom.

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The ideals of the Carbonari and Young Italy influenced this city’s 1848 Five Days uprising, which began with a boycott on Austrian tobacco.

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A nonreligious Roman governor was appointed to serve as a bishop of this city by popular assent before mediating a conflict involving Magnus Maximus.

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The Della Torre family made a bid to rule this city during the war between the Guelphs [] and Ghibellines [[GIH-bih-lines]] until their defeat at Desio [[DEH- syoh]].

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The first Margrave of this city was the ancestor of members of the Frankish Obertenghi family. 46 percent of this city’s population is thought to have died in a 1629- 1631 plague.

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This city was founded by Belloveso, a leader of the Insubri Celts, who legendarily saw a “half-woolen bear” that he then made the city’s symbol.

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A pair of Italo Calvino-inspired towers containing the Bosco Verticale, were completed in 2014 in this city’s Porta Nuova district.

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Louis XII was invited by Venice to conquer this city, although he was eventually forced out after the battles of Ravenna and Novara.

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This site of the Battle of Marignano was ruled by Ludovico il Moro, who commissioned Leonardo’s The Last Supper.

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This city was led by a man nicknamed “the Moor,” or “il Moro,” who patronized da Vinci’s The Last Supper.

Watch out: Visconti family rule ended when Filippo Maria bore no heirs, not immediately after Battle of Desio
#195 · Authors, Poets, and Playwrights · Level 1

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
bdi Attributed to John Taylor /span /a · Public domain

English playwright and poet · 1564–1616 · Stratford-upon-Avon, England

William Shakespeare was an English playwright who wrote tragedies like Hamlet and Macbeth, histories including Henry VI and Richard III, and comedies.

The kit

  • Major works — William Shakespeare wrote tragedies including Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear, histories about Kings Henry IV through VIII, and comedies like Twelfth Night.
  • Theater career — William Shakespeare was a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men and staged numerous plays at the Globe Theatre in London.
  • Historical plays — William Shakespeare wrote Richard III, which includes the famous line "My kingdom for a horse!" spoken at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
  • Legacy — William Shakespeare's works were collected into the First Folio by Henry Condell and John Heminges after his death in 1616.

Runs with

Elizabeth I
Henry
subject of history plays Henry IV, V, VI, VIII open card →
Julius Caesar
title character of Shakespeare's Roman tragedy open card →
Richard III
title character of Shakespeare's history play open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

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This man’s works include a worked named for a prince of Tyre, who shares his name with an Athenian statesman, Pericles.

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In one play by this author, he describes a “band of brothers” in the St. Crispin’s Day Speech, delivered by a royal character shortly before the Battle of Agincourt.

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Thomas Nashe may have co-written the Temple Garden scene with this author in a trilogy of plays in which nobles pluck red or white roses to support either the Duke of Somerset or Richard Plantagenet.

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In a play by this author, a man who gave away all of his money at a banquet finds a hoard of gold while living in a cave in the wilderness.

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This man's fictitious sister Judith is hypothesized to make a point about women writers in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.

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One hypothesis about this man is the Derbyite Theory, which notes the similarities between William Stanley’s life and fictional depictions.

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A play by this author opens with a Catholic martyr quelling rioters from Lombardy on Evil May Day.

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This husband of Anne Hathaway was a native of the town of Stratford upon Avon where he died in 1616.

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Another of this writer’s plays has characters based on Holinshed’s Chronicles and is considered cursed in theatre circles.

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This author wrote a play in which the images of an armored head, a bloody child, and a crowned child warn a king of Scotland that he cannot be harmed by a man “of woman born,” though the king is later killed by Macduff anyways. name this author of the historically inspired tragedies Timon of Athens and Macbeth.

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This man left only his "second-best bed" to his widow Anne Hathaway, but did leave women such roles as Cordelia, Beatrice, and Ophelia. name this author of King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet.

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This author of Sir Thomas More wrote a play whose protagonist describes himself as "determined to prove a villain" in a speech opening "Now is the winter of our discontent." name this playwright of histories including Henry VI and Richard III.

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This man wrote historical plays about Kings Henry IV, V, VI, and VIII and perhaps his most famous work is titled for a prince of Denmark. name this English author of works such as Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet.

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This member of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men staged numerous plays at the Globe Theater. name this “Bard of Avon,” an English playwright who wrote Julius Caesar and Hamlet.

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History plays like Richard III were written by this legendary English playwright.

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This author’s works were collected by Henry Condell and John Heminges into the First Folio.

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The Astor Place Riot was sparked by the rivalry between William Charles Macready and Edwin Forrest over their interpretations of one of this author's characters.

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In Democracy in America, de Tocqueville observed that every pioneer's hut he encountered had a copy of the Bible and at least one work by this author.

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Titus Andronicus is the bloodiest play of this dramatist who also wrote Twelfth Night and King Lear.

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The McGuffey Readers used many passages from this author to teach elocution to American students.

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A play by this author opens with the declaration “Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York.” Cannonfire during one of this man’s plays accidentally burned down the Globe Theatre.

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Playwright who gave Richard III a line at Bosworth Field by writing “My kingdom for a horse!”

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Christopher Marlowe may have helped this man write the first part of his trilogy on Henry VI.

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This man was a native of the town of Stratford upon Avon where he died in 1616.

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Actors like Edmund Kean became celebrities by touring America performing this author's plays. name this playwright who was wildly popular in the 19th-century United States, where companies frequently performed his plays Julius Caesar and Macbeth.

Watch out: Christopher Marlowe may have co-written Henry VI Part 1
#232 · Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors · Level 1

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg
Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY-SA 4.0

German printing press inventor · c. 1400–1468 · Mainz, Germany

Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press in 15th-century Mainz, revolutionizing mass communication and book production in Europe.

The kit

  • Rise — Johannes Gutenberg was born to a goldsmith who served the bishop of Mainz and initially invested in manufacturing holy mirrors for pilgrims to capture healing light.
  • Achievements — Johannes Gutenberg completed his 42-line Bible in 1455 using movable type, hand molds, and oil-based ink adapted from Roman wine-press technology.
  • Conflicts — Johannes Gutenberg lost his printing equipment to creditor Johann Fust after Fust successfully sued him in 1455 for unpaid debts.
  • Legacy — Johannes Gutenberg's press enabled mass production of works like Luther's Ninety-Five Theses and transformed libraries from rare-tome repositories into information sharers.

Runs with

printing
invented the movable-type printing press open card →
Bible
produced the 42-line Gutenberg Bible in 1455 open card →
ConstantinopleUniversity

The ladder · 15 clues

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answer some questions about the invention of the printing press:The printing press was invented by this goldsmith from Mainz, who used it to print his namesake bibles.

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Who invented a movable-type printing press to enable mass communication?

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This man created the B42 Bible, which was the first Western book to be produced with a movable-type printing press. Marshall McLuhan analyzed this man’s “galaxy” in a book that popularized the term “global village.”

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Hundreds of thousands of copies of Luther's Ninety-Five Theses were produced by this pioneering printer who developed the movable-type printing press.

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Pope Pius II viewed an object made by this person that is one of the most famous incunabula and was likely made of vellum.

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This man allegedly came up with his most famous invention at the same time as a Dutchman named Laurens Coster.

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Illuminated manuscripts went into decline after this craftsman invented the first European printing press with moveable type. He lost his equipment to his creditor Johann Fust after Fust successfully sued him in 1455.

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This German invented the movable type printing press in the 15th century.

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A few vellum copies were made of the namesake 42-line bible this man completed in 1455. name this European who invented the printing press.

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This person created a “42-line” version of the Vulgate using a device he invented in the city of Mainz.

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To get its anti-sorcery message out, copies of the Malleus Maleficarum were made with the movable type printing press invented by this craftsman from Mainz.

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Libraries shifted from repositories of rare tomes to sharers of useful information mostly thanks to this German, who introduced the printing press to Europe.

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This man produced a set of Bibles, less than fifty of which still exist, using movable type. name this German inventor who introduced the printing press to Europe.

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It took a year for this man to make the punches for a 42-line Bible. name this European often credited with inventing the printing press.

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This man was born to a goldsmith who served the bishop of Mainz.

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This man led a group that manufactured holy mirrors so that pilgrims could capture healing light from religious artifacts, but he mistimed the pilgrimage and went bankrupt.

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In the 19th century, a rival city to Strasbourg commissioned Bertel Thorvaldsen to design the first monument to this man, a one-time business partner of Johann Fust.

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In his last years, he was a patron of Adolf of Nassau. FTPE:Name this man, whose eponymous 42-line bible was the first major work to use his moveable type.

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The rationale for this man’s stylistic links to the Master of the Playing Cards match the reason for his estrangement from patron Johann Fust, his technique for copper engraving.

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American philanthropist James Lenox instructed customs officials to remove their hats upon seeing an object attributed to this man.

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This man’s invention of hand molds and an oil-based substance helped him create his most well-known invention.

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A portion of an invention by this man derived from a Roman-era device used to make olive oil and wine.

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Eric Marshall White’s recent biography documents this man’s career making souvenir mirrors for pilgrims.

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This man disastrously invested in mirrors designed to entrap and store the powers of holy relics during pilgrimages.

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The heirs of Andreas Dritzehn sued this man to overturn a contract that prevented them from inheriting a business.

Watch out: Laurens Coster, a Dutchman allegedly credited with inventing printing simultaneously
#315 · Religious Founders, Saints, and Reformers · Level 1

Martin Luther

Martin Luther
bdi Lucas Cranach the Elder /span /a · Public domain

German monk and reformer · 1483–1546 · Wittenberg, Saxony

Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation by posting his 95 Theses criticizing indulgences on a Wittenberg church door in 1517.

The kit

  • Rise — Martin Luther was an Augustinian monk who opposed Johann Tetzel's sale of indulgences and was protected by Frederick the Wise.
  • Achievements — Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German at Wartburg Castle and wrote the hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God."
  • Conflicts — Martin Luther debated Ulrich Zwingli at the Marburg Colloquy over Christ's presence in the Eucharist and faced excommunication at the Diet of Worms.
  • Legacy — Martin Luther wrote the virulently anti-Semitic On the Jews and Their Lies and Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants.

Runs with

church
opposed Catholic Church practices and was excommunicated open card →
Indulgences
criticized their sale in his 95 Theses open card →
Protestant Reformation
initiated it by posting the 95 Theses open card →
Ninety-Five Theses
posted them on Wittenberg church door in 1517 open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

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This man attempted to divest responsibility for causing a peasant war by writing Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants.

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In addition to “Von Himmel Hoch,” J.S. Bach wrote a cantata on the hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.” Those works were both originally written by what man?

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This leader asserted that the body of Christ was present in the Eucharist at the Marburg Colloquy, putting him at odds with Ulrich Zwingli.

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This man expressed his desire that “poisonous envenomed worms” be drafted into forced labor, and demanded synagogues be burned to the ground in his On the Jews and their Lies.

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This thinker’s controversial ideas earned him excommunication in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, and another of his works prompted the papal bull Exsurge Domine.

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Johann Agricola wrote an attack on this man who advocated the burning of Jewish schools and synagogues in his work On the Jews and Their Lies.

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This man received the protection of Frederick III of Saxony and debated Zwingli in the Marburg Colloquy.

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This religious reformer debated Ulrich Zwingli during the Marburg Colloquy. This reformer's posting of his 95 Theses on the door of a Wittenberg church kicked off the Protestant Reformation.

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This German Augustinian monk was excommunicated at the Diet of Worms for writing the 95 Theses and kicking off the Protestant Reformation.

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He was sheltered by Frederick the Wise at Wartburg Castle, where he translated the New Testament into German.

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This theologian wrote a pamphlet callled Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants to come out against the Peasants’ Revolt. He issued his 95 Theses in Wittenberg.

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The papal bull Exsurge Domine was issued against this man by Pope Leo X. He opposed Johann Tetzel before being compared to Jan Hus by Johann Eck.

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German monk who started the Protestant Reformation by nailing the 95 Theses to a church door.

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Criticisms of the sale of indulgences in the Ninety-Five Theses were written by this German monk-turned-reformer who started the Protestant Reformation.

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The author of the Ninety-Five Theses was this seminal figure of the Reformation.

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This man’s wife, Katharina von Bora, was forced to evacuate the Black Cloister during the Schmalkaldic War.

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This man equated the Ottomans to the “Scourge of God” in his work On War Against the Turks.

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This person suggested a seven-part plan to destroy the Jews in the virulently anti-Semitic treatise On the Jews and Their Lies.

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16. This religious reformer attacked the traditional seven sacraments in his The Babylonian Captivity. :Identify this reformer who posted his 95 theses against things like indulgences on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.

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This author of the 95 Theses was a critic of indulgences and other Church dogmas. He famously stated "Here I stand. I can do no other" at the Diet of Worms, and his doctrines initiated the Protestant Reformation.

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This man wrote a doctrinal statement of his faith called the Small Catechism. :Name this reformer who posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral.

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This man at times opposed the Cardinal Cajetan, Andreas Karlstadt, and Thomas Muntzer, the last of whom he criticized for leading the excessively violent Peasant's War.

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This person, the subject of “Decet Romanum Pontificem,” wrote a pamphlet entitled “Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants” and drafted the Schmalkald Articles.

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He was rebuffed by Cardinal Cajetan and goaded by the actions of Andrea Karlstadt into a disastrous debate with Johann Eck.

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This man called the members of an uprising he inspired “filthy swine;” that uprising he inspired was the Peasants’ War.

Watch out: Johann Eck (debated Luther and compared him to Jan Hus)
#317 · Religious Founders, Saints, and Reformers · Level 1

Girolamo Savonarola

Girolamo Savonarola
bdi Fra Bartolomeo /span /a · Public domain

Dominican friar · late 15th century · Florence

Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar who briefly ruled Florence after the Medici expulsion and organized the Bonfire of the Vanities.

The kit

  • Rise — Girolamo Savonarola welcomed Charles VIII's invasion and succeeded Piero the Unfortunate after begging the French king to spare Florence.
  • Rule — Girolamo Savonarola organized the Bonfire of the Vanities, burning sinful objects including Boccaccio's art and possibly Botticelli paintings.
  • Conflicts — Girolamo Savonarola was supported by the Piagnoni but opposed by the Palleschi and arrabbiati factions.
  • Death — Girolamo Savonarola was executed after his trial by fire was canceled by rain and he was excommunicated by Pope Alexander VI.

Runs with

Bonfire of the Vanities
organized it to burn sinful books and artwork open card →
Florence
ruled it after Medici expulsion open card →
Charles
welcomed his invasion as prophesied open card →
Pope Alexander VI
excommunicated by him, rejected his red hat open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

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This man, who was excommunicated by Pope Alexander VI, was executed after his trial by fire was canceled by rain.

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Followers of this man were opposed by a rival group known as the Palleschi [[pah- LEH-shee]].

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This man’s prophecy of a “Cyrus of the North” came true when Charles VIII invaded Italy.

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The “Weepers” supported this man who befriended the author of Oration on the Dignity of Man, Pico Della Mirandola.

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Answer the following about powerful Italian families during the Renaissance. :The excesses of the Italian Borgia family were targeted by this Dominican Friar who organized the 1497 Bonfire of the Vanities.

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Supporters of this man included the Piagnoni and Fra Domenico da Pescia, who were executed with him.

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The Palleschi were opposed by a group honoring the memory of this man, the Piagnoni, who lost the Battle of Gavinana a half-century after his death.

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Charles VIII’s invasion was welcomed by this man, who ordered the burning of sinful objects in the Bonfire of the Vanities. name this Dominican friar who preached extensively in Florence.

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This “man was ruined with his new order of things” according to Machiavelli, who referred to this man as being inadequately armed to enforce his beliefs.

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Piero the Unfortunate was succeeded by this man after he successfully begged Charles VIII of France to spare his city.

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Lorenzo de’ Medici was an early patron of this Dominican friar who came to rule Florence after the interruption of Medici power. He and his followers conducted the Bonfire of the Vanities.

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This man, who rejected the "red hat" offered to him by Pope Alexander VI, faced off against a hostile Signoria elected in March 1498.

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The Bonfire of the Vanities was organised by this Dominican friar who briefly ruled Florence after the end of the Medici family’s rule.

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The Medici family were briefly expelled by this Dominican friar who controlled Florence in the late 15th century and ordered the Bonfire of the Vanities.

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Another Dominican friar was this 15th leader of Florence who ordered the burning of hundreds of non-religious books and artwork in the Bonfire of the Vanities.

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This man’s work The Compedium of Revelations was sent to one pope after he declined to join his Holy League against one invader.

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In order to cleanse his city of sin, this man organized an event where Boccaccio’s art was burned in the Bonfire of the Vanities.

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This man’s enemies grouped into a faction known as the arrabbiati and arranged for riots against this man on Ascension Day.

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His supporters were known as piagnoni and formed a government called the Frateschi after the invasion of Charles VIII of France.

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This man was supported by the Piagnoni, but he fell from power after losing a challenge to walk through fire.

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This man’s unofficial political party, the Frateschi, successfully removed the longstanding punishment of exile.

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Sandro Botticelli may have burned some of his own paintings on the orders of this man.

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This man advocated placing images of Heaven and Hell in bedrooms and wearing the "eyeglasses of death" in his speech on "The Art of Dying Well." His youthful supporters were encouraged to snitch on their family as members of the "blessed bands." During the overthrow of this leader, the gates of San Marco were set on fire by rioters angry over the cancellation of a public trial-by-fire.

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This leader’s lieutenant, Fra Silvestro Maruffi, deputized children as a police force to enforce his bans on drinking, homosexuality, and gambling. :Name this leader who lost popularity in his home city after refusing to join the Holy League against Charles VIII’s invasion of Italy and failing to participate in a public trial by fire.

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This person proclaimed Charles VIII’s invasions as confirmation of his prophecies. :Name this radical Dominican friar who lost popular favor after his trial by fire was quenched by a sudden rainfall. Supported by zealots nicknamed piagnoni , this man ruled as a dictator with the support of his frateschi party.

Watch out: Fra Domenico da Pescia (executed with him)
#318 · Religious Founders, Saints, and Reformers · Level 1

Huldrych Zwingli

Huldrych Zwingli
bdi Hans Asper /span /a · Public domain

Swiss Protestant Reformer · 1484–1531 · Zurich, Switzerland

Huldrych Zwingli was a Swiss Protestant Reformer who led the Reformation in Zurich and died fighting in the Second War of Kappel.

The kit

  • Rise — Huldrych Zwingli gained controversy by defending consumption of sausages during Lent and led a petition to abolish clerical celibacy.
  • Achievements — Huldrych Zwingli published the Sixty-Seven Articles affirming the Eucharist is symbolic and served as priest of the Zurich Grossmünster.
  • Conflicts — Huldrych Zwingli debated Martin Luther at the Marburg Colloquy over whether the Eucharist represents or literally becomes Christ's body.
  • Death & succession — Huldrych Zwingli died fighting in the Second War of Kappel on October 11, 1531, and was succeeded by Heinrich Bullinger.

Runs with

Switzerland
led the Protestant Reformation in German-speaking Switzerland open card →
Eucharist
argued the Eucharist is symbolic, not literal transubstantiation open card →
Martin Luther
debated Luther at Marburg Colloquy over Eucharist theology open card →
church
opposed Catholic practices including clerical celibacy and Lenten fasting open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

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This theologian penned an allegorical poem against involvement in wars known as “The Labyrinth.” This theologian affirmed that the Eucharist is symbolic in the Sixty Seven Articles.

H

Swiss Reformation leader who led Protestants against Catholics in the Wars of Kappel.

H

This Zurich based Protestant leader debated Luther. He died fighting for Zurich during some religious wars.

H

Heinrich Bullinger succeeded this man after his death in the Second Kappel War.

H

This leader of the Swiss Reformation fornicated with a barber’s daughter, which caused problems for him in trying to become a priest in Zurich. At the Marburg Colloquy he debated with Luther over the Eucharist.

H

After marrying Anna Reinhard, this man led a petition to abolish celibacy from the clergy.

H

This man first gained controversy after defending the consumption of sausages during Lent.

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This priest of the Zurich Grossmunster was killed in the Second War of Kappel. He opposed Luther at the Marburg Colloquy.

M

Luther differed in opinion over the nature of Christ, be it real or symbolic, during the Eucharist with this Swiss Theologian, whom Luther debated with at the Marburg Colloquy

M

Was the Swiss theologian denied the Real Presence in communion?

M

This contemporary of Martin Luther was a prominent leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland. He would later separate from Luther.

M

Though not denying the Real Presence, this man disputed that the bread and wine literally become Christ's body and blood at a colloquy in Marburg with a German counterpart. name this people's priest at the Grossmunster of Zurich who began the Reformation in German-speaking Switzerland.

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At the Marburg Colloquy, this man argued with Martin Luther over the nature of the Eucharist. name this Swiss Reformation leader from Zurich.

E

This man debated Martin Luther at the Marburg Colloquy, arguing that the Eucharist only represents the blood and body of Christ. He preached in Zurich.

E

This man was killed during the Kappel Wars, which started when an alliance of Forest Cantons was formed against him.

10 more clues from the record
H

In his sermon "Regarding the Choice and Freedom of Foods," this preacher argued that Christians do not have to fast during Lent in defense of having Christoph Froschauer (rhymes with "rush hour") serve him smoked sausages.

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His ideas were popularized due to the efforts of his son-in-law, Rudolf Gwalther, and printer Christopher Froschauer, and a pivotal event involving this man saw him speak on the arrival of Bernhardin Sanson.

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He published the Sixty Seven Articles, which included his firm insistence that the act of the Eucharist is clearly symbolic, a view which would clash with Luther’s doctrine of the real presence at the Marburg Colloquy.

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A few years after the First War of Kappel ended, the conflict revived. In that conflict, this Zurich pastor and Marburg Colloquy attendee died in a lopsided October 11, 1531, battle.

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His closest allies were his friend Leo Jud and eventual successor Heinrich Bullinger, who joined him in serving sausage during Lent in clear defiance of the church.

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Though his influence had begun to wane following a "Land Peace" in 1529, his participation in the brief Second Kappel War in defense of his city led to his death.

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This man died while fighting against Hans Jauch, and he composed the hymn Pestlied, which describes his sickness. :Identify this leader of the Swiss Reformation.

H

This city councilor oversaw a drowning in the Limmat (lee-MAHT) that made Felix Manz (MANHTS) the Radical Reformation's first martyr.

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His account of surviving a plague can be found in his poem Pestlied, and his opposition to another religious movement can be found in his Whoever Causes Unrest.

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A pro-papal chaplain at the battle of Novara, he described his near death in a plague in his Pestlied, and condemned mercenary service in The Ox and The Labyrinth.

Watch out: Martin Luther (also debated Eucharist theology but held opposing view of Real Presence)
#326 · Religious Founders, Saints, and Reformers · Level 1

Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Saint Ignatius of Loyola
span lang="en" Anonymous /span Unknown author · Public domain

Spanish priest and founder · 1491–1556 · Spain and Rome

Saint Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish nobleman who founded the Jesuit order after a spiritual awakening following his wounding at Pamplona.

The kit

  • Rise — Saint Ignatius of Loyola served as a knight under the Duke of Najera until a ricocheting cannonball shattered his right leg at the Battle of Pamplona.
  • Spiritual transformation — Saint Ignatius of Loyola experienced a spiritual awakening after his injury and laid down his military equipment at the shrine of the Virgin of Montserrat.
  • Achievements — Saint Ignatius of Loyola wrote the Spiritual Exercises after living in a cave near Manresa for eleven months, dividing the work into four weeks.
  • Legacy — Saint Ignatius of Loyola co-founded the Society of Jesus with Francis Xavier and Peter Faber, becoming its first Superior General.

Runs with

Jesuits
founded the Society of Jesus with Francis Xavier and Peter Faber open card →
Rome
had a vision of God saying 'I will be propitious to you at Rome' open card →
Jesus
Spiritual Exercises details four weeks covering segments of Christ's life open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

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This man spent several months in a cave near the town of Manresa. :Name this Superior General, best known for a set of meditations divided into four weeks, called the Spiritual Exercises.

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The Jesuit order was founded by this Spanish nobleman, who wrote his Spiritual Exercises after living in a cave near Manresa for more than a year.

H

This man experienced a spiritual awakening after being wounded at the Battle of Pamplona, and he later wrote a book after his time living with the Benedictine Monastery in Montserrat called The Spiritual Exercises.

H

One of the best known Basques in history is this sainted author of the Spiritual Exercises who co-founded the Jesuit order with another Basque, Francis Xavier.

H

A Peter Paul Rubens depiction of this man shows him holding a book and his right hand outstretched while a ray of light is shining upon him.

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This man’s most important work centers on the examination of conscience. :Name this man who wrote a work that details an ideal retreat, which is laid out in four weeks, each of which details a segment of the life of Christ, The Spiritual Exercises.

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This person had a vision of God telling him "I will be propitious to you at Rome" before he experienced an awakening while praying in a cave near Manresa.

H

Name these random theologians, .In Manresa, this man began his main work, but soon met Peter Faber and Francis Xavier and founded the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits.

H

Miguel Landivar spread rumors that this figure was an escaped convict to support Agostino Mainardi, who accused this person of heresy.

H

This man laid down his military equipment while visiting the shrine of the Virgin of Montserrat.

M

In one letter, this man wrote, "Ite, inflammate, omnia," or "Go set the world on fire." This man was wounded at the Battle of Pamplona when a ricocheting cannonball shattered his right leg.

M

This man served as a knight under the Duke of Najera, and he was injured by a cannonball at the Battle of Pamplona.

M

He created an organization based on his religious awakening that included Francis Xavier. name this founder of the Jesuits.

M

Urban VIII signed the papal bull canonizing this man, whose injuries during the Italian War prompted a faith binge that involved seeing a vision at the Our Lady of Montserrat shrine, writing the Spiritual Exercises, and founding the Jesuits.

E

After returning from a pilgrimage to Montserrat, this man shut himself in a cave for eleven months and wrote his best-known work, which is divided into four "weeks." The Spiritual Exercises was written by this Spanish priest from Loyola who co-founded the Jesuits.

#333 · Religious Founders, Saints, and Reformers · Level 1

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Father Claude Chauchetière, S.J. · Public domain

First Native American saint · 1656–1680 · New York

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha was an Algonquin-Mohawk Catholic convert canonized in 2012, the first Native American saint.

The kit

  • Rise — Saint Kateri Tekakwitha survived a smallpox epidemic that left her with facial scars and was baptized as Catherine.
  • Achievements — Saint Kateri Tekakwitha was known as the "Lily of the Mohawks" and the "First Iroquois Virgin" for her devotion.
  • Death & succession — Saint Kateri Tekakwitha died on Holy Wednesday in 1680, after which her facial scars miraculously faded.
  • Legacy — Saint Kateri Tekakwitha was canonized by Benedict XVI in 2012 after appearing to Marie-Therese Tegaiaguenta following her death.

Runs with

Henry
York
lived in what is now New York state open card →
Spain
Mohawk
Algonquin-Mohawk woman known as Lily of the Mohawks open card →

The ladder · 7 clues

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Three of Henry’s wives shared this first name. Henry’s first wife, a princess of Aragon, had this name, as did two wives from the Parr and Howard families.

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The first was a relative of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, the fifth was executed after sixteen months for adultery, and the last survived by outliving Henry.

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Much of this person's adult life was influenced by a meeting with Jacques de Lamberville, a French Jesuit who taught her the catechism.

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This woman appeared to her friend, Marie-Therese Tegaiaguenta, by knocking on the wall following her death on Holy Wednesday in 1680.

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This Iroquois woman, known as The Lily of the Mohawks, was the first Native American to be canonized and was baptized as Catherine. Although she survived a smallpox epidemic, all of her facial scars miraculously faded after her death.

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This saint, given a birth name translating to "she who bumps into things," was canonized by Benedict the Sixteenth in 2012.

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An Algonquin-Mohawk Catholic convert this woman from what is now New York state, known as the "First Iroquois Virgin".

#334 · Religious Founders, Saints, and Reformers · Level 1

John Knox

John Knox
Theodore Beza, Icones (1580) · Public domain

Scottish Protestant reformer · 16th century · Scotland

John Knox was a Scottish Calvinist theologian who founded Presbyterianism and led the Protestant Reformation in Scotland.

The kit

  • Rise — John Knox served as bodyguard to George Wisehart before French forces captured him and made him a galley slave for two years.
  • Achievements — John Knox wrote the First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, attacking female monarchs Mary I and Mary of Guise.
  • Achievements — John Knox founded Presbyterianism and wrote the Book of Discipline to establish the organizational structure of the Church of Scotland.
  • Conflicts — John Knox came into conflict with Mary, Queen of Scots over her Catholic faith after returning from Geneva to lead Scotland's reformation.

Runs with

Scotland
led the Protestant Reformation in Scotland open card →
church
founded Presbyterianism and the Church of Scotland open card →
Mary
attacked Mary I and Mary of Guise; clashed with Mary, Queen of Scots open card →
women
wrote First Blast against female monarchs' biblical legitimacy open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

H

This man considered kneeling during communion idolatrous, leading to the Black Rubric. French forces under Leone Strozzi [[leh-OH-neh STROH-tsee]] captured this man and turned him into a galley slave.

H

Contemporary narratives by Thomas Smelton and Richard Bannatyne give an account of the last days of this man’s life.

H

This man translated the First Helvetic Confession into English and served as a bodyguard in defense of George Wisehart.

H

This man wrote the five- volume tome The History of the Reformation in Scotland.

H

His public religious and political stances became solidified during a dinner given by his friend Erskine of Dun, though they had already been hardened after his purported role in influencing the murder of Cardinal Beaton and his subsequent imprisonment and exile.

H

After returning from Geneva, he never completed his two planned sequels to a work which caused his falling-out with Elizabeth I by claiming that the Bible forbade women from ruling over men, known as the First Blast of the Trumpet.

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Among his works are a “History,” of a religious movement in his nation completed by George Buchanan, and the chief contribution to the first and second Book of Discipline, which laid out organization for his church.

M

This man attacked Mary I and stated that female monarchs went against biblical teachings in the pamphlet The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.

M

This man wrote a "first blast of a trumpet" criticizing the unnatural "monstrous regiment of women," targeting Mary I of England. name this Scottish reformer, the founder of Presbyterianism.

M

This man briefly preached to a group of Marian exiles in Frankfurt and claimed that Charles V was "no less enemy to Christ than was Nero." In Stirling, this man gave the sermon at James VI's [[the Sixth's]] coronation. name this Scottish Calvinist theologian and founder of Presbyterianism.

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One phase of the Rough Wooing was sparked by the murder of the Scottish cardinal David Beaton, which spelled trouble for this clergyman who would later found Presbyterianism and led the reformation of Scotland.

M

This Scottish Calvinist created the Presbyterian Church in his home country, and came into conflict with Mary, Queen of Scots over her Catholic faith.

M

This influential member of the “kirk” preached for what became Presbyterianism. identify this Protestant reformer who was active in Scotland.

M

This thinker is credited with adding the black rubric to the Book of Common Prayer.

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Better known are his attacks on the “dregs of Popery” in his “Brief Exhortation to England” and his vicious attack on Mary of Guise and Mary Tudor in First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.

10 more clues from the record
H

This clergyman became a galley slave after the French besieged St. Andrews and later studied Reformed theology under John Calvin. :Name this Scottish Protestant reformer, the founder of Presbyterianism.

H

This man tutored the children of Hugh Douglass and John Cockburn, with whom he moved into the castle of St. Andrews, just months after its owner had been murdered there.

H

John Calvin had a famous meeting with this Scottish clergyman. He’s the founder of Presbyterianism and published the first and second Book of Discipline to set up the structure of the Church of Scotland.

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Upon his release, this man held a position in the court of Edward VI, where he acted as a reforming influence upon Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer.

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This man included the section "Why the Mediator Had to Be True God and True Man" in a twenty-one-part confession that he wrote in 1560.

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Earlier, he had violated canon law by carrying a two-handed greatsword while serving as bodyguard to George Wisehart.

H

This man spent two years working as a galley slave on a French ship after the murder of David Beaton.

H

This man had earlier served as a chaplain to the murderers of that castle-owner, Cardinal David Beaton.

H

A speech he gave against Mary of Guise prompted riots in Perth by supporters of the Lords of the Congregation.

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This man developed an unrealized plan for providing systematic relief to the poor in his Book of Discipline.

Watch out: David Beaton (Scottish cardinal whose murder Knox was linked to and whose murderers Knox served as chaplain)
#335 · Religious Founders, Saints, and Reformers · Level 1

John the Baptist

John the Baptist
bdi Titian /span /a · Public domain

Jewish preacher and prophet · 1st century CE · Judea

John the Baptist was a Jewish prophet who baptized Jesus in the River Jordan and was beheaded by Herod Antipas.

The kit

  • Rise — John the Baptist was the son of Zechariah and Elizabeth and is believed by Christians to be the second coming of Elijah.
  • Preaching — John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey and wore a robe of camel's hair while preaching in the wilderness.
  • Baptism of Jesus — John the Baptist immersed Jesus in the River Jordan, an event depicted in numerous artworks including the Ghent Altarpiece.
  • Death — John the Baptist was beheaded by Herod at the request of Salome, who is often shown holding his head on a platter.

Runs with

Jesus
baptized Jesus in the Jordan River open card →
DamascusFlavius Josephus
church
honored as a saint in church celebrations like Festa Junina open card →

The ladder · 12 clues

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In Bahai, the Bab is frequently annalogized to this man.

H

A John Everett Millais painting depicts this man on the far right carrying a basin of water to wash another man's wound.

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Depictions of this man as an adult often show him wearing a robe of camel’s hair, including one to the right of the central figure on the Ghent Altarpiece.

H

Part of this man is shown floating in a halo in a Symbolist painting by Gustave Moreau.

H

Identify the following relating to the plays of the "bilious" Henrican Protestant polemicist John Bale, .Bale wrote 14 books on this man by his own count. He is the last Biblical figure to appear in God's Promise and he condemns a Pharisee and a Sadducee, stand-ins for Catholics, in a play named for this man's Preachynge.

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A 1540 work by Titian depicts this man holding a staff as a lamb sits by his right foot, while a Bruegel work depicts a crowd listening to this man preaching.

M

Historically, the Gnostic Mandaean religion has been called the "Christians of" this man.

M

The Brazilian Festa Junina celebration honors Saint Anthony, Saint Peter, and this other saint, for whom the holiday is often named. Jesus followed this son of Elizabeth, who dunked Jesus in a river.

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This man was beheaded by Herod at the request of Salome. name this son of Zechariah and Elizabeth, who immersed Jesus in the River Jordan.

E

This man is described as eating locusts and wild honey and is believed by Christians to be the second coming of Elijah.

E

Leonardo da Vinci painted this man smiling while pointing up at the sky, and another representation of this man depicts Salome holding a platter.

E

This man was beheaded by (*) Herod at the request of Salome.

Watch out: Confused with John the Apostle (different Johns in the New Testament)
#346 · Other Families and Dynasties · Level 1

House of Tudor

House of Tudor
Sodacan · CC BY-SA 3.0

English royal dynasty · 1485–1603 · England

House of Tudor was the English royal dynasty that ruled from Henry VII's victory at Bosworth Field through Elizabeth I's death.

The kit

  • Rise — House of Tudor claimed the throne after Richard III was killed at Bosworth Field in 1485, ending the Wars of the Roses.
  • Achievements — House of Tudor ended bastard feudalism by requiring royal licenses for armed retainers and established the powerful Star Chamber court.
  • Conflicts — House of Tudor faced the Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion against monastery dissolution and repulsed Scotland at Flodden Field.
  • Legacy — House of Tudor ended in 1603 when Elizabeth I died childless, leading James VI of Scotland to begin the Stuart Dynasty.

Runs with

Henry VII
founded the dynasty, defeated Richard III, put down pretenders Warbeck and Simnel open card →
Henry VIII
signed Act of Supremacy, executed Anne Boleyn, wrestled Francis I at Field of Cloth of Gold open card →
Richard III
killed at Bosworth Field, his death ended Plantagenet rule and began Tudor dynasty open card →
Elizabeth I
final Tudor monarch, defeated Spanish Armada, died childless ending the dynasty open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

H

Royal English house to which Henry belonged.

H

This family of Welsh origin claimed the throne of England after Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

H

One member of this house repulsed a Scottish invasion at the battle of Flodden Field and formed the powerful court known as the Star Chamber.

H

The Pilgrimage of Grace targeted another member of this house who attempted to dissolve the monasteries.

H

ended when Elizabeth I died childless?

H

Though that progenitor, Owen, was executed after the Yorkists’ victory at Mortimer Cross, he became grandfather of the first monarch from this family, who put down the pretenders Perkin Warbeck and Lambert Simnel.

H

The first king of this dynasty established trade with Spain through the Treaty of Medina del Campo and ordered the beheading of a 14-year-old for backing the pretender Perkin Warbeck.

M

House aligned with the House of Lancaster, to which Henry VII, the Wars’ eventual victor, belonged.

M

The pace of enclosure sped up under this English dynasty, whose first king was Henry VII.

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This family’s path to the throne began with a clerk of the wardrobe who was secretly married to Catherine of Valois after she was widowed.

M

The last monarch of this family never married or produced an heir, leading James VI of Scotland to begin the Stuart Dynasty at its end. what British dynasty included Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I?

M

That king from this house also executed his second wife, Anne Boleyn. name this royal house of England that gained the throne after the Wars of the Roses and included Henry VIII.

M

The final member of this dynasty claimed to have "the heart and stomach of a king" and defeated the Spanish Armada. name this family name of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

E

The Act of Supremacy was signed by a member of this house to establish himself as head of the Anglican Church after failing to receive an annulment from Catherine of Aragon. name this English royal house of Henry VIII.

E

Henry VII’s victory over Richard III ended the House of Plantagenet and began this English royal house that also included Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

10 more clues from the record
H

The pillory was one of the favorite punishments used by this English dynasty’s court of the Star Chamber. Other punishments like being boiled alive and beheading were used by this dynasty’s Henry VIII.

H

A ruler of this dynasty ordered a canvas palace complete with wine fountains to be built for a lavish diplomatic meeting, during which he wrestled Francis I on the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

H

After the English Wars of the Roses, an English family aligned with the Lancasters gained control of the English throne. :Name this dynasty founded in 1485 and dissolved in 1603, which was succeeded by the House of Stuart.

H

Mary belong to this royal house established by her grandfather Henry VII. It supplanted the House of York after the death of Richard III at the end of the War of the Roses.

H

This dynasty’s rise and rule is the subject of the thesis and best-known works of conservative historian David Starkey, including a BBC documentary.

H

The Star Chamber was established by Henry VII, a king of this dynasty. This dynasty came to power after the defeat of Richard III at Bosworth Field.

H

A monarch of this dynasty agreed to reduce tariffs on Spanish goods and obtained a wife for his son in the Treaty of Medina del Campo.

H

Historians generally credit this dynasty with ending “bastard feudalism” by requiring a royal license to have armed retainers.

H

This dynasty abandoned its support for Brittany in order to get France to extradite a rebel against it via the Treaty of Etaples.

H

Another member of this dynasty had the Marquess of Dorset attempt to take Aquitaine and later sieged Tournai.

Watch out: House of York (the rival dynasty defeated by the Tudors at Bosworth Field)
#347 · Other Families and Dynasties · Level 1

Medici Family

Medici Family
Heralder · CC BY-SA 3.0

Florentine banking dynasty · 15th–18th centuries · Florence, Tuscany

Medici Family was a Florentine banking dynasty that produced two popes and ruled Florence through members like Cosimo and Lorenzo the Magnificent.

The kit

  • Rise — Medici Family first rose to power in Tuscany under the banker Cosimo, who returned from exile to expel the Albizzi and Strozzi families.
  • Achievements — Medici Family produced Popes Leo X and Clement VII, with Leo X authoring the bull Exsurge Domine against Luther.
  • Conflicts — Medici Family survived the Pazzi Conspiracy assassination plot during an Easter service that killed Giuliano and led to Archbishop Salviati's execution.
  • Legacy — Medici Family's coat of arms features six spheres called palle on a gold shield and they held a monopoly on alum mining in Tolfa.

Runs with

Florence
ruled Florence as banking family and political dynasty open card →
San LorenzoCouncil of FlorenceGirolamo Savonarola

The ladder · 15 clues

H

One member of this family authored the bull Exsurge Domine as Pope Leo X. Another of its members was killed by an assassination plot orchestrated by the rival Pazzi family.

H

An attempt to take power from this family by assassinating several of its key members was known as the Pazzi Conspiracy.

H

This family’s coat of arms features six spheres called palle on a gold shield.

H

An early member of this family helped suppress the revolt of wool-carders called Ciompi.

H

One member of this family refused to annul Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon.

H

One man in this family was exiled to Venice after his city’s failure to conquer Lucca and later exiled the Albizzi and Strozzi families on his return.

H

Popes from this family presided over the Council of Trent and the start of the Protestant Reformation.

M

Popes Clement VII and Leo X were members of this family, which was targeted by the aforementioned Pazzi Conspiracy.

M

Archbishop Francesco Salviati was executed for his role in one plot against a member of this family, which resulted in the death of Giulano, the Pazzi Conspiracy.

M

Pope Leo X was a member of this family, as was Lorenzo the Magnificent.

M

Popes such as Clement VII and Leo X were members of this family, and Giuliano, the brother of one ruler from this family, was killed in the Pazzi Conspiracy.

M

The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was partly instigated by Catherine of this family. name this Italian banking family which controlled Florentine politics.

E

Popes from this family include Clement VII and Leo X, and this family included Cosimo and Lorenzo the Magnificent. name this family of Grand Dukes from Florence.

E

Banking family, with members like Cosimo and Lorenzo, who ruled Florence.

E

POT-see) Conspiracy and first rose to power in Tuscany under the banker Cosimo. identify this political family which ruled Florence through such members as Lorenzo the Magnificent.

10 more clues from the record
H

Pius II granted this family a monopoly on alum mining in Tolfa.

H

One member of this family was elected as Pope Leo X. :Name this prominent Renaissance banking family, whose leaders included Cosimo and Lorenzo “Il Magnifico.”

H

Another woman with this last name married the former lover of Gabrielle d’Estrées and led the Day of the Dupes revolt.

H

An assassination attempt was made on two members of this family by the rival Salviati and Pazzi families during an Easter service.

H

The Queen Mother of French king Charles IX was from this family and supposedly instigated the anti-Huguenot riot known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

H

The Albizzi attempted to curb the influence of this family by expelling one of their leading members, but that man, Cosimo, returned the next year.

H

This family overthrew Piero Sonderini’s government in 1512, after they had earlier been evicted from their city by Charles VIII of France.

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This family abolished the post of Gonfaloniere of Justice.

H

A 1588 firman issued by Murad III allowing the sale of printed books survives in an Arabic copy of Euclid’s Elements published by this merchant family’s “Oriental Press.” This Florentine family’s Tolfa alum mines competed an Ottoman monopoly.

H

Savonarola came to power by overthrowing this ruling political dynasty of Florence. From its origins as a banking family, this dynasty rose to produce two popes and the lavish patron of the arts Lorenzo the Magnificent.

#453 · Named Literary Works · Level 1

The Prince

The Prince
bdi Niccolò Machiavelli /span /a · Public domain

political treatise · 1513 (published 1532) · Florence

The Prince is Niccolò Machiavelli's treatise on statecraft arguing rulers should prioritize power over morality and be feared rather than loved.

The kit

  • Core argument — The Prince argues that rulers must be cunning like a fox and powerful like a lion to maintain power effectively.
  • Famous maxims — The Prince declares that it is better to be feared than loved and that men forget their father's death more easily than losing their inheritance.
  • Key examples — The Prince uses Cesare Borgia as a model ruler and praises his execution of Remirro de Orco as exemplary statecraft.
  • Dedication & purpose — The Prince was dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici and discusses virtù, fortuna, and methods for conquering and maintaining states.

Runs with

Niccolò Machiavelli
Machiavelli wrote it after torture, retiring to his estate open card →
Borgia family
Cesare Borgia served as direct inspiration and primary example open card →
the Fronde
no connection evident in clues open card →
Bishop
no connection evident in clues open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

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It claims that the title figure must be both cunning like a fox and powerful like a lion, as evidenced by the success of Cesare Borgia.

H

In chapter 19 of this work, Septimius Severus is said to emulate both a lion and a fox.

H

This work is often compared to its author's less known work, Life of Castruccio Castracani.

H

Mary Dietz argues that this work was not meant to be satirical.

H

This work extols Agathocles of Syracuse and Oliveretto Euffreducci.

H

This book notes that “men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their inheritance.” This book encourages risk-taking by saying that “fortune is a woman; and it is necessary, if one wants to hold her down, to beat her.” The first half of this book is an analysis of new, hereditary, and ecclesiastical states.

H

In Chapter XVII of this work, its author describes men as “ungrateful, fickle, dissembling, [and] anxious to flee danger,” while Chapter XXII states that the intellect to comprehend things independently is the most excellent kind of intellect.

H

Chanakya's Arthashastra is often compared to this Machiavelli work, since they both discuss how a monarch should rule. Unlike this work, the Arthashastra focuses on maintaining general prosperity, not just monarchical power.

M

This work suggests that the title figure ought to emulate the lion and the fox. :Name this political tract that argues that it is better for one to be feared than loved.

M

In this work, the execution of Remirro de Orco by Cesare Borgia is given as an example of conquest by fortune.

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Alexander VI is often used as a good example of the title figure of this political treatise about how the title ruler can obtain and maintain power, written by Niccolò Machiavelli.

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Cesare Borgia served as the direct inspiration for this early modern political treatise, an analysis of statecraft and government written by Niccolò Macchiavelli.

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It praises Cesare Borgia and also advises rulers to be both a fox and a lion.

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This work declares that it is better to be feared than loved. name this political treatise written for one of the Medicis by Niccolo Machiavelli.

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This work was addressed to the Duke of Urbino, Lorenzo de' Medici, and uses the metaphors of the lion and fox. name this political treatise by Machiavelli.

10 more clues from the record
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The Renaissance is famous for, among other things, a blossoming of literature. :In the 16th century, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a book with this title which describes how, sometimes, the ends justify the means. It is named after a royal title.

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One chapter in this work mentions several options for persons who conquer republican states, and a later chapter in this work suggests that its author’s sponsor should use the power of the Papacy to conquer Italy.

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This work advises the title figure to be cruel quickly and to cause a great injury. :Name this work of political philosophy on monarchic rule by the author of Discourses on Livy, which is dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici.

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This book uses Maximilien I as a negative example who could not tell between good and bad advice, and it also mentions three types of military forces.

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This work discusses the concepts of Virtù and Fortuna. :Name this work which at one point essentially says that the end justifies the means. It is by the same author of the Discourses on Livy and is considered a work of realpolitik.

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After his torture, Machiavelli retired to his estate and wrote this work, his most famous, dedicated to Lorenzo II de Medici. In it he describes the methods by which the title figure may maintain his reputation.

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Dedicated to Lorenzo de’ Medici, this work does not concern itself with republican regimes but does offer suggestions on how to deal with insurrections and alliances.

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Chapter twenty of this work concludes that the best fortress is to not be hated, while chapter nineteen examines the downfall of Roman emperors like Pertinax.

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He also states that while good leaders are virtuous, in reality the ones who distance themselves from ethics rule best.

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It asserts that it is better for one to have barons than servants, and mercenaries are declared to be both useless and disloyal in this work.

Watch out: Life of Castruccio Castracani (Machiavelli's less-known work often compared to The Prince)
#473 · Religious Groups and Denominations · Level 1

Huguenots

Huguenots
bdi Paul Landowski /span /a /bdi / bdi Henri Bouchard /span · CC BY-SA 3.0

French Calvinist Protestants · 16th–18th centuries · France

Huguenots were French Calvinists who fought the Catholic League in the Wars of Religion and faced persecution including the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

The kit

  • Conflicts — Huguenots attempted to kidnap the royal family in the Surprise of Meaux and placed posters on the king's door in the Affair of the Placards.
  • Persecution — Huguenots lost thousands in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572, when leader Gaspard de Coligny was killed on Catherine de Medici's orders.
  • Strongholds — Huguenots were aided by the Duke of Buckingham during Cardinal Richelieu's siege of their stronghold La Rochelle in the Anglo-French War.
  • Legacy — Huguenots founded New Rochelle in New York and established agricultural settlements in Franschhoek, South Africa, after fleeing France.

Runs with

Edict of Nantes
granted Huguenots limited religious rights and protections open card →
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
killed thousands of Huguenots including leader Gaspard de Coligny open card →
Paris
Cardinal Richelieu
besieged Huguenot stronghold La Rochelle open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

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These people attempted to kidnap a royal family in the Surprise of Meaux , before later placing posters on the king’s door in the Affair of the Placards.

H

These people were able to place a poster on a monarch’s bedchamber door at Amboise [am-BWAHZ] in the Affair of the Placards.

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One of these people, Jean Calas, was unjustly accused of the murder of his son and was the subject of a work by Voltaire.

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These people, who were led by the Rohan brothers, lost power after La Rochelle was captured.

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JC Jongens designed a monument to these people located in Franschhoek, South Africa. One member of this group led the expedition that founded Fort Caroline in Jacksonville.

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”Reformed” group of Calvinists that fought with the French crown during the Wars of Religion and were protected by the Edict of Nantes [nahnt].

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A leader of these people named Jean Guiton [[gwee-TOHN]] fought in the naval battle of Saint-Martin-de-Ré [[sahn-mahr-TANH-duh-REH]] against Charles, Duke of Guise [].

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A leader of these people, Gaspard de Coligny, was killed on the orders of Catherine de Medici during the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.

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These people were aided by the Duke of Buckingham during the Anglo-French War due to Cardinal Richelieu’s siege of their stronghold of La Rochelle.

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French Protestants were given this name. Thousands of these people were killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572.

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Frederick William protected these people in Prussia with the Edict of Potsdam, which was a response to the second Edict of Fontainebleau.

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French Calvinists who fought the Catholic League in the Wars of Religion

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The Edict of Nantes [] granted rights to this group of French Calvinists.

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Members of this group often followed Calvinist doctrine. the Edict of Nantes granted a number of rights to what group of French Protestants?

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The Edict of Nantes [] provided limited rights to this group of Protestants in early-modern France.

10 more clues from the record
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That group was known as the Camisards.

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A Queen from the House of Albret who led these people was allegedly killed by poisoned gloves.

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Cardinal Richelieu besieged members of this group at La Rochelle. --Name this religious group whose freedom of worship was granted by the Edict of Nantes and revoked by the Edict of Fontainebleau.

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Members of this group established an agricultural settlement in the valley of Franschhoek in South Africa. The military forces of this group were led to victory in the Battle of Ivry over the Duc de Mayenne .

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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés massacred hundreds of members of this group upon taking their settlement of Fort Caroline in Florida.

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These people founded the city of New Rochelle in what is now New York and placed posters in the king's bedroom during the Affair of the Placards.

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Members of this religious group were promised tax exemptions in the Edict of Potsdam to encourage them to emigrate to Brandenburg-Prussia.

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A Knight of Malta led members of this group to an island in Brazil’s Guanabara Bay, where they founded an “Antarctic” colony.

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Fort Caroline in Florida was established to shelter these people, who were forced to house troops known as dragoons.

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A settlement established by this group under Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere [[goo-LEHN duh loh-doh- NYEHR]] was attacked by Spanish troops under Pedro Menendez de Aviles.

Watch out: Camisards (a later Huguenot rebel group, not synonymous with all Huguenots)
#478 · Religious Groups and Denominations · Level 1

Church of England

Church of England
Church of England · Public domain

English Protestant denomination · 1534–present · England

Church of England is the Protestant denomination established by Henry VIII after papal refusal to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.

The kit

  • Rise — Church of England was created by the Act of Supremacy following Clement VII's refusal to annul Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
  • Achievements — Church of England is governed by the Thirty-Nine Articles and draws heavily from the Book of Common Prayer written partly by Matthew Parker.
  • Conflicts — Church of England saw Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley burned at the stake during the Marian persecution after Catholic rule was restored.
  • Legacy — Church of England became the Episcopal Church in America after the Revolution, when Parliament allowed ordination without the Oath of Supremacy in 1786.

Runs with

church
Church of England is a Protestant church open card →
Henry VIII
Henry VIII founded it after papal annulment refusal open card →
Bishop
Church of England uses episcopal governance structure open card →
Book of Common Prayer
Book of Common Prayer remains prominent liturgical text open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

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The beliefs of this Christian denomination were outlined in the Thirty Articles.

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The death of Hugh Latimer, a member of this institution, is recalled in a book by John Foxe.

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Patrick Henry became famous by defending Hanover County against one of its members, who sued for back wages after the House of Burgesses limited the pay of its members in the Two-Penny Act.

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Newman justified his departure from this religion in Apologia Pro Vita Sua. Newman’s writings influenced the followers of the Oxford movement, who called for the return of certain older Christian traditions in this church.

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Until 1784, ministers of this denomination had to swear an oath of loyalty to the British Crown and Supreme Governor of this church, and the Book of Common Prayer is still a prominent text for this religious denomination.

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A 1963 work by John Robinson, a member of this institution, called for increased accessibility and advocated situational ethics; but that work was heavily criticised by this institution’s then leader, Michael Ramsey.

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The Welsh Methodist revival undermined the influence of this established church of Great Britain, which had already lost substantial ground in Wales in the aftermath of the English Civil War.

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William Laud held the highest position in this institution, which is governed by the Thirty-Nine Articles.

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Church that Henry founded after the pope would not grant him an annulment to that wife.

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This institution blamed Thatcherite policies for urban poverty in the 1985 report Faith in the City, even though the suffragist Maude Royden had previously described this institution as the “Tory party at prayer”. name this religious institution led by the Archbishops of Canterbury.

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Seabury had to go to Scotland for consecration, but in 1786 Parliament passed a law allowing people to be ordained in this organization without taking the Oath of Supremacy. name this organization which became the Episcopal Church after the American Revolution.

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Uganda's Gideon Byamugisha was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize for becoming the first member of this organization to come out as HIV-positive. In 2003, this organization fractured between supporters and opponents of Gene Robinson.

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This religious denomination promotes itself as “Protestant, yet Catholic,” and its leaders claim “Apostolic succession,” or descent from early Christian Church leaders. name this religious denomination that in America is known as the “Episcopal Church.”

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The Act of Supremacy empowered one leader of this denomination which draws heavily from the “Book of Common Prayer.” This denomination was created in response to Clement VII’s refusal to annul the marriage of Catherine of Aragon. name this denomination formed by Henry VIII.

E

Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley were two martyrs of this denomination who were burned at the stake in the Marian persecution after Catholic rule was restored.

10 more clues from the record
H

A member of this organization wrote a pamphlet that was just one hundred rhetorical questions in support of traditional authorities called the American Querist.

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The source of most of Marprelate’s ire was the episcopal structure of this religious institution, which was initially separated from Roman control by King Henry VIII.

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Robert Raikes, the father of the Sunday School movement, was member of this protestant denomination that still uses a version of the Book of Common Prayer.

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Another of this institution’s texts was started at the Hampton Court Conference in 1604 and was partly designed to replace an earlier one from Geneva.

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A member of this institution named James Maury was awarded one penny in damages from a case regarding the veto of the Two Penny Act.

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Alexander Hamilton published "A Farmer Refuted" in response to letters defending Loyalism by a member of this institution named Samuel Seabury.

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The Episcopal Churches in the United States and Scotland began as part of this church. :Name this Protestant religion that started as the Church of England.

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William Tryon faced opposition to raising taxes to fund this institution's expansion in North Carolina.

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One text used by this institution was defended by Richard Hooker and was partly written by Matthew Parker.

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Jonathan Mayhew attacked the heavy-handedness of East Apthorp, a member of this organization in Massachusetts.

Watch out: Thirty Articles (the actual governing document is the Thirty-Nine Articles)
#484 · Religious Groups and Denominations · Level 1

Spanish Inquisition

Spanish Inquisition
User:Di (they-them) · Public domain

Catholic tribunal · 1478–1834 · Spain

Spanish Inquisition was a Catholic tribunal established in 1478 to investigate heresy and ensure converted Jews and Muslims remained faithful.

The kit

  • Establishment — Spanish Inquisition was sanctioned by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478 and created by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.
  • Leadership & targets — Spanish Inquisition was first led by Tomás de Torquemada, who targeted Marranos (converted Jews) and Moriscos (converted Muslims).
  • Methods — Spanish Inquisition conducted auto-da-fé ceremonies where heretics were publicly burned, and forced victims to wear sambenito tunics.
  • Later history — Spanish Inquisition reemerged during the Ominous Decade and killed Cayetano Ripoll, its final victim, before disbanding.

Runs with

Spain
operated throughout Spain open card →
Ferdinand and Isabella
created by Ferdinand and Isabella open card →
Pope
sanctioned by Pope Sixtus IV open card →
church
used church documents and trials open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

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This institution was led by Tomas de Torquemada, and targeted Marranos and Mariscos. :Name this institution founded by Ferdinand and Isabella that ordered the expulsion of Jews from its country under the Alhambra Decree.

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Pope Sixtus IV sanctioned the creation of this institution in 1478. :Name this tribunal which for centuries investigated heresy in a certain Iberian nation. Apparently, nobody expects it.

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This organization, though it had been previously disbanded, reemerged during the Ominous Decade, and its members killed Cayetano Ripoll, who would be its final victim.

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It was established by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478, and among the actions of this institution were several edicts against the Alumbrados.

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According to Henry Charles Lea, victims of this institution were marched in processions accompanied by familiares while wearing sambenito tunics.

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Tomás de Torquemada oversaw this initiative, which employed the auto-da-fé ritual and was sponsored by Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille.

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Benito Garcia was killed by this institution for supposedly tearing out the heart of the Holy Child of La Guardia.

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Auto-de-fé was a common punishment in this period, which was spearheaded by Tomás de Torquemada.

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Ferdinand and Isabella created this authoritarian religious organization that converted Spanish heretics.

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Tomas de Torquemada led this organization, which used a seal that quoted Psalm 73, and frequently used the auto-da-fé to publicly burn heretics.

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This institution was led by a man who advocated for the expulsion of the Jews through the Alhambra Decree, Tomas de Torquemada. name this fanatical institution which persecuted heretics in an Iberian country.

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The Alhambra Decree was passed during this period to expel Jews from the Iberian Peninsula. name this period in which non-Catholics were forced to convert in Spain.

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Established by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile and first led by Tomas de Torquemada, identify this religious movement to stamp out religious heresy in Spain.

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"Holy Office" established in 1478 to ensure that converted Jews and Muslims did not revert to their previous faiths.

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Ferdinand and Isabella created this organization as a means of persecuting or converting Muslims and Jews. name this Catholic tribunal based in a namesake European country.

10 more clues from the record
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Over 7,000 women were killed during this event as part of a witch trial targeting Logron˜o.

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Tribunal, established in 1478, that persecuted hundreds of thousands of non-Christians in Spain.

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This initiative was prompted by Diego de Susona’s failed attempt to overthrow the governor of Seville.

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This institution conducted auto-da-fé ceremonies where they burned marranos and moriscos.

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People who were coerced by this initiative were dubbed marranos and moriscos.

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During this event, Pedro de Arbués was assassinated in La Seo Cathedral.

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Answer the following about works of microhistory that make use of church documents, .Transcripts of this institution’s trial of a woman who had prophetic dreams critical of Philip II are the main source of Lucrecia’s Dream by Richard Kagan. Under Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, this institution persecuted alleged heretics.

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Some people investigated by this body were forced to wear a conical hat called a coroza, while others were given a garment known as a sanbenito. :Name this body established in Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella. It routed out "insincere" conversos.

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Henry Kamen argued that this organization’s role behind revolts like the Alpujarras War was exaggerated as part of the “Black Legend.” The murder of Peter of Arbués led this organization to adopt new tactics against the alumbrados.

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This institution’s arrival in a city was marked with its issuance of an Edict of Grace. :Name this institution that sought to root out anti-Catholic heresy in the lands of Ferdinand and Isabela. Tomás de Torquemada headed this institution that publicly punished heretics during autos-da-fé .

Watch out: Medieval Inquisition (earlier, papal-controlled institution)
#488 · Religious Groups and Denominations · Level 1

Protestantism

Protestantism
Pudelek /a (Marcin Szala) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Christian denomination · 16th century–present · Europe, worldwide

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that broke from Catholic papal authority during Martin Luther's 16th-century Reformation.

The kit

  • Origins — Protestantism dates back to Martin Luther's Reformation in the 16th century, breaking from the Pope's authority.
  • Theologians — Protestantism's theologians included John Calvin and Martin Luther, who founded religions within this major Christian branch.
  • Denominations — Protestantism includes Baptists and Methodists as sects within this branch of Christianity.
  • Spread — Protestantism's French followers were the Huguenots, who received religious protection under Henry IV's Edict of Nantes.

Runs with

church
Protestant churches rejected papal authority open card →
Christianity
major branch alongside Catholicism and Orthodoxy open card →
Fourth Lateran CouncilBrezhnev Doctrine

The ladder · 5 clues

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Hong Xiuquan’s sect, the God Worshiping Society, combined elements of this branch of Christianity with Chinese folk religion. This branch dates back to Martin Luther’s Reformation in the 16th century.

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The Huguenots were French followers of this general branch of Christianity. Its theologians included John Calvin and it broke from the Pope’s authority.

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Henry IV apocryphally claimed “Paris is well worth a mass” after converting to Catholicism from this other general Christian denomination. The Edict of Nantes provided religious protection to this denomination’s Huguenots.

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Luther began the “Reformation” named for this religious branch of Christianity that broke off from the Catholic Church. The Baptists and Methodists are sects within this branch.

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John Calvin and Martin Luther founded religions in this major branch of Christianity, which isn't Orthodoxy or Catholicism.

Watch out: Confusing Protestantism with Orthodoxy as the third major Christian branch alongside Catholicism
#490 · Religious Groups and Denominations · Level 1

Calvinism

Calvinism
bdi Paul Landowski /span /a /bdi / bdi Henri Bouchard /span · CC BY-SA 3.0

Protestant Christian denomination · founded 1530s · Geneva, spread across Europe

Calvinism is a Protestant denomination founded by John Calvin in Geneva that emphasizes predestination and God's absolute sovereignty.

The kit

  • Rise — Calvinism was established as Geneva's official religion by French theologian John Calvin, author of Institutes of the Christian Religion.
  • Achievements — Calvinism's Five Points include predestination, the doctrine that God has predetermined who will be saved and who will be damned.
  • Conflicts — Calvinism differed from Lutheranism on whether Christ is physically present in the Eucharist and other theological questions.
  • Legacy — Calvinism was adopted by French Huguenots, Dutch Reformed, and Hungarian Reformed churches and recognized at the Peace of Westphalia.

Runs with

church
Calvinism is a Protestant church tradition open card →
Peace of Westphalia
recognized Calvinism as legal option for princes open card →
Geneva
Calvin established theocratic Calvinist government there open card →
Netherlands
William the Silent converted to Calvinism before liberating it open card →

The ladder · 9 clues

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This religious tradition differs from the Lutheran tradition on whether Christ is physically present in the Eucharist, among other things. :Name this religious tradition, which was founded by a French theologian who wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion and made it the established religion in Geneva.

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This denomination was once led by Theodore Beza, and it was popular among Transylvanian nobles, French Hugenots, and the Dutch. :Name this Christian denomination founded in Geneva, whose “Five Points” include Predestination.

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Though not Byzantine iconoclasts, mobs of this religious sect carried out the Beeldenstorm riots to smash religious images.

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The Peace of Westphalia recognized this branch of Protestantism. This was the religion of the Dutch and Bohemian leaders in the Thirty Years’ War, who allied with Lutheran Sweden.

M

The founder of this sect burned Michael Servetus at the stake for anti-Trinitarian views.

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William the Silent of Orange-Nassau converted to this sect before liberating the Netherlands.

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Ottoman Hungary was initially mostly Lutheran, but switched to this religion. The 1881 Synod of Debrecen was the start of the Hungarian Reformed Church of this religion.

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Its namesake founder ran a theocratic government in Geneva. name this Christian sect that included France's Huguenots and believed in predestination.

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This religion was added as a legal option for princes to choose in the Peace of Westphalia.

Watch out: Lutheranism—both are Protestant Reformation traditions but differ on Eucharist theology and predestination
#493 · Massacres, Assassinations, and Named Violent Incidents · Level 1

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
François Dubois 1529-1584 · Public domain

1572 massacre of Huguenots · August 24, 1572 · Paris, France

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was a 1572 mass killing of Huguenots in Paris orchestrated by Catherine de Medici during the French Wars of Religion.

The kit

  • Prelude — St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was made possible by Huguenots gathering for the wedding of Henry of Navarre and Marguerite of Valois.
  • Violence — St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre saw the murder of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and other Huguenot leaders by Catholic forces led by the House of Guise.
  • Identification — St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre saw Catholics use white linen tied around the left arm and white hat marks for identification in the dark.
  • Aftermath — St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre prompted Pope Gregory XIII to send a Golden Rose to Charles IX and issue a commemorative medal celebrating the event.

Runs with

Huguenots
victims of the massacre open card →
Henry
Henry of Navarre's wedding precipitated it open card →
Paris
location of the massacre open card →
Charles
Charles IX received papal honors afterward open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

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A major turning point during the French Wars of Religion was this 1572 mass killing of Huguenots, orchestrated by Catherine de Medici.

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Pope Gregory XIII sent a Golden Rose to Charles IX in commemoration of this event, which saw Charles Danowitz kill Admiral Gaspard de Coligny.

H

The admiral Gaspard de Coligny was murdered during this event.

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During this event, one person pleaded with his attackers to “respect these grey hairs,” but he was still defenestrated by the Duke of Guise.

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Gaspard de Coligny was killed during this 1572 slaughter of Huguenots in Paris.

H

Antonio Maria Salviati is a vitally important historical source for this event, which was partially orchestrated by Albert di Gondi.

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The nuptials of Henry of Navarre and Marguerite de Valois in Paris precipitated this event. :Name this mass killing of Huguenots that restarted the French Wars of Religion.

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This event ended the Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

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It was made possible by the gathering for the wedding of Henry of Navarre and Marguerite of Valois. :Name this event occurring on August 24, 1572, a certain feast day, which saw the murder of many Huguenot leaders in Paris.

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Henry had been targeted for assassination in this period of Catholic violence in 1572 that began with the assassination of Gaspard de Coligny, a Huguenot leader.

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This event began shortly after the personal physician of King Charles IX was sent to treat a man injured at the wedding of Margaret of Valois to Henry of Navarre.

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It was a reaction to the assassination of Charles IX’s advisor Admiral Coligny by the Duke of Guise.

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It took place in the aftermath of the marriage between Margaret of Valois and Henry III of Navarre and was instigated by either Henry of Guise or Catherine de Medici. name this 1572 massacre of Huguenots.

E

Massacre resulting in the death of Gaspard de Coligny

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French religious freedom took a hit during this 1572 event, during which Gaspard de Coligny and other Huguenots were attacked.

10 more clues from the record
H

Maurevert [more-vair] failed to assassinate the son of Jeanne III before this event, where the Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye was broken.

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This event was preceded by high tensions after Charles de Louviers fired on a statesman from an upstairs window.

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After hearing of this event, Philip II was said to have laughed for the only time on record.

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This event was masterminded by the House of Guise.

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One side used white linen tied around the left arm and a white mark on the hat for identification in the dark during this event, while the Capuchins had helped build up tensions for it.

H

answer the following questions on the exciting career of Joseph Scaliger:Scaliger fled to Geneva in 1572 after this massacre of Huguenots which took place in Paris during the French Wars of Religion.

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Theodore Beza wrote a letter to Heinrich Bullinger arguing that this event was evidence of a “universal conspiracy.” During this event, the son of Louise de Montmorency and leader of the Party of the Pastors was killed.

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Ivan the Terrible described it as something that “all Christian monarchs ought to be distressed by”, while Pope Gregory XIII issued a commemorative medal to celebrate it.

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The year before this event took place, a smaller-scale version was precipitated by the removal of a monument under a provision of the Peace of Saint Germain.

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Prior to this event, the envoy Salviati sent a letter stating that if one man went too far, he would have his knuckles rapped.

Watch out: Henry of Navarre was targeted but survived; Gaspard de Coligny was the admiral killed
#499 · Massacres, Assassinations, and Named Violent Incidents · Level 1

Bonfire of the Vanities

Bonfire of the Vanities
G.dallorto · CC BY-SA 2.5 it

mass burning of artworks · 1497 (culminating Feb 7) · Florence

Bonfire of the Vanities was a mass burning of artworks, books, and cosmetics deemed sinful by followers of Girolamo Savonarola in Renaissance Florence.

The kit

  • Purpose — Bonfire of the Vanities aimed to purge Florence of sinful objects and challenge the primacy of Carnival in citizens' lives.
  • Targets — Bonfire of the Vanities destroyed Botticelli's myth-inspired paintings, the Decameron, playing cards, wigs, musical instruments, and cosmetics.
  • Supporters — Bonfire of the Vanities was supported by the 'Weepers,' who targeted resisters, while opponents were called the 'Mad Dogs.'
  • Aftermath — Bonfire of the Vanities led to Savonarola's excommunication by Pope Alexander VI and his eventual execution after investigation by Sebastian Maggi.

Runs with

Girolamo Savonarola
led the burnings as de facto ruler of Florence open card →
Council of Florence
Florence
occurred in Piazza della Signoria open card →
Sandro Botticelli
legendarily destroyed his own paintings during the event open card →

The ladder · 15 clues

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This event may have been inspired by the similar actions of Bernadino di Siena decades earlier.

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An early one of these events on Shrove Tuesday began when white-gowned acolytes carrying red crosses claimed to “extirpate the abusive, perverse customs of Carnival.” These gatherings were often hosted in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, with an image of the devil adorned on top of a pile of straw.

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The man who led these events faced a personal excommunication from Pope Alexander VI and ultimately execution after a thorough investigation from Sebastian Maggi [[MAH-jee]].

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Large-scale burning of fine arts and other objects considered lewd by the followers of Savonarola [[sah-voh-nah-ROH-lah]].

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This event was opposed by the "Mad Dogs" and supported by the "Weepers." This event centered on a large wooden pyramid in the Piazza del Signoria.

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Sandro Botticelli legendarily threw his own artwork into the flames during these anti-pagan rituals.

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The most famous one took place on February 7, 1497 and was the subject of a defense by Transcendentalist Orestes Brownson. :Identify this event in which an assload of books, paintings, woodcuts, and other objects of sin were gathered up and destroyed, because its creator wanted to create a society based on biblical virtues.

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Lorenzi di Credi participated in the most famous of these events, which occurred on Shrove Tuesday, and featured women wearing olive branches who danced around their namesake in the Piazza della Signoria.

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The “Weepers” were supporters of these mass gatherings, and the artist Sandro Botticelli supposedly contributed many of his own works, particularly those including nudity, to these events. name these events that culminated on February 7, 1497 when followers of Savonarola burned thousands of “sinful” objects.

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Targets of this event included Botticelli's myth-inspired artwork, the Decameron, playing cards, and wigs. name this event in which followers of Savonarola burned sinful objects.

M

The Friar Girolamo Savonarola led this mass burnings of supposedly obscene art in 15th century Florence.

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This event titles a novel about the stockbroker Sherman McCoy, who is charged in a hit-and-run in the Bronx; that novel titled for this event was Tom Wolfe's debut novel. a Florentine version of which event was headed by the monk Girolamo Savonarola and involved burning many books and artworks?

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Though his later Mystic Nativity was most likely inspired by a sermon from the primary instigator of these events, Sandro Botticelli legendarily destroyed his own paintings during them. name these events led by Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola, in which many "occasions of sin" were burned.

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Many artists and musicians who had worked under the patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici were forced to feed their work into the flames during this 1497 campaign of book burnings launched by Savonarola.

M

While de facto ruler of Florence, Girolama Savonarola ordered one of these specific events to purge the city of sinful items like books, paintings, and musical instruments.

7 more clues from the record
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The media-hungry Reverend Bacon appears in a novel titled for this event which satirizes so-called "Masters of the Universe." Sandro Botticelli was a fervent supporter of this event and donated some of his paintings to it.

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During the Renaissance, Girolamo Savonarola decided to destroy thousands of books, artworks, and cosmetics in this event. Boccaccio, being a massive Savonarola fanboy, eagerly threw his own works in.

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Sandro Botticelli may have participated in this event by destroying his own works. :Name this 1497 event in which various paintings, books, and cosmetics were deemed immoral and burned.

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A year after this event, its leader was captured by a mob, but the planned trial-by-fire was delayed by rain.

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Savonarola organized this public burning of Renaissance artworks he considered immoral.

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Part of the purpose of this event was to challenge the primacy of Carnival in citizens' lives.

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At these events, so-called "weepers" would target those who resisted.

Watch out: Tom Wolfe novel of same name (1980s satire about stockbroker Sherman McCoy)
#519 · Medieval European Battles and Sieges · Level 2

Battle of Lepanto

Battle of Lepanto
bdi Laureys a Castro /span /a · Public domain

1571 naval battle · October 1571 · Gulf of Patras, Ionian Sea

Battle of Lepanto was a 1571 naval engagement in which Don Juan of Austria's Holy League fleet defeated an Ottoman fleet.

The kit

  • Prelude — Battle of Lepanto was a reaction to the siege of Famagusta, where Marco Bragadin was flayed alive after his last stand.
  • Forces — Battle of Lepanto saw the Holy League of Spain, Venice, and Italian states field galleys including six Venetian galleasses against the Ottomans.
  • Combat — Battle of Lepanto featured Don Juan's flagship Real withstanding an attack by Uluç Ali, who captured the Knights of Malta's flag.
  • Casualties — Battle of Lepanto resulted in Ali Pasha being killed and Miguel de Cervantes losing his left arm in the fighting.

Runs with

Ottoman Empire
lost fleet and Ali Pasha at Lepanto open card →
Nanda Empire
Venice
fielded galleasses under Agostino Barbarigo and Sebastiano Venier open card →
Austria
Don Juan of Austria commanded Holy League fleet open card →

The ladder · 9 clues

H

This battle was a reaction to the siege of Famagusta, and the Venetians, led by Agostino Barbarigo, fielded 6 galleasses [ga-LEE-us-es] during this battle.

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One side found time to gather its forces for this battle after Marco Bragadin’s last stand at Famagusta.

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The losing side in this battle allegedly began to throw oranges and lemons after running out of usable weapons.

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One person involved in this battle built the star fort of Palmanova to celebrate its outcome.

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The flagship Real [ray-ahl] withstood an attack by Ulu¸c Ali [oo-looch Ali] in this battle, where Miguel Cervantes lost his left arm. name this 1571 battle in which Don Juan of Austria’s Holy League defeated an Ottoman fleet.

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Miguel Cervantes lost his left arm in this battle, in which Don Juan of Austria used the Real [ree-AHL] as his flagship and defeated Ali Pasha. name this 1571 naval battle in the Gulf of Patras which saw the Holy League defeat the Ottoman Empire.

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The fall of the Famagusta colony preceded this battle, which brought an end to one side’s attempt to rescue Cyprus.

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Miguel de Cervantes lost an arm in this battle, where Ali Pasha was killed. name this naval battle where the Holy League defeated the Ottoman Empire in 1571.

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Sokullu’s tenure included this landmark 1571 battle, at which the Holy League under Don John of Austria smashed the Ottoman navy.

10 more clues from the record
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answer the following about the Spanish Empire:This 1571 naval battle, a major victory for the Spanish Empire, saw the Ottoman Empire lose to the Holy League of Spain and Venice.

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The October 1571 galley battle in which the Holy League devastated an Ottoman fleet in the Ionian Sea?

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Sebastiano Venier rose to prominence after this battle, where one side lost a force of irreplaceable composite archers.

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During this battle, an attack by Ulu¸c Ali [ool-ooch Ali] succeeded in capturing the flag of the Knights of Malta.

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Before this battle, the losing side flayed alive Antonio Bragadin after taking Famagusta.

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Suleiman’s successor Selim II was stymied by the Holy League Fleet consisting of Venetian, Spanish, and other Italian galleys at this 1571 naval battle.

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This battle’s loser boasted that “an arm when cut off cannot grow again, but a shorn beard will.” Marco Bragadin was flayed alive after buying time for this battle’s winning side to assemble a fleet.

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Sebastiano Venier, a future Doge of Venice, rose to prominence after serving in the centre division of this battle alongside the flagship Real, a galley.

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The festival Our Lady of Victory was created in commemoration of this battle, where a Genoan contingent was led by Gianandrea Doria.

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A bronze sculpture of Neptune was crafted to bear similarities to one admiral in this battle, which was preceded by the siege of Famagusta.

Watch out: Confusion with other Ottoman naval defeats or sieges of the same era
#551 · Medieval European Rulers · Level 2

Henry VII

Henry VII
Wikipedia Loves Art participant " a rel="nofollow" va_va_val · CC BY-SA 2.5

First Tudor monarch · r. 1485–1509 · England

Henry VII was the first Tudor monarch of England who defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485, ending the Wars of the Roses.

The kit

  • Rise — Henry VII landed at Milford Haven with his uncle Jasper Tudor and defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field with help from the Stanley brothers.
  • Achievements — Henry VII established the Star Chamber as a royal council and negotiated the Treaty of Medina del Campo with Spain and Treaty of Perpetual Peace with Scotland.
  • Conflicts — Henry VII defeated pretenders Lambert Simnel at the Battle of Stoke and Perkin Warbeck, then crushed the Cornwall Rebellion at Blackheath.
  • Legacy — Henry VII's chancellor John Morton raised funds using Morton's Fork, and advisers Richard Empson defined his later reign's reputation for avarice.

Runs with

Battle of Bosworth Field
Defeated Richard III there in 1485 to claim the throne open card →
Wars of the Roses
His victory at Bosworth Field ended this dynastic conflict open card →
House of Tudor
Founded this royal dynasty as its first monarch open card →
John
Employed Chancellor John Morton who created Morton's Fork taxation method open card →

The ladder · 9 clues

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Signed the Treaty of Perpetual Peace with this English king, the first Tudor monarch

H

This monarch employed Chancellor John Morton and defeated a rebellion at the Battle of Stoke; that rebellion was led by pretender Lambert Simnel.

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The expression "Morton's Fork" is named after an adviser to this monarch, who arranged marriages for his children in the Treaty of Perpetual Peace and the Treaty of Medina del Campo.

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This ruler allied his kingdom with Spain in the Treaty of Medina del Campo, and his chancellor John Morton raised funds from the nobility with a namesake fork.

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Richard III was defeated by this future king at the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the Wars of the Roses. This ruler’s son had six wives including Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.

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Both Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck rebelled against this king, who took the throne after winning the Battle of Bosworth.

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This paternal grandson of Catherine of Valois won at Stoke Field against the pretender Lambert Simnel, and later he defeated Perkin Warbeck.

E

This monarch, who established the Star Chamber, defeated a Yorkist king with the help of the Stanley brothers at one battle.This man defeated the forces of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the Wars of the Roses. name this first Tudor monarch and father of Henry VIII.

E

The victor of the Battle of Bosworth Field was this first Tudor king of England.

10 more clues from the record
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This king put down the Cornwall Rebellion at the Battle of Blackheath after Parliament approved a 60,000-pound grant to aid this king in putting down Perkin Warbeck’s uprising.

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This ruler ordered the repeal of the Titulus Regius of his predecessor, who had seized the throne by imprisoning two princes in the Tower of London.

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This monarch signed the Treaty of Etaples with Charles the Affable to cut of support for a domestic rival and sponsored the construction of the first European drydock.

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An advisor to this king warned him that Lord Lovell and the Stafford brothers were going to break out of their sanctuary at Colchester Abbey.

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Early in this man’s reign, John de la Pole revolted, trying to pass off Lambert Simnel as the Earl of Warwick.

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This man allegedly bullied Philip the Handsome of Burgundy into a trade agreement so favorable to his country it was dubbed the "Evil Agreement" by the Dutch.

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This man ruled through a group of counselors and judges known as the Star Chamber.

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Instead, posthumous monuments to this man included recumbent effigies created by Pietro Torrigiano. Polydore Vergil thought that “avarice” defined the last years of this ruler, who was advised by men like Thomas Savage and Richard Empson.

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Milford Haven though small now was once described as the greatest port of Christendom. :Milford was the landing site for this man and his uncle Jasper before he made his way to Bosworth Field and deposed a nag-needing king.

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Identify the following about a particular British monarch, .Raised by his uncle, Jasper, as a young man he fled England after a defeat of the Lancasters at Tewkesbury. He would later return to England and establish the Tudor dynasty.

Watch out: Confused with his son Henry VIII, who had six wives including Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn
#555 · Medieval European Rulers · Level 2

Ferdinand II of Aragon

Ferdinand II of Aragon
bdi Michael Sittow /span /a · Public domain

King of Aragon · 1452–1516 · Spain

Ferdinand II of Aragon married Isabella I of Castile to form the Catholic Monarchs, completed the Reconquista, and funded Columbus.

The kit

  • Rise — Ferdinand II of Aragon married Isabella I of Castile under a prenuptial agreement summarized by the motto "Tanto monta, monta tanto."
  • Achievements — Ferdinand II of Aragon accepted Boabdil's surrender at Granada in 1492, completing the Reconquista with his wife Isabella.
  • Conflicts — Ferdinand II of Aragon initiated the Spanish Inquisition with his wife and went to war with France to defend Alfonso II in Naples.
  • Legacy — Ferdinand II of Aragon ruled one territory on behalf of his daughter Joanna the Mad after Isabella's death.

Runs with

Reconquista
completed it by accepting Boabdil's surrender at Granada in 1492 open card →
Spain
unified it through marriage to Isabella of Castile open card →
Isabella I of Castile
married her to form the Catholic Monarchs open card →
Spanish Inquisition
initiated it with his wife Isabella open card →

The ladder · 9 clues

H

This last king from the House of Trastámara ruled one territory on behalf of his daughter Joanna the Mad.

H

Joanna the Mad was locked up by this World’s Best Dad. This king married Isabella I of Castile, completed the Reconquista, and sponsored Columbus’s voyages to the New World.

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This king employed possibly the first man to speak of a “western hemisphere,” Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, whose book Opera, Legatio was often mapless because this king banned giving foreigners maps.

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Charles V was king of Spain because his father Philip had married Joanna “the Mad,” the daughter of these two Catholic Monarchs of Spain. This king and queen kicked the Jews out of Spain in 1492.

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Christopher Columbus was funded by this king of Spain, who completed the Reconquista along with his wife, Isabella I of Castile.

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King of Aragon with whom she ruled jointly until her death.

M

This Spanish king died before he could fulfill a promised audience to Las Casas. This leader of Aragon led Spain during the Reconquista with his wife Isabella.

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Along with his wife, he initiated the Spanish Inquisition. name this king from Aragon, the male half of the “Reyes Catolicos” who completed the Reconquista with his wife, Isabella of Castile.

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This ruler accepted the surrender of Boabdil at Granada in 1492 to complete the Reconquista. identify this king whose marriage to Isabella of Castile formed the Catholic Monarchs.

10 more clues from the record
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Columbus sailed on behalf of these two Catholic monarchs whose marriage to each other unified Spain through joining their respective kingdoms, Castile and Aragon.

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Another monarch with this name and number agreed to a prenuptial agreement summarized by the motto “Tanto monta, monta tanto,” and led a conflict that ended with the surrender of Boabdil.

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As part of an agreement in which Louis XII ceded his claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, this ruler married Germaine of Foix later in life.

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This king rewarded the author of the first complete polyglot Bible, the Complutensian Polyglot Bible, for stopping a coup against him.

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During a surrender negotiation, this ruler agreed to spare an opposing commander the humiliation of kissing this man’s hands.

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Cosmographers upkept the Padrón Real at an institution founded by this king’s wife, the Casa de Contratación.

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This ruler went to war with France to defend the rule of his cousin Alfonso II in Naples.

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The Gourdian knot inspired this king’s motto, “tanto monta, monta tanto,” derived from his prenup.

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He met with the Nasrid ruler Boabdil prior to besieging Granada, which he captured in 1492.

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The motto “tanto monta, monta tanto” was used by this man as the guiding principle of his rule.

Watch out: Charles V (his grandson through Joanna the Mad and Philip)
#579 · Painters and Visual Artists · Level 2

Michelangelo

Michelangelo
bdi Attributed to Daniele da Volterra /span /a · Public domain

Renaissance artist · 1475–1564 · Italy

Michelangelo was a Renaissance master who sculpted David and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling for Pope Julius II.

The kit

  • Achievements — Michelangelo sculpted a marble David standing contrapposto with a slingshot on his shoulder.
  • Achievements — Michelangelo painted The Creation of Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, showing God and Adam's fingertips touching.
  • Achievements — Michelangelo designed a tomb for Julius II featuring a horned Moses due to mistranslation of the word 'halo.'
  • Legacy — Michelangelo's Pietà was vandalized in 1972 by geologist Laszlo Toth during Pentecost.

Runs with

Pope Julius II
commissioned Sistine Chapel ceiling and tomb with Moses sculpture open card →
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
painted Creation of Adam and Last Judgment with self-portrait open card →
San Lorenzo
Sandro Botticelli
fellow Renaissance painter active in Florence open card →

The ladder · 9 clues

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A horned Moses is featured as part of a tomb this man designed for “the Warrior Pope”, Julius II.

H

God touches fingertips with the first man in The Creation of Adam by this Italian artist who was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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According to legend, one of this artist’s works was damaged when he hit it with a hammer and commanded it to speak; that sculpture was created for the tomb of Pope Julius II.

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Portraits of this artist often feature a broken nose, reflecting an incident in which Pietro Torrigiano [[tohr-EE-jee-AH-noh]] punched him in the face.

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Another of this artist’s works contains a self-portrait as St. Bartholomew holding his flayed skin during the Last Judgment.

M

That pope was also the patron of this man’s ceiling paintings depicting The Creation of Adam. name this Renaissance painter of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

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Due to a mistranslation of the word “halo,” this artist once created a sculpture of Moses with two horns for the tomb of Pope Julius II.

E

This man depicted Adam reaching out his arm toward God in a work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and depicted a marble version of the slayer of Goliath. name this Italian Renaissance sculptor perhaps best known for his statue of David.

E

A work by this artist is signed on the sash of a woman cradling her dead son, and another sculpture by this man stands contrapposto with a slingshot on his shoulder. Name this Italian Renaissance sculptor of Pietà and a marble David.

4 more clues from the record
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This artist sculpted the facade of a memorial for Julius II, including a seated sculpture of Moses with small horns.

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During Pentecost in 1972, a disturbed geologist named Laszlo Toth vandalized this artist's Pietà.

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This artist maintained a Platonic and literary relationship with Vittoria Colonna.

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One of this artist's paintings was the subject of the "fig leaf" campaign.

Watch out: Sandro Botticelli also worked in Renaissance Florence and painted religious frescoes
#581 · Painters and Visual Artists · Level 2

Sandro Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli
bdi Sandro Botticelli /span /a · Public domain

Italian Renaissance painter · 15th–16th century · Florence

Sandro Botticelli was an Italian Renaissance painter whose only signed work is The Mystical Nativity.

The kit

  • Achievements — Sandro Botticelli painted The Birth of Venus, set off Cyprus's coast, showing the goddess standing in a clamshell while putti cover her.
  • Achievements — Sandro Botticelli created La Primavera, set in an orange grove where the Three Graces dance and Zephyrus rapes Cloris.
  • Achievements — Sandro Botticelli depicted Apollo holding a flute contrasting with a sword held by Mars in one of his paintings.

The ladder · 3 clues

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This artist, whose only signed painting is The Mystical Nativity, depicts Zephyrus’ rape of Cloris along the right edge and is set in an orange grove where the Three Graces do a circular dance.

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In one painting by this artist, Apollo holds a flute, contrasting with a sword held by Mars.

M

This artist’s most famous painting is set off the coast of Cyprus and depicts putti rushing to cover the title goddess, who stands in a clamshell. name this Italian renaissance artist of La Primavera and The Birth of Venus.

#587 · Painters and Visual Artists · Level 2

Raphael

Raphael
bdi Raphael /span /a · Public domain

Renaissance painter · 1483–1520 · Italy

Raphael was a Renaissance painter who created The School of Athens for Julius II's library and designed tapestries for the Sistine Chapel.

The kit

  • Achievements — Raphael painted The School of Athens for the library of Pope Julius II in the Vatican.
  • Achievements — Raphael designed tapestries for the Sistine Chapel, which are now lost.
  • Achievements — Raphael depicted Mount Parnassus with Sappho holding a scroll, Dante, Boccaccio, and the nine muses.

Runs with

Alabama
no connection evident in clues open card →
church
painted frescoes for the Vatican library open card →
Pope
worked for Pope Julius II open card →
Michelangelo

The ladder · 3 clues

H

This other artist designed now lost tapestries for the Sistine Chapel, in addition to painting The School of Athens for the library of Julius II.

H

This artist included a depiction of Sappho holding a scroll with her name on it, as well as Dante, Boccacio, and the nine muses in a depiction of Mount Parnassus.

M

The coiner of the term ‘genocide’, Raphael Lemkin, believed that one event in this country merited the term, as does the historian Timothy Snyder.

Watch out: Raphael Lemkin (genocide scholar, 20th century)
#591 · Painters and Visual Artists · Level 2

El Greco

El Greco
bdi El Greco /span /a · Public domain

Spanish Mannerist painter · 16th-17th century · Spain (Toledo)

El Greco was a Greek-born Spanish Mannerist painter known for dramatic religious works and his View of Toledo.

The kit

  • Early career — El Greco worked in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome but was dismissed for opposing Michelangelo's teachings.
  • Religious works — El Greco painted The Disrobing of Christ, showing the three Marys watching as Jesus's red cloak is removed.
  • Masterpieces — El Greco created the Burial of the Count of Orgaz, depicting clouds parting to receive Don Gonzalo Ruiz.
  • Spanish period — El Greco painted View of Toledo, contrasting a dark and stormy sky with green hills and a cathedral spire.

Runs with

Crete
Greek-born artist from Crete open card →
Rome
worked in Palazzo Farnese in Rome open card →
Jesus
painted The Disrobing of Christ open card →
Michelangelo
dismissed for opposing his teachings open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

This artist used gold and tempera to create a Dormition of the Virgin in the Byzantine style, and painted an Allegory of a Christian Knight in his Modena Triptych.

H

Giulio Clovio landed this artist a job in Rome in the Palazzo Farnese, but he was later dismissed for being against the teachings of Michelangelo.

M

In a painting by this artist, the three Marys watch in sorrow as a man in green attempts to pull off the red cloak of Jesus.

M

His works were judged to not completely follow the rules of the Counter-Reformation, preventing him from working for Philip II.

E

One of his works contrasts a dark and stormy sky with green hills and a cathedral spire, and in another, the clouds part to receive Don Gonzalo Ruiz. name this Mannerist artist of Burial of the Count of Orgaz and View of Toledo, a Spanish artist from Crete.

E

This painter of The Disrobing of Christ painted the Castle of San Servando in a depiction of his adopted hometown, his View of Toledo. name this Greek-born Spanish Mannerist painter.

Watch out: Not to be confused with other Mannerist painters who worked in Spain during the Counter-Reformation period
#596 · Other Continental European Monarchs · Level 2

Charles V

Charles V
Public domain

Holy Roman Emperor · 1500–1558 (r. 1519–1556) · Spain and Holy Roman Empire

Charles V was Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain who defeated Francis I at Pavia and the Schmalkaldic League at Mühlberg.

The kit

  • Rise — Charles V was the son of Juana the Mad and father of Philip II who gained control of Burgundy via the Treaty of Madrid after Pavia.
  • Achievements — Charles V sponsored Ferdinand Magellan's expeditions and passed the New Laws after being influenced by Bartolomé de Las Casas.
  • Conflicts — Charles V summoned Martin Luther to the Diet of Worms and defeated the Schmalkaldic League at the Battle of Mühlberg in 1547.
  • Legacy — Charles V agreed to the Peace of Augsburg with the Schmalkaldic League and abdicated in 1556 after uniting Spanish and German Habsburg domains.

Runs with

Roman Emperor
held title as Holy Roman Emperor open card →
Nanda Empire
Philip
fathered Philip II of Spain open card →
Spain
ruled as King of Spain open card →

The ladder · 9 clues

H

The Battle of Villalar was one episode in an uprising against this man called the Revolt of the Comuneros.

H

The revolt of the Comuneros broke out after Adrian of Utrecht ruled one of this ruler’s kingdoms in his absence.

H

The Spanish army was commanded by this Holy Roman Emperor, the son of Juana the Mad and father of Philip II, who spent his later life busting up the Schmalkaldic League.

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This man’s army innovated the “tercio” system to great effect, defeating rival Francis I at the Battle of Pavia in the Italian Wars.

M

Francis I was imprisoned by this ruler in the aftermath of the Battle of Pavia.

M

This ruler gained control of Burgundy in the Treaty of Madrid shortly after defeating his rival at Pavia.

M

This ruler agreed to the Peace of Augsburg with the Schmalkaldic League, whom this ruler defeated at the Battle of Muhlberg.

E

This ruler sponsored Ferdinand Magellan’s expeditions and fathered Philip II of Spain. name this Holy Roman Emperor who was also the King of Spain.

E

This ruler summoned Martin Luther to the Diet of Worms. name this 16th century monarch who served as both King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor.

10 more clues from the record
H

Adrian of Utrecht served as regent for this ruler during the Revolt of the Comuneros.

H

This man decreed that his family would be heirs to the unified Low Countries in a 1549 pragmatic sanction.

H

Holy Roman Emperor who demanded a council be held, some 20 years after he sacked Rome.

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This man’s hopes of controlling the Mediterranean were dashed after Hayreddin Barbarossa defeated his fleet at Preveza, but this man did check Protestant strength in Germany after defeating the Schmalkaldic League at Muhlberg.

H

This monarch was influenced by Bartolome de Las Casas to pass the New Laws.

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John Frederick I of Saxony and Philip I of Hesse led a league against this man, but were beaten by him at the Battle of Muhlberg.

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Because of that conflict, this ruler was opposed by the Schmalkaldic League.

H

The Revolt of the Comuneros took place under this ruler, who united the Spanish and German halves of the Habsburg domain into an insanely large realm until his abdication in 1556.

H

This monarch released the princes John Frederick and Phillip in the Peace of Passau, despite having won the Battle of Mühlberg against the Schmalkaldic League.

H

This ruler faced revolts from a rebel known as the “Hidden One”, as well as from a seven-foot tall Frisian pirate named Pier Gerlofs Donia.

Watch out: Philip II was Charles V's son, not a contemporary rival like Francis I
#656 · Technologies, Inventions, and Scientific Discoveries · Level 2

printing

printing
Esquivalience · CC0

movable-type industry · 1440s–present · Europe (originated Mainz)

Printing revolutionized communication after Johannes Gutenberg introduced metal movable type in Europe in the late 1440s.

The kit

  • Origins — Printing began in Mainz with workshops sponsored by Johann Fust and Peter Schoffer after Gutenberg's innovation.
  • Spread — Printing spread through Europe after exiles fled Mainz during the Diocesan Feud when Adolph of Nassau sacked the city.
  • Impact — Printing enabled the Protestant Reformation by allowing wide dissemination of Luther's thought across Europe.
  • Theory — Printing capitalism created 'Imagined Communities' and nations through new communication networks, according to Benedict Anderson.

Runs with

Johannes Gutenberg
invented metal movable type in the 1440s open card →
Rongorongo ScriptchurchAmerican Railway Union

The ladder · 9 clues

H

Early products of this industry, which were known as incunabula, included objects produced by the Venetian Aldus Manutius.

H

Francesco Griffo invented another key technique in this industry while working for the Jewish Soncino family and for Aldus Manutius.

H

Answer the following about Natalie Zemon Davis’s Society and Culture in Early Modern France, .The book’s final essay examines how this industry created new networks of communication in the 16th century. This industry used a device based on movable type that was invented by Johannes Gutenberg.

H

One pioneer in this industry used the symbol of a dolphin entwined around an anchor to represent the phrase “festina lente.” A book about this industry takes a mosaic approach and analyzes the “darker purpose” of the subdivision of King Lear’s kingdom.

M

This industry’s “capitalism” was integral to the creation of nations through formation of “Imagined Communities” according to Benedict Anderson.

M

Marshall McLuhan argued that this industry led to the development of a "global village" in a book titled after the "Galaxy" of this industry's founder.

M

Before 1500, this industry relied on “incunables.” Historians often credit innovation in this industry with catalyzing the Protestant Reformation by allowing the wide dissemination of Luther’s thought. name this industry that flourished after Johannes Gutenberg popularized movable type.

M

A technology central to this industry spread through Europe after its invention in Mainz, gradually displacing the use of woodblock and vellum. the Protestant Revolution was enabled by what industry that was radically changed by the work of Johannes Gutenberg?

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In the late 1440s, a German kickstarted this industry in Europe with the advent of metal moveable type. name this industry revolutionized by Johannes Gutenberg.

10 more clues from the record
H

Hadrius Junius and Ulrich Zell left textual evidence that an early worker in this industry developed its key technology, recounting a story in which that worker had the idea while amusing his grandchildren in the Haarlemmerhout.

H

In the 19th century, Richard March Hoe and William Bullock perfected a “rotary drum” technology for this industry, based on a technique that may have independently arisen with Laurens Coster.

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A company in this industry, introduced to one city by two brothers from Speyer, marked their products with a heavily-copied symbol of a dolphin wrapped around an anchor.

H

A group of workers in this industry on the rue Saint-Séverin held a trial and mass hanging in what Robert Darnton dubbed The Great Cat Massacre.

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This industry was the subject of Divine Art, Infernal Machine by recently-deceased historian Elizabeth Eisenstein.

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Johann Fust helped finance an innovation in it before bringing a lawsuit for allegedly unpaid loans.

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One of the first workshops in this industry was sponsored by Johann Fust and Peter Schoffer in Mainz.

H

This industry was at the center of the “transformation” described in Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue by Walter Ong.

H

Techniques in this industry were spread by exiles from a city sacked by Adolph of Nassau during its Diocesan Feud.

H

Anton Koberger, the godfather of Albrecht Durer, was responsible for the success of this industry in Nuremberg.

Watch out: Richard March Hoe and William Bullock perfected rotary drum technology in the 19th century based on a technique that may have independently arisen with Laurens Coster
#660 · Recurring Games, Festivals, and Ceremonies · Level 2

Indulgences

Indulgences
Nick-philly · CC BY-SA 4.0

Catholic Church remissions · medieval–16th century · Europe

Indulgences were Catholic Church documents that reduced punishment for sins, often sold for money to fund church construction.

The kit

  • Sale practice — Indulgences were famously sold by Johann Tetzel, who used the slogan "when a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs."
  • Theological basis — Indulgences granted full or partial remission of sin by drawing upon the Treasury of Merit from Jesus and the saints.
  • Luther's opposition — Indulgences were denounced in Martin Luther's 95 Theses, which attacked their sale to finance St. Peter's Basilica rebuilding.
  • Earlier uses — Indulgences were given to participants in crusades against the Cathars and to those who fought Ladislaus of Naples.

Runs with

Martin Luther
wrote 95 Theses attacking their sale open card →
church
sold them to fund construction projects open card →
Protestant Reformation
their sale sparked Luther's protest open card →
Brezhnev Doctrine

The ladder · 9 clues

H

The many of the 95 Theses were written against this practice of the Catholic Church at the time, in which minor or venial sins could be expurgated through donations to the coffers of the papacy, they were flagrantly sold by Johann Tetzel.

H

Catholic Church’s practice of encouraging monetary donations in return for forgiveness from sin.

H

"Permit" bought by the faithful, purported to absolve them of sins.

H

One slogan advertising these products allegedly went "As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs." :Name these objects advertised by people like Johann Tetzel on behalf of the Vatican. They claimed to ensure salvation for the buyer or a relative in exchange for a nominal fee.

H

Answer some questions about a religious controversy involving Martin Luther. :Luther was opposed to the selling of these entities, which in Catholic theology grant full or partial remission of sin by drawing upon the good works of Jesus and the saints from the Treasury of Merit.

M

Martin Luther opposed the sale of these documents by the Catholic Church, which reduced punishments for committed sins. Advertisers of these documents included Johann Tetzel.

M

Leo X's use of these things to finance the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica led a priest to denounce them in the 95 Theses.

M

Martin Luther denounced the sale of what things this provided remission from afterlife punishment to their buyers.

E

These documents were famously marketed by the weasely Johann Tetzel, who is quoted as saying regarding them: “every time a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs!” :Name these documents, which forgave sins in exchange for money which was used to fund church buildings.

10 more clues from the record
H

Sale of these caused an infuriated Martin Luther into post his 95 Theses in Wittenberg. :The 95 Theses were more formally titled The Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of these documents, which remitted punishment of sins already forgiven and were used to finance church constructions.

H

The sale of these things inspired the rhyme, "When the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from Purgatory springs!" :Name these remissions for sins, which Christians paid for in order to reduce time spent in Purgatory. The sale of these things was denounced in Martin Luther's 95 Theses.

H

A promoter of this practice entered towns displaying a letter on a velvet cushion as part of a plan to pay off the debt Albert of Magdeburg had acquired while bribing his way to the Archbishopric of Mainz.

H

This practice was advertised by a rhyme beginning "As soon as coin in coffer rings." This practice was defended in the letter Exsurge Domine in response to an attack on Johann Tetzel's promotion of this practice.

H

Gutenberg first used his printing press to print certificates of these documents. These documents, which were sold by Johann Tetzel, allegedly reduced the time a soul spent in purgatory.

H

Martin Luther clashed vehemently with Pope Leo the Tenth over the fundraising policy of selling these documents, which remit punishment for sins already committed.

H

Johann Tetzel [“YO-hann TET-zuhl”] was famous for selling these documents. :Name these religious documents that allowed the wealthy to pay to reduce the punishment for their sins.

H

They were handed out to those who took part in the so-called “Prussian voyages” as well as to those who fought the Cathars in South-western France.

H

John XXIII's (the 23rd's) use of this practice for a crusade against Ladislaus of Naples was attacked by Jan Hus (yon HOOS).

H

As an incentive, they were given out to participants in any approved passagium generale, and they were a natural extension of taking up the cross.

#663 · Recurring Games, Festivals, and Ceremonies · Level 2

Eucharist

Eucharist
Nheyob /a , cropped by Tahc · CC BY-SA 4.0

Christian sacrament · instituted 1st century CE · Christian churches worldwide

Eucharist is the Christian sacrament reenacting the Last Supper through consumption of consecrated bread and wine representing Christ's body and blood.

The kit

  • Scriptural basis — Eucharist was instituted by Christ's command "Do this in remembrance of me" recorded in Corinthians 11:23-25, the Words of Institution.
  • Theological disputes — Eucharist sparked debate at the Marburg Colloquy between Luther and Zwingli over whether Christ's body and blood were truly present.
  • Catholic doctrine — Eucharist involves transubstantiation of the wafer into Christ's actual body, a doctrine affirmed by the Corpus Christi miracle at Bolsena.
  • Protestant division — Eucharist's nature split Protestantism when Zwingli rejected Real Presence, claiming bread and wine remained symbolic, contradicting Catholic transubstantiation.

Runs with

Huldrych Zwingli
rejected Real Presence in Eucharist, claiming symbolic bread and wine open card →
church
setting where Eucharist is celebrated as central sacrament open card →
Martin Luther
debated Zwingli over Christ's presence in Eucharist at Marburg open card →
Colloquy of Marburg
1529 colloquy where Luther and Zwingli debated Eucharist's nature open card →

The ladder · 9 clues

H

Was the practice reenacting the last supper that split Protestantism?

H

Huldrych Zwingli claimed that the body and blood of Christ were not actually present in the consecrated bread and wine used in this sacrament, which conflicted with the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.

H

The Words of Institution are used to consecrate this practice, which is exemplified by Corinthians 11:23-25.

H

Three pamphlets regarding this practice were published by Andreas Karlstadt.

M

At the Marburg Colloquy, Zwingli debated with Luther over the nature of this practice. The specific debate centered on whether Jesus’s blood and body were present during this sacrament.

M

Though they were originally linked, this practice diverged from a communal gathering called agape.

M

This practice was the subject of debates at the Marburg Colloquy about the Real Presence and transubstantiation.

E

Miri Rubin and Caroline Bynum examined Cistercian nuns having visions of this sacrament on Corpus Christi. Corpus Christi was inspired by a miracle in Bolsena about this sacrament, which involves consuming the “body of Christ” as a transubstantiated wafer.

E

Lister’s longest standing partner, however, was Ann Walker, and a blue plaque at York’s Holy Trinity Church commemorates their ‘marriage’ through participation in this sacrament involving bread and wine.

1 more clues from the record
E

“Do this in remembrance of me” is a line inspiring - - what practice of consuming bread and wine in remembrance of Christ?

Watch out: agape (originally linked communal gathering that later diverged from Eucharist)
#704 · British Monarchs · Level 2

Henry VIII

Henry VIII
bdi Workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger /span /a · Public domain

Tudor King of England · r. 1509–1547 · England

Henry VIII was the Tudor king who broke from Rome to annul his first marriage, founding the Church of England.

The kit

  • Rise — Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon, widow of his brother Arthur, after Arthur died of sweating sickness.
  • Achievements — Henry VIII wrote Defense of the Seven Sacraments attacking Martin Luther's critique of indulgences, earning the title Defender of the Faith.
  • Conflicts — Henry VIII ordered the dissolution of the monasteries, provoking the Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion led by Robert Aske in Yorkshire.
  • Legacy — Henry VIII had six wives in his pursuit of a male heir, including Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour, mother of Edward VI.

Runs with

church
founded to enable his divorce open card →
Catherine of Aragon
first wife whose annulment prompted the break with Rome open card →
Anne Boleyn
second wife whom he secretly married open card →
Church of England
created after Pope refused his annulment open card →

The ladder · 9 clues

H

One painting depicting this monarch shows a meeting with Francis I at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

H

This monarch tried to force Scotland to give up Queen Mary in marriage to his son in the War of the Rough Wooing.

H

Martin Luther’s attack on indulgences prompted this man to write Defense of the Seven Sacraments.

H

Tudor king of England created the Church of England?

M

This ruler arrested Cardinal Wolsey for refusing to support his annulment from Catherine of Aragon, and later broke with the Catholic Church and created the Church of England after secretly marrying Anne Boleyn. what English monarch, the father of three other English monarchs, had six wives?

M

This ruler attacked Martin Luther's critique of indulgences in the Defense of the Seven Sacraments, which earned this man the title "Defender of the Faith." Robert Aske led the Pilgrimage of Grace against this ruler after he ordered the dissolution of the monasteries. identify this monarch who founded the Church of England effectively in order to divorce the first of his six wives.

M

Monarch who broke from the Pope after he refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon?

E

English king who fathered Edward VI with Jane Seymour, one of his six wives.

E

Catherine of Aragon was the first wife of this English monarch, who was married to six women, including Anne Boleyn.

10 more clues from the record
H

This monarch enacted the dissolution of the monasteries. :Name this English king who had six different wives in his pursuit of a male heir.

H

This ruler was opposed by a Robert Aske-led movement whose red flag showed the stigmata, the Pilgrimage of Grace.

H

This man, who declared that the English king was also the King of Ireland and passed a series of laws that annexed Wales, was protested by a group of roughly 40,000 people in Yorkshire during the Pilgrimage of Grace, which opposed this man’s dissolution of the monasteries.

H

This ruler met up with Maximilian I to defeat the French at the Battle of the Spurs, though he later took part in a peaceful celebration with Francis I at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

H

This ruler retained Boulogne under the terms of the Treaty of Ardres.

H

The Battle of Flodden Field was a victory for troops representing this English monarch. The army had been raised by Catherine of Aragon, the first of his six wives.

H

This king’s commander, Thomas Howard, defeated the Scots at Flodden Field.

H

This ruler married the widow of his brother Arthur after Arthur died of sweating sickness. :Name this second Tudor King of England. He was married six times, and famously oversaw the creation of the Church of England.

H

The carrack Mary Rose sank during the reign of this ruler, who ordered Thomas Cromwell to dissolve the monasteries.

H

This man destroyed many religious structures in his “Dissolution of the Monasteries.” name:This King of England who created the Anglican church in order to divorce his first wife.

Watch out: Cardinal Wolsey (arrested by Henry VIII for refusing to support his annulment)
#705 · British Monarchs · Level 2

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I
bdi Unidentified painter /a · Public domain

Tudor Queen of England · 1558–1603 · England

Elizabeth I was the Tudor queen who defeated the Spanish Armada and executed Mary, Queen of Scots.

The kit

  • Rise — Elizabeth I was imprisoned in the Tower of London after Thomas Wyatt's rebellion but later succeeded to the throne in 1558.
  • Conflicts — Elizabeth I survived the Babington and Ridolfi plots to assassinate her, both uncovered by spymaster Francis Walsingham.
  • Achievements — Elizabeth I rallied troops at Tilbury with her 'heart and stomach of a king' speech before defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588.
  • Legacy — Elizabeth I declared 'video et taceo' ('I see but say nothing') and refused to prosecute non-Protestants during her reign.

Runs with

Mary, Queen of Scots
executed Mary after Walsingham uncovered plots to replace her open card →
Spanish Armada
defeated it with Drake's fireships at Gravelines open card →
Gilbert Stuart
Mary
succeeded her half-sister Mary I to throne open card →

The ladder · 9 clues

H

This ruler’s “spymaster,” Francis Walsingham uncovered many plots to replace this monarch with Mary, Queen of Scots.

H

The Babington and Ridolfi plots sought to assassinate this ruler but were thwarted by the advisor Francis Walsingham.

H

One of this ruler’s admirals launched a daring raid on Cadiz, boasting he had “singed the beard” of a rival king.

H

This ruler declared “video et taceo,” or “I see but say nothing,” and refused to prosecute non-Protestants.

M

The Pope Pius V issued the bull Regnans in Excelsis against this monarch, who had the Duke of Norfolk executed after the failed Ridolfi Plot.

M

This ruler ordered the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots and sent Francis Drake to defeat the Spanish Armada. name this Tudor monarch, the “Virgin Queen” of England.

M

This monarch spoke of having a “heart and stomach of a king” in a speech to troops at Tilbury.

E

This ruler rallied the troops at Tilbury, where she declared she had the “heart and stomach of a king” in opposition to an invasion of the Spanish Armada. name this daughter of Henry VIII, a “Virgin Queen” of England.

E

The Spanish Armada targeted this ruler. name this daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, the “Virgin Queen” of England.

10 more clues from the record
H

This ruler’s navy fought off one attack by using fireships to thwart enemies at the battle of Gravelines [grav-LEEN].

H

This ruler chartered the Levant Company in an attempt to form a trade alliance with the Ottoman Empire.

H

This monarch may have prompted Robert Dudley to push Amy Robsart down a flight of stairs.

H

This ruler sent Robert Devereux to quash the rebellion of Hugh O’Neill in Ireland.

H

This woman was imprisoned in the Tower of London after the rebellion of Thomas Wyatt, and Anthony Babington later attempted to assassinate her.

H

Thomas Percy and Charles Neville attempted to overthrow this monarch in the Rising of the North.

H

This ruler was granted the Cautionary Towns as security for repayment.

H

This monarch gave the Tilbury Speech before Sir Francis Drake helped to defeat the Spanish Armada.

H

Bishop John Aylmer had the misfortune of having a healthy tooth pulled to alleviate the dental fear of this Tudor queen, who gorged on marzipan and rotted her teeth.

H

Tensions in Ireland were brought forth when this ruler was declared a “servant of crime” by the papal bull Regnans in Excelcis.

Watch out: Confused with her half-sister Mary I, who preceded her as queen
#714 · Named Historical Periods and Eras · Level 2

Protestant Reformation

Protestant Reformation
Public domain

16th-century religious movement · 1517–mid-1500s · Europe

Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century movement in which Christian churches broke away from the Roman Catholic Church.

The kit

  • Start — Protestant Reformation began on All Saints' Day 1517 when Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses in Wittenberg against indulgences.
  • Leaders — Protestant Reformation was led by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Ulrich Zwingli, who opposed Catholic Church authority.
  • Achievements — Protestant Reformation's focus on vernacular writing helped achieve a higher level of literacy in Europe.
  • Legacy — Protestant Reformation prompted the Catholic Church to convene the Council of Trent to combat the movement.

Runs with

Martin Luther
posted 95 Theses, most prominent leader open card →
church
Protestant churches broke from Catholic Church open card →
Brezhnev DoctrineFourth Lateran Council

The ladder · 9 clues

H

The start of this movement was partly inspired by a Dominican friar named Johann Tetzel in northern Germany, who was selling indulgences, claiming they would lead to heaven.

H

This movement is typically considered to have started when the 95 Theses against the Sale of Indulgences were pinned to a church door in Wittenburg.

H

The beginning of this movement was partially sparked by the actions of the friar Johann Tetzel, and the Council of Trent was convened in an effort to combat this movement.

H

A member of this movement, Johannes Bugenhagen, was called Doctor Pomeranus and crowned Christian III. The Count's Feud spread this movement in Denmark. Members of this movement condemned the execution of Michael Servetus.

M

In the Marburg Colloquy, leaders of this movement including Ulrich Zwingli came to an agreement on most points but disagreed on the presence of Christ in the Eucharist. name this movement whose most prominent leader was Martin Luther.

M

John Calvin was a member of this movement that rejected the Catholic Church in Renaissance Europe.

M

In 1531, the Peace of Augsburg helped achieve the goals of this movement which began after a German monk wrote against the practice of indulgences. name this movement against the Catholic Church, started in 1517 by Martin Luther.

E

Movement, led by Martin Luther, that the Council sought to address.

E

This movement started on All Saints’ Day, 1517, when Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses in Wittenberg. name this historical period in which Christian churches broke away from the Roman Catholic Church.

10 more clues from the record
H

During this movement, one man recruited the Free City of Strasbourg to assist his Protestant states in the First Kappel War.

H

A leader of this movement wrote the Institute in Basel and passed the Ordinances of 1541 to make the city of Geneva a center of this movement.

H

This movement was aided by Lucas Cranach, who helped create artistic propaganda to spread its beliefs.

H

This movement’s focus on vernacular writing helped achieve a higher level of literacy in Europe.

H

Gustav I’s clerical property seizures during this movement fueled the Dacke War, a Dalecarnian peasant uprising, and a rebellion of Westrogothian lords. :Name this 16th-century religious movement. It was established across Scandinavia after the Danish Count’s War and the Swedish Diet of Västerås , seven years after Archbishop Trolle’s “Stockholm Bloodbath.”

H

During this movement, the iconoclastic archbishop George Browne ordered the destruction of the Bachal Isu , or “Staff of Jesus”, for being a “superstitious relic”. :Name this broad religious movement which largely failed to gain a foothold in Ireland. This movement is seen to have started with the publication of the Ninety-five Theses.

H

John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments described this period in England, in which The Book of Common Prayer became liturgy. :Name this general period in which Henry VIII made the Anglican Church, Calvin published Institutes of the Christian Religion, and Zwingli preached in Zurich.

H

Answer the following about the Wars of Kappel, :The Wars of Kappel occurred during this broader period, in which figures like John Calvin and Martin Luther opposed the authority of the Catholic Church.

H

A leader of this movement named Philip Melanchthon (mel-ANK-thun) was based in a city where another man lived with his wife Katharina von Bora.

H

Leaders of this movement included John Calvin and Ulrich Zwingli. :Name this 16th-century movement that split Protestant groups away from the Roman Catholic Church.

Watch out: Council of Trent was Catholic response, not part of Protestant movement
#719 · Named Historical Periods and Eras · Level 2

Renaissance

Renaissance
bdi Leonardo da Vinci /span /a · Public domain

European cultural rebirth · 14th–17th centuries · Italy, then northern Europe

Renaissance was a cultural rebirth of classical learning and arts that flourished in Italy from the 14th to 17th centuries.

The kit

  • Origins — Renaissance began in Italy and spread northward, reviving classical arts and literature after the Middle Ages.
  • Achievements — Renaissance produced Machiavelli's *The Prince*, Castiglione's *Book of the Courtier*, and advances in polyphony by Josquin des Prez.
  • Historiography — Renaissance was named by Jules Michelet and analyzed by Jacob Burckhardt in *The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy*.
  • Legacy — Renaissance scholarship includes Joan Kelly's argument that women did not experience this period and the continuity thesis challenging its distinctiveness.

Runs with

Bakumatsu Period
Japanese cultural renewal period open card →
San Lorenzo
Florentine church built during Renaissance open card →
Council of Florence
1439 ecumenical council held during Renaissance open card →
Florence
Italian birthplace of Renaissance open card →

The ladder · 9 clues

H

Jules Michelet gave the first definition of this period in his History of France.

H

A 1977 article by Joan Kelly argued that women did not experience this period, which is argued to be a myth by the continuity thesis.

H

A Joan Kelly essay holds that this period's focus on "courtly love" forced feminine passivity. Baldassare Castiglione examined court life during this period in his Book of the Courtier.

H

JOHS-kin day PRAY) made advances in polyphony (puh-LIFF-uh-nee), and Giovanni da Palestrina wrote the Pope Marcellus Mass.

M

The idea that one of these events occurred during the twelfth century titles the most famous book by Harvard historian Charles Haskins.

M

Jules Michelet popularized its name, and a major history of it was written by Jacob Burckhardt.

M

This period’s reputation for cultural advancement has been challenged by historians who emphasize its nostalgia for classicism and continuity with the Middle Ages. name this era usually characterized by the flourishing of art and humanism in 15th and 16th century Italy.

E

The Prince was written during this period, a “rebirth” of classical learning.

E

Jakob Burkhardt argued that this period gave birth to modern individuality in The Civilization of [this period].

10 more clues from the record
H

Instigated the "Carolingian" example of what sort of period in which arts and learning revive?

H

In John Green’s Crash Course Youtube video on this historical time period, he asks if it “was … a thing” and then takes revisionism too far by declaring it to not be “a thing”. :Name this time period, which most historians would agree was indeed a thing. Starting in Italy and spreading northward, it was named after its cultural “rebirth” of arts and literature from the 14th to 17th centuries.

H

The continuation thesis views this period as distinct from the preceding medieval period. :Name this period whose French-derived name was first used by Jules Michelet to refer to the “rebirth” of civilization in Italy after the Middle Ages.

H

answer these questions about cultural historian Jakob Burckhardt.Burckhardt’s best known work is titled for the Civilization of [this period] in Italy. This period is considered to have followed the Middle Ages.

H

A book challenging traditional histories of this period was criticized for focusing too much attention on the Burgundian court, and is the best known work by Johan Huizinga.

H

A poet from this period popularized paradoxical lines like “I...fear, and hope; and burn, and I am ice.” Many incunabula belong to this period.

H

While Gibbon trashed religion, Jacob Burckhardt was a student of theology, influencing his history of this era’s “civilization”.

H

Well-born men of this time period were supposed to have sprezzatura, according to The Book of the Courtier.

H

During this period, the Donation of Constantine was proven to be a forgery.

M

This era's music came under fire at the Council of Trent and was succeeded by the Baroque period. identify this period in Western musical history in which motets and masses were the dominant form of music, and which shares its name with a "rebirth" in literature and visual arts.

Watch out: Carolingian Renaissance (earlier medieval revival, 8th–9th centuries)
#1014 · Popes · Level 3

Pope Alexander VI

Pope Alexander VI
bdi Attributed to Pedro Berruguete /span /a · Public domain

Renaissance Pope · 1492–1503 · Rome

Pope Alexander VI was the Borgia pope who issued bulls dividing New World territories between Spain and Portugal.

The kit

  • Rise — Pope Alexander VI was born Rodrigo Borgia and made cardinal by his uncle Pope Calixtus III.
  • Achievements — Pope Alexander VI issued the bull Inter caetera establishing the line of demarcation formalized in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
  • Conflicts — Pope Alexander VI clashed with Girolamo Savonarola, who openly flouted his orders and refused to join his Holy League.
  • Legacy — Pope Alexander VI fathered Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia; Cesare inspired Machiavelli's The Prince.

Runs with

Pope
head of Catholic Church 1492-1503 open card →
Borgia family
born Rodrigo Borgia, father of Cesare and Lucrezia open card →
Girolamo Savonarola
clashed with Savonarola who defied his orders open card →
Charles

The ladder · 6 clues

H

Savonarola openly flouted the orders of this Pope, refusing to join his Holy League.

H

Cesare Borgia was the son of this decadent pope who clashed with Savonarola.

M

Machiavelli’s The Prince praised Cesare, the son of – – what Pope of the Borgia family?

M

This pope attempted to settle a dispute between Spain and Portugal with the bull Inter caetera. :Name this pope who was attacked by Girolamo Savonarola and who was born Rodrigo Borgia.

E

This man, who arranged for a papal dispensation for Ferdinand and Isabella to marry, became Pope in 1492 and somewhat tried to control the Inquisition by appointing milder assistants to Torquemada.

E

This Pope, whose son Cesare [[CHEH-sah-reh]] was an inspiration for Machiavelli's The Prince, was a member of the Borgia [[BOR-zhah]] family.

10 more clues from the record
H

This Spanish-born pope instigated the treaty’s creation with bulls that declared the Spanish rights. This man was the father of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia.

H

This pope might have died from malaria after an event chronicled in Johann Burchard’s Liber Notarum. This pope had dozens of Roman homes razed in preparation for the Jubilee Year 1500.

H

Among this man's mistresses was Vannozza dei Cattanei, with whom he sired his most notable children.

H

He made a controversial move in adding twelve cardinals to the College of Cardinals, including one of his sons.

H

This man gave a cardinalship to Guillame Briconnet, who later gained the Bishophric of Nimes (pr.

H

Johann Burchard claimed that he held the Banquet of Chestnuts.

H

This pope issued the bull Dudum siquidem , which automatically granted “discovered” territories to Spain and Portugal. :Name this pope who issued three Bulls of Donation, granting Spain and Portugal rights to colonize the New World. Exaggerated accounts of the Banquet of Chestnuts were likely intended to attack this pope.

H

He sanctioned the partitioning of Naples in the Secret Treaty of Granada and approved a divorce from Jane of Valois to one of its signatories, Louis XII, in order to win support from France after its earlier ruler, Charles VIII, had invaded Italy.

H

Created a cardinal by his uncle Pope Calixtus III, this pope presided during the reign of Savonarola in Florence and drew the line of demarcation that served as the basis for the Treaty of Tordesillas. :Identify this notably corrupt Borgia pope.

H

One event during this man's papacy involved naked prostitutes eating food from off a floor followed by an orgy. :Identify this corrupt pope whose papacy saw the Feast of the Chestnuts.

Watch out: Not Pope Calixtus III, his uncle who made him cardinal
#1015 · Popes · Level 3

Pope Julius II

Pope Julius II
bdi Raphael /span /a · Public domain

Renaissance pope · 1503–1513 · Rome

Pope Julius II was a della Rovere pope who formed the League of Cambrai against Venice and commissioned Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.

The kit

  • Rise — Pope Julius II was buried near his uncle Pope Sixtus IV and rebuilt St. Peter's Basilica during his papacy.
  • Conflicts — Pope Julius II allied with Louis XII and Maximilian I to form the League of Cambrai against Venice in 1508.
  • Achievements — Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling and Raphael's scenes in the Apostolic Palace as a prolific art patron.
  • Legacy — Pope Julius II earned the nickname "Warrior Pope" for personally commanding forces during the Siege of Mirandola and conquering Ferrara.

Runs with

Pope
held the papal office 1503–1513 open card →
Venice
formed League of Cambrai to weaken Venice open card →
Michelangelo
commissioned Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes open card →
France
allied with Louis XII against Venice open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

In attempting to fight Venice, he created an alliance with such rulers as Louis XII, Maximilian I, and Ferdinand Ii of Aragon.

H

The “Warrior Pope” who created the League of Cambrai?

M

This pope allied with Louis XII of France and Emperor Maximilian I to fight against Venice in the War of the League of Cambrai.

M

Buried near his uncle Pope Sixtus IV, this man rebuilt St. Peter’s Basilica. name this member of the Della Rovere family, a “Warrior Pope.”

E

This pope created the League of Cambrai to oppose Venice and commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. name this 16th-century "Warrior Pope."

E

This man also commissioned a statue mysteriously bearing horns thanks to a mistranslation of the word "cornuta." Raphael’s scenes in the Apostolic Palace were commissioned by this “Warrior Pope” who asked Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

10 more clues from the record
H

This man's illegitimate daughter, Felice, appears on the left side of one work depicting this man kneeling before a eucharistic miracle.

H

The Conciliabulum of Pisa was opposed by this pope’s calling of the Fifth Council of the Lateran.

H

Known as the Warrior Pope, this man organized the League of Cambrai to weaken Venice. :Name this Pope, a great of patron of the arts who commissioned Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante, and who began the construction of St. Peter’s Basilica.

H

This ruler convened a meeting that had been organized at Pisa and brought into question the Pragmatic Sanction of France.

H

This man excommunicated Alfonso I d'Este [[the FIRST DEH-steh]] who then defeated this man's forces at the Battle of Polesella [[poh-leh-SEH-lah]].

H

One of the most prolific art patron popes was this della Rovere pope, who was painted by Raphael and commissioned the ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel.

H

Erasmus wrote a dialogue that features this man trying to convince Peter to let him into heaven, threatening Peter with papal bulls and excommunication.

H

This man conquered Ferrara from his former ally, Alfonso d’Este [DESS-tay], and took personal command during the Siege of Mirandola.

H

This man issued a bull confirming the Treaty of Tordesillas [torr-de-SEE-yes].

H

The League of Venice's victory at Fornovo began a rapid ascent for the Italian republic, which by 1508 prompted this man to form the League of Cambrai, triggering a namesake war. This "Warrior Pope" is also remembered for his patronage of Michaelangelo.

Watch out: Pope Sixtus IV (his uncle, also della Rovere family, near whom Julius II was buried)
#1016 · Popes · Level 3

Pope Leo X

Pope Leo X
Francesco Bini · Public domain

Renaissance pope · 1513–1521 · Rome

Pope Leo X was Giovanni de' Medici, second son of Lorenzo, who excommunicated Martin Luther and rebuilt St. Peter's Basilica.

The kit

  • Rise — Pope Leo X succeeded Julius II in 1513 and reopened the Fifth Lateran Council to complete the Pisan schism.
  • Conflicts — Pope Leo X waged the War of Urbino against Francesco Maria della Rovere to secure his nephew's rule over the city.
  • Luther controversy — Pope Leo X issued the bull Exsurge Domine in 1520, threatening Martin Luther with excommunication unless he recanted his views.
  • Legacy — Pope Leo X gave Henry VIII the ironic title Defender of the Faith and rebuilt St. Peter's Basilica during his papacy.

Runs with

Pope
held the office 1513–1521 open card →
Martin Luther
excommunicated him via Decet Romanum Pontificem in 1521 open card →
Exsurge Domine
issued this 1520 bull condemning Luther's propositions open card →
church
led the Catholic Church during the Reformation crisis open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

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Born Giovanni de’ Medici, the second son of Lorenzo, he succeeded Julius II and excommunicated Martin Luther in 1521.

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This man received the embassy of the Portuguese king Manuel I, who had previously gifted this man an elephant named Hanno. This man presided over the closing of the Fifth Lateran Council and issued the papal bull Exsurge Domine [ex-oor-gay doh-mee-nay] in condemnation of the author of the 95 Theses. name this pope who clashed with Martin Luther.

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Pope who opposed Martin Luther’s ideas on reformation and eventually excommunicated him.

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This Pope authorized a crusade against the Ottomans. He appointed Dózsa to organize and direct the campaign, which devolved into an anti-landlord struggle, leading this Pope to revoke the order. He also issued the bull Exsurge Domine.

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This pope issued a bull declaring equal treatment of the cagots, which locals ignored or protested. His other declarations include Exsurge Domine, which condemned the heresy of at least 41 points from a longer list.

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In 1520, this pope issued the bull Exsurge Domine, threatening Martin Luther with excommunication if he did not recant his views. This pope gave Henry VIII the ironic title “Defender of the Faith.”

8 more clues from the record
H

This figure fought Francesco Maria I in the War of Urbino to secure his nephew’s rule over the city.

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Bembo and Sadoleto were secretaries to this man, who waged a war against Francesco Maria della Rovere, duke of Urbino. In Raphael’s portrait of this man that stands in the Pitti Palace, Cardinal Luigi de Rossi and future Pope Clement VII stand by this man, who wrote the papal bull Exsurge Domine refuting the propositions of a man whom he excommunicated via the bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.

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Wolsey was made a cardinal in 1515 by this Pope, who later appointed him papal legate to Britain. This Pope was in office when Luther posted the ninety-five theses.

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At the time, the Church was led by this flamboyant, heavy-spending Pope who excommunicated Luther after his refusal to back down at the Diet of Worms.

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This son of Lorenzo de Medici became pope in 1513. He excommunicated Martin Luther from the Catholic Church, and reconstructed St. Peter’s Basilica.

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He reopened the Fifth Lateran Council in order to complete the Pisan schism, and he formed alliances with both Francis I and Ferdinand II.

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This pope issued a bull that forbade Latin clergy to ordain Greek clergy or pray with Greek clergy and in Greek churches.

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In response to the 95 Theses, this pope issued the bull Exsurge Domine, which demanded that Luther retract a number of errors within 60 days.

Watch out: Martin Luther posted the Ninety-Five Theses during Leo X's papacy, not addressed to him personally
#1019 · Popes · Level 3

Pope Clement VII

Pope Clement VII
bdi Sebastiano del Piombo /span /a · Public domain

Medici pope · 1523–1534 · Rome and Avignon

Pope Clement VII was a Medici pope whose refusal to grant Henry VIII a divorce from Catherine of Aragon coincided with England's break from Rome.

The kit

  • Conflicts — Pope Clement VII refused to grant Henry VIII a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, who was Clement's niece.
  • Achievements — Pope Clement VII appointed Francesco Guicciardini as viceregent of Romagna and later lieutenant-general in the papal army.
  • Legacy — Pope Clement VII evacuated Rome before its sack by Charles V in 1527 during his papacy.

Runs with

Henry VIII
refused his divorce request from Catherine of Aragon open card →
Rome
evacuated before its 1527 sack by Charles V open card →
Pope
Medici pope during 1520s-1530s open card →
Catherine of Aragon

The ladder · 6 clues

H

Catherine was the niece of this pope, who pissed off Henry VIII of England by refusing to grant him a divorce from Catherine of Aragon.

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Medici Pope who evacuated Rome before its sack by Charles V. He oversaw the reaction to the English Reformation.

H

The monumental Storia d’Italia, or History of Italy, was written by a man he appointed viceregent of Romagna and then lieutenant-general in the papal army, Francesco Guicciardini.

H

After Gregory XI moved the Papacy back to Rome, the Western Schism properly began when a group of cardinals elected this man to continue the papacy in Avignon.

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The historian Paolo Giovio was this man’s personal physician and confidant for fifteen years.

M

This pope was also a Medici. During his papacy, Rome was sacked in 1527 and Henry VIII of England created the Anglican church.

Watch out: A different Clement VII was elected during the Western Schism to continue the papacy in Avignon after Gregory XI
#1022 · Popes · Level 3

Pope Callixtus III

Pope Callixtus III
bdi Sano di Pietro /span /a · Public domain

15th-century pope · 1455–1458 · Rome

Pope Callixtus III, born Alfonso de Borgia, reigned during the 1456 Siege of Belgrade and famously denounced Halley's Comet as a bad omen.

The kit

  • Rise — Pope Callixtus III was born Alfonso de Borgia and became pope in 1455.
  • Conflicts — Pope Callixtus III reigned during the 1456 Siege of Belgrade against Ottoman forces.
  • Legacy — Pope Callixtus III denounced Halley's Comet as a bad omen during his papacy.

Runs with

Joan of ArcHungary
Borgia family
born Alfonso de Borgia open card →
church
led as pope 1455–58 open card →

The ladder · 1 clues

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Born Alfonso de Borgia, this pope reigned during the 1456 Siege of Belgrade, during which he denounced Halley’s Comet as a bad omen.

Watch out: Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), his nephew and also a Borgia pope
#1119 · Church Councils and Ecclesiastical Assemblies · Level 3

Council of Constance

Council of Constance
bdi Václav Brožík /span /a · Public domain

Church council · 1414–1418 · Constance

Council of Constance was a 1414–1418 church council that ended the Western Schism by electing Martin V as pope.

The kit

  • Convocation — Council of Constance was called by Sigismund of Luxembourg to resolve the triple papal claim involving successors to Benedict XIII and Gregory XII.
  • Papal resolution — Council of Constance ended the Great Western Schism by electing Martin V as pope after deposing three reigning popes.
  • Executions — Council of Constance sanctioned the execution of Jan Hus and condemned Jerome of Prague, triggering wars between Utraquists and Taborites.
  • Other business — Council of Constance established the Diocese of Samogitia and mediated disputes between John of Falkenberg and Jogaila over Poland.

Runs with

Fourth Lateran Council
Jan Hus
executed Jan Hus for heresy during the council open card →
John
John XXIII offered to resign during second session open card →
Pope
elected Martin V as pope to end schism open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

Theodoric Vrie was a historian of this event, which established the Diocese of Samogitia and appointed Jogaila and Vytautas as vicars general.

H

The Utraquists and Taborites fought a war after Jan Hus was executed at this council.

M

Martin V was elected Pope at this fifteenth century church council that ended the Western Schism.

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Jerome of Prague was condemned during this event, which began, in part, due to the urging of Sigismund of Luxembourg.

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The election of Martin the Fifth ended the Great Western Schism at this fifteenth- century church council.

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To end the schism caused by the Babylonian Captivity, Martin V was elected pope at this church meeting, which also sanctioned the execution of Jan Hus.

10 more clues from the record
H

John of Ragusa led some debate at this council and John of Falkenberg declared the Polish people should be exterminated.

H

Called to resolve the triple-claim to the papacy, FTP, identify this 1414-18 council that ended the Great Schism by electing Martin V as pope.

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A dispute between John of Falkenberg and Jogaila was settled at this conference, where the decree Sacrosancta gave this council divinely appointed authority shortly after John XXIII [23] abandoned it.

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A conflict mediated by this event involved a man who called another a “mad dog” in his work Satira.

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It compiled the text “The Art of Dying” and resolved a disastrous situation involving the successors to Benedict XIII and Gregory XII, which was only further confused when the Council of Pisa elected Alexander V, who was then succeeded by John XXIII.

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Following the Failed Council of Pisa where the popes of Rome and Avignon both refused to step down, Sigismund called for this council which deposed the three reigning popes and executed Jan Hus.

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Often regarded as the Sixteenth Ecumenical Council, other issues this council oversaw were the canonization of St. Bridget of Sweden, and the termination of the Utraquist Wars by condemning Jerome of Prague and Jan Hus.

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John XXIII offered to resign from the papacy during the second session of this event and the primary election at this event occurred despite not having Peter de Luna’s cardinals present.

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A conflict between two of the parties here was mediated by Pierre d’Ailly, who balanced the opposing viewpoints on regicide of Paulus Vladimiri and John of Falkenberg.

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One of the key figures present was a man who was reported to have a rampant flatulence problem, Pierre d’Ailly, who was often supported by John Gerson.

Watch out: Council of Pisa (failed predecessor that elected Alexander V, further confusing the schism)
#1121 · Church Councils and Ecclesiastical Assemblies · Level 3

Council of Trent

Council of Trent
Laurom /a typeof="mw:File/Frameless" img alt="Edit this at S · CC BY-SA 3.0

Catholic ecumenical council · 1545–1563 · northern Italy

Council of Trent was a Catholic ecumenical council convened by Pope Paul III that launched the Counter-Reformation in response to Protestantism.

The kit

  • Doctrinal decisions — Council of Trent set the number of sacraments at seven and reaffirmed the sale of indulgences and traditional books of the Bible.
  • Reforms — Council of Trent mandated Catholic realms adopt the Gregorian calendar and produced a namesake mass used for four hundred years.
  • Publications — Council of Trent led to the release of the List of Prohibited Books and a catechism developed primarily by Carlo Borromeo.
  • Ratification — Council of Trent's pronouncements were ratified by the papal bull Benedictus Deus issued after the council concluded.

Runs with

Fourth Lateran Council
earlier ecumenical council open card →
church
defined Catholic Church doctrine and sacraments open card →
Pope
convened by Pope Paul III open card →
Bible
reaffirmed traditional books of the Bible open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

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Many of this event’s ideas were ratified with the Benedictus Deus.

H

After this meeting, the List of Prohibited Books was released, and the pronouncements of this meeting were ratified by the papal bull Benedictus Deus.

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Provisions of this council mandated that Catholic realms adopt the Gregorian calendar and set the number of sacraments at seven.

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name this ecumenical council which met in a northern Italian city between 1545 and 1563, launching the Counter-Reformation.

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The spread of Protestantism prompted Pope Paul III to convene this Catholic council that outlined the tenets of the Counter-Reformation.

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Denouncing the concept of "justification by faith alone," what Church council condemned the teachings of Martin Luther and began the Counter-Reformation?

10 more clues from the record
H

Charles de Lorraine was a latecomer to this event due to a French boycott.

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At the end of this event, Charles Borromeo wrote a namesake catechism.

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A notable catechism that came out of this event was developed primarily by Carlo Borromeo.

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This council lasting from 1545 to 1563 marked the beginning of the Counter-Reformation. It repudiated Protestantism and defined the role of the sacraments.

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A four volume "examination" of this event was published by the author of the Book of Concord, Martin Chemnitz.

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The secretary at the end of this council was Carlo Borromeo, the Archbishop of Milan, who had influence over Pope Pius IV.

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After a boycott, France sent Charles de Guise as a representative to this event, and its namesake catechism was written by Carlo Borromeo.

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Cardinal Reginald Pole and Giovanni del Monte, who later became Pope Julius the Third, served as papal legates during this gathering.

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The sale of indulgences was reaffirmed by this council, which responded to the burning of a copy of the bull Exsurge Domine [ex-oor-gay doh-mee-nay].

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This council officially reaffirmed the traditional books of the Bible and developed a namesake mass that would be in use for the next four hundred years.

Watch out: Fourth Lateran Council (earlier ecumenical council)
#1123 · Church Councils and Ecclesiastical Assemblies · Level 3

Colloquy of Marburg

Colloquy of Marburg
span lang="en" Anonymous /span Unknown author · Public domain

Protestant theological meeting · October 1529 · Marburg, Germany

Colloquy of Marburg was a 1529 meeting where Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli failed to reconcile their views on the Eucharist.

The kit

  • Convening — Colloquy of Marburg was called by Philip of Hesse to unite Protestants after the Diet of Speyer.
  • Participants — Colloquy of Marburg included Luther, Zwingli, Philip Melanchthon, Martin Bucer, and Johannes Oecolampadius among its attendees.
  • Dispute — Colloquy of Marburg centered on disagreement over the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist during communion.
  • Outcome — Colloquy of Marburg produced fifteen articles of agreement but failed to resolve the Eucharist dispute, preventing Protestant alliance.

Runs with

Philip
convened the meeting to unite Protestants open card →
Martin Luther
debated Zwingli over Real Presence open card →
Eucharist
central point of theological disagreement open card →
Huldrych Zwingli
opposed Luther on Eucharist interpretation open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

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This meeting was called for by Philip of Hesse in 1529. :Name this meeting in which Martin Luther debated another Protestant leader over some other dude over the transubstantiation of the Eucharist.

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Invitations by Philipp I of Hessen led to this event, which occurred in the wake of the Diet of Speyer. :Identify this meeting, whose acrimonious end had to later be addressed through the Diet of Augsburg, at which Martin Luther declared that the faith of another man's followers was not Christianity if it did not acknowledge the Real Presence in the Eucharist.

M

Zwingli separated from Martin Luther after this 1529 meeting failed to bring compromise for their opposing views on the Eucharist.

M

This event was organized by Philip the Magnanimous, the Landgrave of Hesse, and produced 15 namesake articles, despite the remaining point of disagreement on the nature of the Lord's Supper. identify this 1529 event at which Philip Melanchthon and Martin Luther argued theology with Huldrych Zwingli.

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This event occurred partially due to the request of Johannes Oecolampadius, who was present at it, and thanks to Bucer's efforts a closer agreement than was reached at this event was attained during the two following Concordia Wirtembergensis.

E

Zwingli and Luther failed to reconcile their differences over the interpretation of the Eucharist at this 1529 meeting, organized by Philip of Hesse in the namesake German city.

9 more clues from the record
H

Ulrich Zwingli met with Martin Luther at this October 1529 colloquy to solve a dispute about the Real Presence of Christ. This event didn’t help prevent the tensions that flared during the Diet of Augsburg years later.

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The participants attended at the behest of Philip of Hesse, and while one of the participants had hoped to “end the strife of blind fury,” bitter differences still remained between the two sides at the following year’s Diet of Augsburg.

H

One participant in this event summarized his views in a book subtitled Against the Fanatics. :Name this three-day-long meeting convened by Philip I of Hessen to resolve a dispute over the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

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Eberhard von der Tann was dispatched to sabotage this event after being instructed by Elector John to ensure that no alliance resulted from it; despite those efforts, this event did result in a document known as its namesake Sketch of an Alliance.

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This event was forced to end prematurely due to an outbreak of an epidemic known as the “English sweats.” An important mediating role at this event was played by Martin Beucer.

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Urbanus Rhegius fell ill prior to this event, which led to Michael Agricola attending it in his place.

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Some of the participants in this event include Martin Bucer, Phillipp Melanchthon, and Johannes Oecolampadius.

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The earlier Diets at Augsburg were an extension of this meeting. Called by Philip of Hesse, this 1529 colloquy attempted to resolve fifteen articles of Lutheran theology between the supporters of Luther and Zwingli.

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The doctrine of consubstantiation was disputed during this 1529 meeting, where Luther and Zwingli resolved disputes between various Protestants such that an alliance could be formed.

Watch out: Diet of Augsburg (followed this meeting and addressed remaining theological tensions)
#1128 · Church Councils and Ecclesiastical Assemblies · Level 3

Council of Florence

Council of Florence
Michel Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff ( Hartmann Schedel /a · Public domain

15th-century ecumenical council · 1431–1445 · Italy

The Council of Florence was a decade-long ecumenical council attempting to reunify the Orthodox and Catholic churches after the Great Schism.

The kit

  • Beginning — The Council of Florence began in 1431 as an effort to repair the schism between Orthodox and Catholic churches.
  • Greek concessions — The Council of Florence saw Greeks accept the Filioque clause and Catholic doctrines like purgatory in negotiations.
  • Decree & relocation — The Council of Florence produced the Laetentur Caeli unity decree but relocated when plague hit the city in 1438.
  • Aftermath — The Council of Florence's unity decision was quickly renounced by one group after they returned home from the council.

Runs with

Florence
Florence Nightingale
shares name with host city open card →
PopeBonfire of the Vanities

The ladder · 3 clues

H

Though it finally agreed on a decree of unity, the Laetentur Caeli, that decision was quickly renounced by one of the groups after they returned home. :Name this ecumenical council, which was forced to move when a plague hit the city where it had begun to meet in 1438.

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One of the last major acts by the Palaeologan emperors was participation in this decade-long council, which began in 1431 as an attempt to repair the schism between the Orthodox and Catholic churches. The Greeks agreed to accept the Filioque clause and doctrines like purgatory at this council.

E

Popes from this family include Clement VII and Leo X, and this family included Cosimo and Lorenzo the Magnificent. name this family of Grand Dukes from Florence.

#1180 · Biblical Figures · Level 3

Mary

Mary
Vassil · Public domain

English royal name · 16th–17th centuries (monarchs) · England, Scotland

Mary names two Catholic monarchs: Mary I of England, called 'Bloody Mary' for Protestant persecutions, and Mary Queen of Scots, executed for treason.

The kit

  • Mary I's reignMary I of England suppressed Wyatt's Rebellion after announcing her marriage to Philip of Spain and oversaw Thomas Cranmer's execution.
  • Protestant persecution — Mary I's persecution of over 500 Protestants, recorded in Foxe's Book of Martyrs, earned her the nickname 'Bloody Mary.'
  • Mary Queen of Scots — Mary Queen of Scots was accused of conspiring with the Earl of Bothwell to murder Lord Darnley and writing the Casket Letters.
  • Betrayal and captivity — Mary Queen of Scots was betrayed by nobles under William Kirkcaldy after an agreement at Carberry Hill.

Runs with

church
Gilbert Stuart
no connection evident in clues open card →
Glorious RevolutionBishop

The ladder · 6 clues

H

That monarch of this name was accused of conspiring with the Earl of Bothwell to order the murder of Lord Darnley and of writing the Casket Letters.

H

Given name of two Catholic monarchs, one of whom was "Queen of Scots" and one who was nicknamed "Bloody."

M

A Jamaican-born woman with this name treated soldiers fighting around Balaklava and Sevastopol in her “British Hotel.” give the first name of a self-funded Crimean War nurse with surname Seacole.

M

Edwin Stanton ordered this woman to be removed from a room in the Peterson House, as she was too emotional over the shooting of her husband. name this First Lady during the Civil War.

M

After the failure of his rebellion, Gabriel Prosser tried to escape on this ship, which was captained by Richardson Taylor. It's also the first name of a young Massachusetts Bay colonist who wrote a captivity narrative after being kidnapped in King Philip's War.

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Another monarch with this name suppressed Wyatt’s Rebellion after the announcement of her marriage to Philip of Spain and oversaw the execution of Thomas Cranmer. give the name shared by James I’s mother and a Queen whose persecution of Protestants gave rise to her nickname “Bloody”.

10 more clues from the record
H

William Mumler took a photograph of this woman that supposedly shows the ghost of her dead husband in the background.

H

One monarch with this name was betrayed by nobles under William Kirkcaldy after an agreement at Carberry Hill.

H

This woman accused Elizabeth Keckley of violating her privacy by publishing Behind the Scenes.

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This woman was represented by James Bradwell after she was involuntarily committed to Bellevue Place.

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This resident of Mulberry Plantation claimed that Harriet Beecher Stowe missed the "sorest spot" of slavery by making Legree a bachelor, since she could have had him "a magnate who runs a hideous black harem...under the same roof with his lovely white wife and his beautiful and accomplished daughters." Her most famous work was edited by C. Vann Woodward after being prominently featured in Edmund Wilson's Patriotic Gore.

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Before her election, this politician served as executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and as a herring and salmon technician. This first Alaska Native in Congress defeated Sarah Palin on a platform of “Fish, Family, Freedom.”

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Anti-Slavery Society secretary Thomas Pringle financed that narrative by a “West Indian slave” with this first name, who was unintentionally set free when her owners brought her to London in 1832.

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If, when water is thrown on them they do not sizz, they won’t do.” Kenneth S. Lynn accused this author of "fabrication," due to the extensive 1881 to 1884 revisions of this author's most famous work.

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Answer these questions about the martyrs in John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. :Foxe recorded the more than 500 Protestant persecutions overseen by a queen of this name, whose actions during the persecutions earned her the nickname “Bloody”.

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A pirate with this first name tried to avoid execution alongside Anne Bonny by “pleading the belly.” This first name also belongs to a “bloody” Queen of England who killed Protestants in the sixteenth century.

Watch out: Mary Todd Lincoln (Civil War First Lady) shares the first name but is not a monarch
#1224 · Biblical and Religious Texts · Level 3

Ninety-Five Theses

Ninety-Five Theses
bdi Martin Luther /span /a · Public domain

theological propositions · 1517 · Wittenberg

Ninety-Five Theses were Martin Luther's propositions attacking indulgences and papal wealth, sparking the Protestant Reformation in 1517.

The kit

  • Content — Ninety-Five Theses attacked the sale of indulgences and the doctrine that souls could "fly out of purgatory" after payment.
  • Theological argument — Ninety-Five Theses asserted that "the true treasure of the Church is the Most Holy Gospel" while denouncing the Treasury of Merit.
  • Publication — Ninety-Five Theses were apocryphally nailed to Wittenberg Castle church door in October 1517, though Luther likely distributed them otherwise.
  • Response — Ninety-Five Theses prompted papal bull Exsurge Domine identifying 41 mistakes and sparked the Protestant Reformation's schism within Western Christianity.

Runs with

church
criticized Catholic Church's focus on works of men rather than God open card →
Martin Luther
written by Luther to initiate debate on indulgences open card →
Indulgences
attacked indulgence sales, especially Johann Tetzel's promises of shortening purgatory open card →
Protestant Reformation
sparked the Reformation schism within Western Christianity open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

Number of theses nailed to a church door by Martin Luther

H

Luther attacked the sale of indulgences in this document, which he nailed to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church in 1517.

M

The papal bull Exsurge Domine [ex-oor-gay doh-me-nay] identified 41 mistakes in this work. name this list of complaints directed towards the Catholic Church and its policy of indulgences that was apocryphally nailed to a door in Wittenberg by Martin Luther.

M

Earlier, this document attacks the “human doctrine” that souls can “[fly] out of purgatory” after the payment of an indulgence; that attack is its 27th point. name this document that was posted in Wittenburg in 1517 by Martin Luther, outlining his criticism of the Catholic Church in nearly 100 statements.

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In October 1517 Luther wrote this list of grievances, which denounced the wealth of the papacy.

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Luther wrote this set of propositions to initiate a debate on indulgences, and was apocryphally said to have nailed them to Wittenberg’s church door.

10 more clues from the record
H

This work ends by criticizing the “false security of peace,” citing Acts chapter 14, verse 22 for the idea that “tribulations” provide passage into heaven.

H

Albert of Mainz’s desire for cathedrals prompted the writing of this document, which was anticipated by a similar document written by Andreas Karlstadt.

H

It ends by casting away prophets who say “Peace, peace!” without providing peace.

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In denouncing the doctrine of the Treasury of Merit, the author of this text asserts, “the true treasure of the Church is the Most Holy Gospel.” A lengthy explanation of this text partially addressed to Johann von Staupitz built on the “theology of the cross” its author had subsequently developed in the Heidelberg Disputation.

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This work argues that the Pope has become too focused on the works of men rather than God and that believers should not have to work through middle men of the Church to obtain forgiveness and salvation. :Name this document that was written in reaction to the practices of Johann Tetzel.

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It updates a claim maid by Saint Lawrence and makes many of its points by using the sentence structure “Christians are to be taught that...” Konrad Wimpina defended the Dominican priest that was the main target of this work by writing a defense whose title puns on it.

H

Doctor Pomeranus was made a university professor for writing the introduction to the second edition of this work, while another thinker refuted this work by claiming ecclesiastical prelates and secular princes would not be bad people if bags of money were destroyed.

H

These works were written in frustration of Leo X’s efforts to generate alms to restore St. Peter’s Basilica. :Name these writings posted to the door of the All Saints Church that challenged Johann Tetzel’s promises of shortening people’s stays in purgatory.

H

One section of this text asserts that “true contrition seeks and loves penalties” and elsewhere highlights the “madness” of the notion that if someone committed “an impossible sin and violated the Mother of God” that the sin could be absolved.

H

The Protestant Reformation was the schism within Western Christianity over the doctrines, rituals, leadership, and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church. :Name this document nailed to a Wittenberg Church in 1517 that sparked the reformation.

Watch out: Andreas Karlstadt wrote a similar document anticipating Luther's work
#1225 · Biblical and Religious Texts · Level 3

Book of Common Prayer

Book of Common Prayer
Church of England · Public domain

Anglican liturgical text · 1549–present · England

Book of Common Prayer is the liturgical text of the Church of England primarily written by Thomas Cranmer and first published in 1549.

The kit

  • Creation — Book of Common Prayer was written by Thomas Cranmer and promulgated through the 1549 Act of Uniformity during Edward VI's reign.
  • Language — Book of Common Prayer gave English many familiar phrases including 'ashes to ashes' and 'till death do us part'.
  • Revisions — Book of Common Prayer was modified at the Hampton Court Conference and the Savoy Conference, which mostly ignored suggested changes including removal of the Ornaments Rubric.
  • Conflicts — Book of Common Prayer sparked the Prayer Book Rebellion in Cornwall and prompted Jenny Geddes to throw a stool at Dean Hannay in Edinburgh.

Runs with

Common
church
used in Episcopal and Methodist church services open card →
Bishop
standardized by Archbishop William Laud under Charles I open card →
Church of England
official liturgical text of the Church of England open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

The first edition of this text was called by the 1559 Act of Uniformity and was primarily written by Thomas Cranmer. name this liturgical text of the Church of England.

H

An early change made to this text was the addition of an “Ornaments Rule.” Further changes to this text were later negotiated at the Hampton Court Conference.

M

Cranmer’s most famous work was this book, published during the reign of Edward VI. It gave us many phrases now familiar to English, such as ‘ashes to ashes’ and ‘till death do us part’.

M

The American church received a text called “The Sunday Service of Methodists in North America,” which was an abridged version of this 1549 book edited by Thomas Cranmer, which includes the Thirty-Nine Articles.

M

The Episcopal Church conducts its services from a 1979 version of this text, which was originally written by Thomas Cranmer. A slightly different version of this text is used for services in the Church of England.

M

Bucer wrote the Censura, an extensive criticism of this first edition of this text. This text was promulgated through the 1549 Act of Uniformity.

7 more clues from the record
H

An essentially unchanged version of this text was adopted by the Savoy Conference.

H

Covenanter Jenny Geddes threw a stool at a minister in protest of the use of this text in Scotland. After being appointed by Charles I, Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud standardized Anglican Rites in this text.

H

Dean Hannay's attempts to use this document prompted Jenny Geddes to throw a stool at him, setting off the St. Giles riot in Edinburgh.

H

Individuals who refused to use this document by a deadline called “Black Bartholomew” were targeted in the Great Ejection.

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At the Savoy Conference, suggested revisions of this document, including the removal of the Ornaments Rubric, were mostly ignored.

H

This document was denounced as a “Christmas game” by rebels in the town of Sampford Courtenay.

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Lord Protector Somerset suppressed a rebellion named for this document that arose in Cornwall during the reign of Edward VI.

Watch out: Martin Bucer (wrote the Censura criticizing the first edition)
#1227 · Biblical and Religious Texts · Level 3

Exsurge Domine

Exsurge Domine
Leo X · Public domain

papal bull · 1520 · Rome

Exsurge Domine was Pope Leo X's 1520 papal bull condemning 41 errors in Martin Luther's writings and demanding recantation within 60 days.

The kit

  • Issuance — Exsurge Domine was issued by Pope Leo X in response to Luther's 95 Theses and subsequent writings against Church teachings.
  • Content — Exsurge Domine condemned 41 specific errors in Luther's works and invoked Peter and Paul's authority to suppress "lying teachers" spreading "pernicious poison."
  • Imagery — Exsurge Domine described the crisis as foxes entering the vineyard to devastate the wine-press and called Luther a "new Porphyry."
  • Aftermath — Exsurge Domine gave Luther 60 days to recant, but he burned the bull, leading to his excommunication a year later.

Runs with

Martin Luther
condemned 41 of his errors and demanded recantation within 60 days open card →
Pope Leo X
issued by this pope to suppress Luther's teachings open card →
church
demanded Luther cease spreading poison against its teachings open card →
Florence

The ladder · 5 clues

H

In response to Luther’s 95 Theses, Pope Leo X issued this papal bull which condemned Luther’s doctrines.

H

It asks what lack of "fatherly charity" has caused its subject to deviate from the Church's teachings and invokes the power of Peter and Paul to suppress the "lying teachers" whose tongues are full of a "deadly poison". :Identify this papal bull of Leo X that preceded Decet Romanum Pontificem and that demands its subject cease spreading "pernicious poison" against the Church and recant 41 of his errors.

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This document relates the central crisis as foxes who have entered the vineyard, seeking to “devastate the wine-press,” and describes its primary addressee as a “new Porphyry.” It cites as support the learned rejections and refutations of the universities of Cologne and Louvian.

H

Martin Luther used jester’s privilege when he suggested that monks should break their chastity vows in one of his polemics in response to this document, which he then burned, leading to his excommunication a year later.

H

Pope Leo X listed 41 errors he had found in Luther's Theses and his other works in this Papal Bull, which gave Luther 60 days to retract those errors.

Watch out: Decet Romanum Pontificem, the subsequent bull that actually excommunicated Luther
#1228 · Biblical and Religious Texts · Level 3

Malleus Maleficarum

Malleus Maleficarum
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain

1487 witch-hunting manual · 1487 · Germany

Malleus Maleficarum was a 1487 treatise by Heinrich Kramer that sparked North European witch hunts and led to approximately sixty thousand deaths.

The kit

  • Content — Malleus Maleficarum's first part emphasizes that disbelieving in witchcraft is heresy, while its second part contains a compendium of fabulous stories.
  • Legal procedures — Malleus Maleficarum's third part deals with legal procedures and advises using the strappado, rack, and other torture devices on accused women.
  • Influence — Malleus Maleficarum relied heavily on the Formicarius of Johannes Nider and was inspired by Nicholas Eymeric's directory and Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica.
  • Authorization — Malleus Maleficarum included as its preface Pope Innocent VIII's bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, though its University of Cologne approbation letter is believed forged.

Runs with

Witches
manual for finding, trying, and executing practitioners of sorcery open card →
University
fraudulently claimed endorsement from University of Cologne open card →
church
included papal bull by Innocent VIII as preface open card →
Bishop

The ladder · 6 clues

H

This treatise on witches by Heinrich Kramer contributed to the obsession with witch hunts.

H

[MODERATOR: Do not reveal alternate answers for the first part of the bonus.] One of the possible authors for this text supposedly wrote it after he was expelled from Innsbruck. :What text is frequently credited to Heinrich Kramer and sometimes Jacob Sprenger, although most modern historians doubt Sprenger's involvement? It was heavily inspired by treatises like Formicarius.

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Its sections include "remedies prescribed against hailstorms" and the always exciting "how, as it were, they deprive man of his virile member." Its first part emphasizes that any person who disbelieves in the subject of this book is a heretic, and this text by Heinrich Kraemer and Johann Sprenger led to about sixty thousand deaths. name this book which described how to find, try, and execute practitioners of sorcery, a 1487 text that sparked the North European witch hunts.

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The third and final part deals with legal procedures, and the work contains as its preface a Bull of Pope Innocent VIII. name this theological document that was codified from Alpine peasant folklore and produced by the Dominicans Johann Sprenger and Heinrich Kraemer, which served as a handbook for aiding Christians in preventing sorceresses from living.

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This text, attributed to Jacob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, advises using the strappado, rack, and other torture devices to extract “confessions” from accused women, who would then often be burned at the stake. name this fifteenth-century text whose Latin name suggests it is a guide to hunting witches.

M

Because its author failed to get this text approved from the rectors, the letter of approbation from the faculty of the University of Cologne in this text’s preface is believed to be forged.

9 more clues from the record
H

Perhaps the authoritative treatise on witch classification was this manual composed by Heinrich Kramer after he had been exiled by the Bishop Georg Golser for being crazy and torturing pretty much everyone.

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It relied heavily on the Formicarius of Johannes Nider, and most published versions included a forward containing the bull Summis desiderantes affectibus. :Identify this work of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger.

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A directory written by the friar Nicholas Eymeric and Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica inspired the three parts of this text, which includes a papal bull by Innocent VIII justifying its reasoning.

H

The Summis desiderantes affectibus, by Letters Apostolic, ordered Albrecht von Bayern, Bishop of Strasburg, to aid this work’s authors as they traveled through Salzburg, Bremen, and Northern Germany.

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It was preceded by the less influential Formicaris of John Nider and its claims were partially upheld in Ulrich Molitoris’ De Lamiis even though it fraudulently claimed endorsement from the University of Cologne.

H

This book was supposedly written after its author was expelled from the city of Innsbruck after he was caught having an affair with Helena Scheuberin .

H

This text and a “compendium” by Francesco Guazzo that it inspired were first translated into English by Montague Summers.

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Its first part delineates a certain heresy, while its second part contains a compendium of fabulous stories.

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Its composition was ordered as a fulfillment of Exodus 22:18, in the bull Summis Desiderantes by Innocent VIII.

Watch out: Jacob Sprenger is frequently credited as co-author, but most modern historians doubt his involvement
#1229 · Biblical and Religious Texts · Level 3

Institutes of the Christian Religion

Institutes of the Christian Religion
John Calvin (1509-1564) · Public domain

Theological treatise · 1536 (first edition) · Switzerland

Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's systematic exposition of Reformed Protestant theology organized into four books.

The kit

  • Structure — Institutes of the Christian Religion consists of four books covering God the Father, Christ the Redeemer, the Holy Spirit, and the Church.
  • Doctrine — Institutes of the Christian Religion outlines central points of Calvinism including Total Depravity, the four effects of faith, and two paths to repentance.
  • Sacraments — Institutes of the Christian Religion's final book defends paedobaptism and discusses five ceremonies falsely called sacraments.
  • Dedication — Institutes of the Christian Religion includes a dedication to King Francis explaining Calvin's reasons for leaving France.

Runs with

John Calvin
Calvin's major theological work open card →
church
Book four examines the Church open card →
Switzerland
Written after Calvin fled France open card →
Brezhnev Doctrine
No connection evident in clues open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

Its final book includes chapters on the misery of taking vows rashly, a discussion of five ceremonies that are “falsely called sacraments,” and a defense of paedobaptism.

H

In this work’s final chapter, we learn that Saint Paul didn’t condemn lawsuits as such, but only objected to the excessive litigiousness of the Corinthians.

M

One of his greatest works, this theological tract by Calvin outlines the basics of the Reformed Church and describes the four effects of faith and the two paths to repentence.

M

It consists of four books in all, which consider God the father, Christ the redeemer, the Holy Spirit as man’s bond to Christ, and the Church.

E

In the dedication addressed to King Francis, the author explains his reasons for leaving France. name this work by John Calvin.

E

John Calvin wrote this book in which he outlined the central points of Calvinism.

2 more clues from the record
H

In book 1, the author offers the fact that Moses says bad things about his ancestors as a “rational proof” of the veracity of Scripture.

M

You can read more about Total Depravity in this book, the major theological work of John Calvin.

#1230 · Biblical and Religious Texts · Level 3

King James Bible

King James Bible
Church of England · Public domain

English Bible translation · 1604–1611 · England

King James Bible is an English translation commissioned in 1604 and completed in 1611 by forty-seven scholars working in six groups.

The kit

  • Rise — King James Bible was commissioned at the Hampton Court Conference in response to the Millenary Petition seeking to remove Catholic influence.
  • Achievements — King James Bible built on earlier translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale and eventually became the most widely printed book in history.
  • Legacy — King James Bible had misprinted editions including the 'Wicked Bible' which accidentally commanded 'Thou shalt commit adultery,' leading to the printer's torture and fine.
  • Achievements — King James Bible reflected an episcopal structure for the Church of England and the idea of an ordained clergy as desired by its namesake.

Runs with

Bible
English translation of this text open card →
Richard
Richard Bancroft oversaw the translation open card →
Bancroft
oversaw the translation project open card →
Church of England
reflected episcopal structure for this institution open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

The leader of this project was the subject of a popular contemporary ballad that spoke of him finding his wife “even upon Sir John Selby’s bed/ as flat as any flounder”.

H

This project was preceded by a previous iteration named for “the Bishops”, and one botched portion of this project led to mentions of a “great asse” rather than “greatnesse”.

M

The namesake leader who commissioned this book wanted to ensure that it reflected an episcopal structure for the Church of England and the idea of an ordained clergy. name this book, which before 1666 contained the Apochrypha, along with Old and New Testaments, which was commissioned by the then-King of England and was known at the time as the “Authorized Version.”

M

The conference resulted in the creation of this book under the oversight of Richard Bancroft. This translation of the Bible eventually became the most widely printed book in history.

E

Its first edition was divided into the “he” and “she” editions due to a printer’s error, and it later had “Vinegar” and “Wicked” variants, the latter of which accidentally printed a commandment as “Thou shalt commit adultery.” identify this translation of the Bible, named for the British monarch who commissioned it.

E

This project built on the work of scholars such as Myles Coverdale and William Tyndale. name this project, one misprinted version of which commanded its readers to commit adultery, leading to its printer being tortured and fined by its namesake monarch.

8 more clues from the record
H

The writing of this book was discussed at the Hampton Court Conference, in response to the Millenary Petition, which hoped to remove any remaining “Catholic influence” from it.

H

At the request of John Reynolds at the Hampton Court Conference, forty-seven scholars worked in six groups to produce it.

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It was seven years in the making and involved forty-seven translators. :Name this English Bible which was issued in 1611 and named for its royal patron.

M

It's been theorized that William Shakespeare made this translation of the Bible, which was commissioned by its namesake monarch to update the Geneva and Tyndale Bibles.

M

That production notably also left out a crucial “not” in an instruction to remain faithful to one’s spouse.

M

Lancelot Andrewes supervised this project, which was reproduced by Cambridge University in 1769.

E

This English translation of the Bible was begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. Richard Bancroft oversaw this standard Anglican Bible, which takes its name from the British king who faced the Gunpowder Plot.

E

The Book of Common Prayer was revised at the Hampton Court Conference, a meeting better known for commissioning this project. Richard Bancroft oversaw this project.

Watch out: Bishops' Bible (earlier translation that preceded this project)
#1383 · French Monarchs · Level 3

Francis I of France

Francis I of France
bdi Jean Clouet /span /a · Public domain

Valois King of France · r. 1515–1547 · France

Francis I of France was a Valois monarch who fought Charles V in the Italian Wars and reversed his Protestant toleration after the Affair of the Placards.

The kit

  • Rise — Francis I defeated the Swiss mercenaries at Marignano in 1515 and was knighted by the chevalier Bayard.
  • Achievements — Francis I issued the Ordonnance of Villers-Cotterêts, replacing Latin with French as the bureaucratic language in his realm.
  • Conflicts — Francis I was captured at the Battle of Pavia in 1525, writing "nothing remains to me except honor and life."
  • Legacy — Francis I invited Leonardo da Vinci to work in France and obtained copies of every published book through the Ordonnance of Montpelier.

Runs with

Charles V
fought Charles V in Italian Wars, captured by him at Pavia open card →
France
Valois king who made French the bureaucratic language open card →
Gold
met Henry VIII at Field of the Cloth of Gold summit open card →
Roman Emperor
rival Charles V held this title during Italian Wars open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

After an anti-Catholic poster was attached to this man’s bedchamber in the Affair of the Placards, he reversed his previous toleration of Protestants.

H

This man obtained a copy of every book published in his realm with the Ordonnance of Montpelier, and the Ordonnance of Villiers-Cotterˆets replaced Latin as the bureaucratic language with French.

M

French king that fought Charles in the Italian Wars but was captured at Pavia.

M

The Treaty of Madrid was rejected by this monarch after being held captive, where he wrote “nothing remains to me except honor and life.” Leonardo da Vinci was invited to work in France by this monarch who lost the Battle of Pavia to Emperor Charles V.

E

This king held a summit with a northern rival at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. name this Valois king of France, a contemporary of Charles V and Henry VIII.

E

This man won a wrestling match after being challenged by King Henry VIII during the negotiation of the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

10 more clues from the record
H

This monarch ordered the massacre of Waldensians in Mérindol after turning against Protestantism in the Affair of the Placards.

H

This husband of Maria Theresa was recognized as Holy Roman Emperor after the Treaty of Dresden.

H

Jean de Bernuy’s wealth was so great that he was able to be the guarantor of this French king when he was captured at the battle of Pavia.

H

After he defeated the supposedly invincible Swiss mercenaries of Duke Sforza and Pope Leo X at Marignano, he was knighted by the chevalier Bayard.

H

He was spurned on the Field of the Cloth of Gold and later be taken prisoner at Pavia in 1525.

H

This man declared “all is lost save honour” after his most disastrous defeat, which forced him to sign the Treaty of Madrid.

H

This ruler’s blockade of Nice was aided by an Ottoman fleet, to which he had leased the port of Toulon.

H

King who won the battle of Marignano and joined the Ottomans in the Unholy Alliance?

H

After this ruler’s victory at the Battle of Marignano, this leader signed the Perpetual Peace with Switzerland.

H

This king’s reign saw his nation win the battle of Ceserole against his arch rival and defeat a Swiss army at the battle of Marignano. Shortly after that latter victory, he agreed to the Concordat of Bologna which increased his power to tithe and appoint bishops, while deferring to the conciliar supremacy of Pope Leo X. Another event during his reign was the Affair of the Placards, which helped turn him against Protestant concessions.

Watch out: One clue incorrectly states Francis I was husband of Maria Theresa and recognized as Holy Roman Emperor after Treaty of Dresden (confusion with later Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor)
#1403 · Named Works of Visual Art · Level 3

Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Antoine Taveneaux · CC BY-SA 3.0

Vatican fresco cycle · early 16th century · Vatican City

Sistine Chapel Ceiling is Michelangelo's massive Vatican fresco featuring nine Genesis scenes including the Creation of Adam.

The kit

  • Genesis scenes — Sistine Chapel Ceiling includes nine scenes from the Book of Genesis arranged across the central section.
  • Creation of Adam — Sistine Chapel Ceiling's central section shows God preparing to touch Adam's finger in the famous Creation of Adam.
  • Noah — Sistine Chapel Ceiling's final Genesis scene depicts a drunk and disgraced Noah after the flood.
  • Anatomical detail — Sistine Chapel Ceiling appears to show a human brain as figures surround God in the Creation of Adam.

Runs with

Pope
commissioned by the Pope open card →
Michelangelo
painted by Michelangelo open card →
Renaissance
major Renaissance artwork open card →
Alexander

The ladder · 3 clues

H

This work includes nine scenes from the Book of Genesis, the final of which shows a drunk and disgraced Noah.

M

The central section of this work appears to show a human brain as figures surround God who is preparing to touch the title figure’s finger.

E

The Creation of Adam is part of this massive artwork by Michelangelo for a religious building in the Vatican.

#1405 · Named Works of Visual Art · Level 3

Pelican Portrait

Pelican Portrait
bdi Attributed to Nicholas Hilliard /span /a · Public domain

Portrait of Elizabeth I · Elizabethan era · England

Pelican Portrait is a portrait of Elizabeth I by Nicholas Hilliard featuring a pelican pendant symbolizing self-sacrificing rule.

The kit

  • Symbolism — Pelican Portrait shows Elizabeth I wearing a pendant of a pelican cutting open its own chest to feed its young.
  • Artist — Pelican Portrait was created by Nicholas Hilliard, who depicted the pendant as a metaphor for Elizabeth's rule.
  • Meaning — Pelican Portrait uses the pelican pendant as a heavy-handed metaphor for Elizabeth's self-sacrificing rule over England.

Runs with

George Washington
A Washington portrait was saved during Battle of Bladensburg open card →
White House
A Washington portrait was saved when White House burned open card →
Johnwomen

The ladder · 3 clues

H

A portrait of Elizabeth I by Nicholas Hilliard carries this name, since the subject wears a pendant of a certain animal cutting open its own chest to provide food for its young, a rather heavy-handed metaphor for Elizabeth’s self-sacrificing rule.

M

This slave of the Madison family saved the Landsdowne portrait during the burning of Washington.

E

A portrait of George Washington was saved during the Battle of Bladensburg in this war, which saw the burning of the White House.

Watch out: Confused with portraits of George Washington saved during War of 1812
#1462 · Other Continental European Monarchs · Level 3

Philip II of Spain

Philip II of Spain
bdi Sofonisba Anguissola /span /a · Public domain

Spanish Habsburg king · r. 1556–1598 · Spain

Philip II of Spain was the Habsburg monarch who championed the Counter-Reformation, built El Escorial, and launched the failed Spanish Armada against England.

The kit

  • Rise — Philip II of Spain inherited the throne from his father Charles V and consolidated power in Italy by signing the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis with Francis II.
  • Achievements — Philip II of Spain built the Escorial palace and saw his half-brother John of Austria defeat an Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto.
  • Conflicts — Philip II of Spain sent the Spanish Armada under the Duke of Medina Sidonia, which lost at Gravelines, and failed to suppress the Dutch Revolt.
  • Legacy — Philip II of Spain's reign is the focus of Fernand Braudel's influential Annales school work The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World.

Runs with

Spanish Armada
ordered its failed 1588 invasion of England open card →
Mary
Portugal
ruled all Iberia as son of Isabella of Portugal open card →
Charles V
inherited Spanish throne from this father open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

His signing of the Treaty of Joinville prompted another ruler to sign the Treaty of Nonsuch.

H

The most influential study by Annales historian Fernand Braudel is titled for The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of this monarch.

M

During his reign, an Ottoman fleet commanded by Sufi Ali Pasha was defeated by this king’s half-brother John of Austria in the Battle of Lepanto.

M

This king of Spain, a son of Charles V, sent the Armada.

E

This man ordered the Duke of Medina Sidonia to lead an invasion that lost at Gravelines [grav-LEEN]. name this son of Charles V who ordered the failed Spanish Armada.

E

Fernand Braudel’s Mediterranean is primarily focused during the reign of this Spanish monarch, who sent the Spanish Armada to invade England.

10 more clues from the record
H

Cultural changes under this employer of Alexander Farnese were described in a Fernand Braudel work about the “Mediterranean World in the Age of” this monarch.

H

This man’s brother John of Austria won the Battle of Lepanto during his reign.

H

After this king’s troops lost at the siege of Amiens, he signed the Treaty of Vervins [vair-VAH] with Henry IV.

H

The Annales (aa-NAAL) school historian Fernand Braudel (fair-nan BRO-del) wrote about The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of this monarch in a 1949 book.

H

A duke serving this king imposed the hated "tenth penny" tax on commerce.

H

This king appointed the Duke of Alba as Governor of the Netherlands, and he built the Escorial.

H

A claim to English throne was made by this king, who organized the Spanish Armada. He also notably failed in putting down the Dutch Revolt.

H

This man appointed Antoine Granvelle chief counselor to Margaret of Parma, and he fought against Henry IV of France as part of the Catholic League during the French Wars of Religion.

H

As the son of Isabella of Portugal and Charles V, this monarch ruled all of Iberia. :Name this champion of the Counter Reformation who built El Escorial and launched the Spanish Armada.

H

This man instituted a group of taxes known as the “Three Graces.” This ruler consolidated power in Italy by signing the Peace of Cateau Cambrésis with Francis II.

Watch out: John of Austria (his half-brother who won Lepanto, not Philip himself)
#1497 · General · Level 3

Jesuits

Jesuits
Moranski · Public domain

Catholic religious order · 1540–present · global

Jesuits are a Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, known for missionary work and education.

The kit

  • Founding — Jesuits were founded by Ignatius of Loyola, a Spanish soldier wounded at the Siege of Pamplona who wrote The Spiritual Exercises.
  • Asian missions — Jesuits conducted extensive 16th-century Asian missions led by Francis Xavier, spreading Catholicism to India, Japan, and China.
  • American work — Jesuits created "reductions" in South America to protect indigenous peoples and integrated settlers with Hurons in New France.
  • Suppression & legacy — Jesuits were suppressed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773 but later restored and now run numerous universities worldwide.

Runs with

Pope
Pope Francis is the first Jesuit pope open card →
Japan
Jesuits were first to spread Catholicism to Japan open card →
church
approved by papal bull Regimini militantis Ecclesiae open card →
China
expelled by Emperor Kangxi during Chinese rites controversy open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

The founder of this order was wounded at the Siege of Pamplona and wrote The Spiritual Exercises. name this religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola.

H

Ignatius of Loyola founded this Christian order also known as the Society of Jesus.

M

One member of this group, Jean de Brébeuf integrated settlers of New France with the Hurons, and members of this group who traveled to Asia included Matteo Ricci and St. Francis Xavier.

M

This group created settlements known as "reductions" in South America, where they resisted raids by slave traders.

E

Pope Francis is the first pope to be a member of this order. name this Catholic order founded by Ignatius of Loyola, known for its universities.

E

The founder of this order was a Spanish soldier who was wounded in battle and wrote the Spiritual Exercises. name this Catholic order founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola.

10 more clues from the record
H

In the 1773 brief Dominus ac Redemptor, Clement XIV ordered the suppression of this group.

H

The bull Regimini militantis Ecclesiae approved of this group’s formation, but limited it to 60 members until Pope Julius III removed that limit.

H

One member of this organization was the Polish martyr Andrew Bobola.

H

Another member of this group was the first to publish a grammar of the Coptic language and is considered the “founder of Egyptology.” Athanasius Kircher was a member of this group, which also included one of the judges who agreed to the sentencing of Giordano Bruno to death in 1600; that theologian argued against heliocentrism at the trial of Galileo.

H

Emperor Kangxi expelled members of this order as a result of the aforementioned “Chinese rites controversy.” Francis Xavier spread its teachings to India and China.

H

A map called the “Impossible Black Tulip” was created by a member of this organization who was the first European to document the Kaifeng Jews.

H

This organization was the target of the forged Monita Secreta instructions and lost influence after Antoine Lavalette’s investments in Martinique went bankrupt.

H

One of these people from Belgium named Pieter-Jan De Smet advised his friend Sitting Bull to sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie. Another of these people compiled one of the first and most extensive Kaskaskia dictionaries in Illinois.

H

Missionaries from this order created the Vietnamese alphabet and were the first to spread Catholicism to Japan as part of its 16th-century Asian mission led by Francis Xavier.

H

A Flemish man in this organization, known as Bai Yingli in Qing [] China, brought one of the first native-born Chinese men to Europe.

Watch out: Franciscans (another major Catholic missionary order founded by a saint)
#1567 · General · Level 3

Sir Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake
bdi Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger /span /a · Public domain

English privateer and admiral · 1540–1596 · England, global voyages

Sir Francis Drake was an English privateer who circumnavigated the globe aboard the Golden Hind and helped defeat the Spanish Armada.

The kit

  • Rise — Sir Francis Drake executed captain Thomas Doughty for witchcraft after losing sight of the Swan during a storm.
  • Achievements — Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe and claimed California as New Albion, leaving a bronze plaque in the San Francisco Bay area.
  • Conflicts — Sir Francis Drake destroyed at least 27 Spanish ships at Cádiz in the Singeing of the King of Spain's Beard, delaying the Armada.
  • Death — Sir Francis Drake survived a cannonball through his cabin at the Battle of San Juan but died of dysentery days later.

Runs with

Spanish Armada
commanded the Golden Hind against it alongside Hawkins and Effingham open card →
Elizabeth I
hired by her as privateer to attack Spanish fleet open card →
Spain
raided Cádiz and seized treasure from the São Filipe open card →
John
commanded alongside John Hawkins against the Spanish Armada open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

After losing sight of the Swan during a storm, this man accused the captain Thomas Doughty of witchcraft and had him executed.

H

The Golden Hind was commanded by this privateer and admiral, who teamed with Hawkins and Effingham to defeat the Spanish Armada.

M

During Elizabeth’s fight against the Spanish Armada, she hired this privateer who attacked the Spanish fleet at Cadiz and later circumnavigated the globe for England.

M

This man destroyed at least 27 Spanish ships at the Bay of Cádiz in the Singeing of the King of Spain's Beard.

E

Privateer employed by Britain who “singed the beard of the King of Spain” in a raid at Cadiz.

E

This man was described as having “singed the king of Spain’s beard” in his attack on Cadiz that delayed the Spanish Armada. name this English sea captain who circumnavigated the globe aboard the Golden Hind.

10 more clues from the record
H

This man’s home at Buckland Abbey legendarily contains a drum that can call this man to defend his country.

H

When this man landed in California, he declared the land as New Albion.

H

This man survived a cannonball through his ship cabin at the Battle of San Juan but died of dysentery days later.

H

This man arrested William Burroughs after he opposed this man’s plans to sail to the Isle of Terceira.

H

Along with John Norreys, this man was responsible for killing over 600 Scottish people in the Rathlin Island Massacre.

H

This man’s revenge for the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa occurred at Nombre de Dios.

H

He named an object in honor of his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose crest was a female red deer.

H

This man commanded a fleet that seized a treasure worth over thirty million present- day pounds from the São Filipe [[SOW fil-EEP-ee]].

H

On another expedition, this man left a bronze plaque to claim the San Francisco Bay area after landing in New Albion.

H

Privateer who took the original colonists back to England in 1586, less than a decade after circumnavigating the globe.

Watch out: John Hawkins (fellow commander against the Spanish Armada)
#1572 · General · Level 3

Spanish Armada

Spanish Armada
Robert Adams, Augustine Ryther · Public domain

Spanish invasion fleet · 1588 · English Channel

The Spanish Armada was a massive naval fleet sent by Philip II in 1588 to invade England and depose Elizabeth I.

The kit

  • Command — The Spanish Armada was commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia and sailed with the São Martinho as flagship.
  • Objectives — The Spanish Armada aimed to join with the Duke of Parma's Army of Flanders and stop English support for Dutch rebels.
  • Defeat — The Spanish Armada was devastated at the Battle of Gravelines by English fire ships and dispersed by the Protestant Wind.
  • Legacy — The Spanish Armada's approach prompted Elizabeth I's Tilbury Speech, declaring she had the heart and stomach of a king.

Runs with

Elizabeth I
rallied troops at Tilbury against the Armada open card →
Philip II of Spain
sent the Armada to invade England open card →
Philip
sent the Armada to invade England open card →
Sir Francis Drake

The ladder · 6 clues

H

The flagship of this unit was the São Martinho, and the overall commander of this fleet was the Duke of Medina Sidonia.

H

The Duke of Medina Sidonia commanded this force, which was designed to prevent interference in the Netherlands but was devastated at the Battle of Gravelines.

M

A queen declared that she possessed “the heart and stomach of a king” while rallying resistance against this group in the Tilbury Speech.

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Philip sent this fleet of ships under the command of the Duke of Medina-Sedonia to attack England in 1588.

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The Duke of Medina Sidonia led this group, which failed to join with the Duke of Parma. name this fleet that attempted an invasion of England in 1588.

E

This entity’s failure was attributed to the “Protestant Wind”, and it was sent to force one country to stop supporting Dutch rebels in the Eighty Years War. name this massive naval fleet commanded by Phillip II whose goal was to invade England.

10 more clues from the record
H

Troops preparing to confront this force were told "I have the heart and stomach of a king" by their leader at Tilbury.

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As revenge against this group, John Norreys attacked Corunna.

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This force was created by King Philip II and it only fought one major battle at the battle of Gravelines. :This force that was defeated by the Royal Navy commanded by Francis Drake in 1588.

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The seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia led this failed naval expedition of 1588 that sought to depose Elizabeth I but was defeated by English fire ships and dispersed by the so-called “Protestant wind.”

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William FitzWilliam executed a number of survivors of this campaign in Ireland.

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This entity targeted a country that had just agreed, in the Treaty of Nonsuch, to support Dutch rebels.

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The leader who sent this force quipped that “He sent [this] against men, not God’s wind and waves”.

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This military force was sponsored by Pope Sixtus V, who treated it as a crusade and gave its sponsors a subsidy.

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Sir Francis Drake bragged that he had “singed the beard” of the king after striking this group at Cadiz.

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Prior to this force’s expected deployment of the Army of Flanders, its opponents were rallied by the Tilbury Speech.

Watch out: Duke of Parma commanded land forces, not the Armada itself
#1603 · Historic Cities · Level 3

Geneva

Geneva
fr:Utilisateur:Stéphane_Pecorini · CC BY-SA 2.0 fr

Swiss city · founded antiquity; prominence 16th–20th c. · Lake Geneva, western Switzerland

Geneva is a Swiss city that served as John Calvin's theocratic base and later housed the League of Nations.

The kit

  • Reformation center — Geneva became the center of John Calvin's semi-theocratic government during the 16th century, where he instituted many reforms.
  • Religious conflicts — Geneva's Protestant council ordered Michael Servetus burned at the stake for preaching Sabellianism and anti-infant baptism.
  • L'Escalade — Geneva annually celebrates L'Escalade to commemorate defeating Duke Charles Emmanuel I's 1602 surprise attack on the city.
  • International diplomacy — Geneva housed the League of Nations headquarters from 1920 and hosted conventions establishing wartime rights and the Vietnam partition accords.

Runs with

John Calvin
led Geneva's government and preached there open card →
Switzerland
Geneva is a Swiss city and canton open card →
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Geneva Accords partitioned Vietnam after Dien Bien Phu open card →
church
Calvin instituted church reforms in Geneva open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

Swiss city where the League was headquartered and where Conventions against war crimes were signed.

H

For preaching Sabellianism and anti-infant baptism, Michael Servetus was burned at the stake on the orders of this Protestant city’s council.

M

Swiss city that hosted multiple conventions that established the rights of the wounded and civilians in wartime.

M

Calvin became the spiritual leader of this Swiss city, where he instituted many reforms.

E

John Calvin preached his namesake doctrine in this city, which was an independent canton at the time. This city lies on a namesake lake on the border between Switzerland and France.

E

When exiled from England, John Knox went to this city, then governed by the author of the Institutes of the Christian Religion.

10 more clues from the record
H

Catherine Cheynel foiled a surprise attack on this city by Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy by pouring soup on the attackers, which is commemorated in l’Escalade.

H

French reformer John Calvin led a semi-theocratic government in this city during the 16th century.

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Every year, this city celebrates the defeat of Duke Charles Emmanuel I’s attempts to have his army scale its walls on L’Escalade.

H

A popular legend in this city holds that a pot of hot soup was poured over soldiers attempting to scale its defenses in 1602.

H

Gregory of Tours wrote about a massive tsunami caused by a landslide that destroyed this city in the sixth century.

H

This city annually celebrates L'escalade, to commemorate the defeat of a 1602 surprise attack led by the Duke of Savoy.

H

The accords where France withdrew from Vietnam were signed in what city whose namesake conventions establish the standards for international law on warfare?

H

The League of Nations headquarters was moved from London to this neutral city in 1920, remaining so until the League's dissolution.

H

Accords named for which Swiss city partitioned French Indochina, including the creation of South and North Vietnam?

H

In this city's Congress of Peace, it was determined that the Holy See shouldhaveits sovereignty revoked.

Watch out: Lake Geneva (the lake, not the city itself)
#1615 · General · Level 3

Borgia family

Borgia family
MostEpic · CC BY-SA 4.0

Italian Renaissance dynasty · 15th–16th centuries · Italy, Spain

Borgia family was a Spanish-origin dynasty that produced two popes and became synonymous with Renaissance political intrigue and alleged poisoning.

The kit

  • Rise — Borgia family produced Pope Callixtus III, who vindicated Joan of Arc and allegedly excommunicated Halley's Comet during the Siege of Belgrade.
  • Achievements — Borgia family member Rodrigo became Pope Alexander VI in 1492 after allegedly using four mule loads of silver to bribe voters.
  • Conflicts — Borgia family's Alexander VI formed the League of Venice to oppose Charles VIII's invasion and was the enemy of Girolamo Savonarola.
  • Legacy — Borgia family's Cesare, named Duke of Valentinois by Louis XII, inspired Machiavelli's The Prince through his Romagna campaign and ruthless tactics.

Runs with

Pope Alexander VI
Rodrigo Borgia who became pope in 1492 open card →
The Prince
Cesare Borgia inspired this Machiavelli work open card →
Alexander
Rodrigo took this papal name in 1492 open card →
Pope
family produced Callixtus III and Alexander VI open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

What rival family of Spanish origin included Pope Alexander VI, the poisoner Lucrezia, and the Machiavelli (pr.

H

Pope Callixtus III was a member of this family, as was a pope who issued the bull Inter Caetera, one of his Bulls of Donation.

M

One person with this last name was named Duke of Valentinois by Louis XII of France, and another member of this family became Duchess of Ferrara upon marrying Alfonso d’Este.

M

That man, the enemy of Girolamo Savonarola, had formed the League of Venice to oppose Charles VIII’s invasion of Italy.

E

That man’s son had embarked on the Romagna campaign, and was the inspiration for Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince. name this Italian family whose members included Cesare and Pope Alexander VI.

E

One member of this family held the extremely lavish Banquet of the Chestnuts, in which fifty prostitutes were allegedly in attendance.

10 more clues from the record
H

An apocryphal story suggests that during the Siege of Belgrade another member, PopeCallixtus III, excommunicated Halley’s Comet.

H

The Pope who called the re-trial vindicating Joan of Arc was a member of this family.

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The “Infans Romanus” was born into this family; his mother may have had an affair with a man named Perotto.

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Name these Italian Renaissance families .Rodrigo became Pope Alexander VI, while his son Cesare was praised by Machiavelli and his daughter Lucrezia gained an exaggerated reputation for cruelty.

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That member of this house ordered a posthumous retrial to vindicate Joan of Arc and purportedly excommunicated Halley’s Comet during his service as Pope Callixtus III.

H

Another member of this family legendarily used four mule loads of silver to bribe voters in a 1492 election, helping defeat a rival backed by Charles VIII and Genoa.

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Another member of this family was famously found dead in the Tiber, while his brother, suspected of the murder, fled after the ascension of Julius II and died during a siege in Valencia.

H

One lesser known member of this family was the Prince of Squillace and married Dona Sancha of Aragon, while another member was created the first Duke of Gandia.

H

One member of this family became the patron saint of earthquakes after he renounced his position as Duke of Gandia and became the third leader of the Jesuits.

H

Johann Burchard recounted a gathering held by this family in the Palazzo Apostolico involving fifty naked prostitutes, the Banquet of Chestnuts.

Watch out: Lucrezia Borgia's reputation for cruelty and poisoning was exaggerated
#1641 · British Monarchs · Level 3

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots
bdi François Clouet /span /a · Public domain

Scottish queen · 1542–1587 · Scotland, England

Mary, Queen of Scots was a Catholic Stuart monarch executed by Elizabeth I after being implicated in the Babington Plot.

The kit

  • Rise — Mary, Queen of Scots was sent to France at age five after the Treaty of Greenwich arranged her betrothal, though her first husband Francis II died at sixteen.
  • Conflicts — Mary, Queen of Scots witnessed her secretary David Rizzio stabbed 50 times by a mob led by Patrick Ruthven while she was seven months pregnant.
  • Conflicts — Mary, Queen of Scots lost the Battle of Langside to the Earl of Moray after escaping imprisonment at Loch Leven Castle.
  • Death & succession — Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded after Francis Walsingham used her correspondence with Anthony Babington to convict her of treason.

Runs with

Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I executed her for treason in the Babington Plot open card →
James
gave birth to James I of England with Lord Darnley open card →
Edward
War of Rough Wooing sought her marriage to Edward VI open card →
France
sent to France at five, married Francis II open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

David Rizzio was accused of an affair with this woman; while she was seven months pregnant, Rizzio was stabbed 50 times in front of her by a mob led by Patrick Ruthven.

H

This woman’s betrothal was provided by the Treaty of Greenwich [gren-itch], and her marriage to Edward VI was the goal of the aggressors in the War of the Rough Wooing.

M

Letters sent from this person to the Earl of Bothwell, the Casket Letters, might imply this person killed her husband Lord Darnley.

M

This monarch lost the Battle of Langside to the Earl of Moray after being forced to abdicate and escaping imprisonment at Loch Leven Castle.

E

This Catholic ruler was beheaded shortly after Francis Walsingham implicated her in the Babington Plot. name this Scottish monarch who was executed by Elizabeth I.

E

This woman married Lord Darnley and gave birth to the future king James I of England.

10 more clues from the record
H

This monarch was defeated by rebels at Carberry Hill after an unpopular marriage and led troops against Regent Moray after escaping Loch Leven Castle.

H

This woman’s husband was killed by a gunpowder explosion that leveled a house at Kirk o’ Field.

H

This employer of David Rizzio’s apparent reluctance to marry initiated the so-called War of the Rough Wooing.

H

This woman defeated her half-brother in the Chaseabout Raid, and her private secretary, David Rizzio, was murdered in front of her at a party.

H

This ruler was sent to France at the age of five after a betrothal was finalized, although that marriage ended after her spouse died at sixteen.

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Shortly before her execution, this woman embroidered the motto “In my End is my Beginning” on her cloth of estate.

H

Francis Walsingham used this woman’s correspondence with Anthony Babington to convict her of treason.

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After this woman’s third marriage, Protestant nobles forced her surrender at the Battle of Carberry.

H

Stuart queen who tried to overthrow Elizabeth I and was subsequently executed.

H

The War of the Rough Wooing attempted to arrange a marriage between the six-year old Edward and this infant queen of Scotland. She would later marry both Francis II and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.

Watch out: Confused with Elizabeth I, her cousin who ordered her execution
#1674 · British Monarchs · Level 3

Mary I of England

Mary I of England
bdi Antonis Mor /span /a · Public domain

Tudor Queen of England · 1553–1558 · England

Mary I of England was the Catholic Tudor monarch who executed nearly three hundred Protestants, earning the nickname 'Bloody Mary.'

The kit

  • Rise — Mary I of England succeeded Lady Jane Grey after the Third Succession Act allowed her accession to the throne.
  • Religious persecution — Mary I of England ordered bishops burned at the stake under the Heresy Acts, executing Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley.
  • Marriage & conflicts — Mary I of England married Philip II of Spain, causing severe dissent and provoking Wyatt's Rebellion against her rule.
  • Legacy — Mary I of England briefly reinstated Catholicism in England before her death and succession by Elizabeth I.

Runs with

Elizabeth I
succeeded Mary I after her death open card →
EdwardJohn
Philip II of Spain
married Mary I, causing dissent open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

The Duke of Suffolk helped lead Wyatt’s rebellion against this ruler, who also executed Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley.

H

Monarch who ordered the execution of nearly three hundred Protestants, earning the nickname "Bloody"?

M

This ruler imprisoned the author of the Book of Common Prayer, Thomas Cranmer, after she succeeded Lady Jane Grey.

M

This leader ordered bishops to be burned at the stake as part of the Heresy Acts and made Reginald Pole Archbishop of Canterbury and principal advisor.

E

Known for her violent persecutions of Protestants, name this ruler who re-Catholicized England before she was succeeded by Elizabeth I.

E

Her marriage to Philip II and her Catholicism led to severe dissent among her subjects. name this daughter of Henry VIII and sister of Elizabeth, a Queen noted for her many executions.

10 more clues from the record
H

This queen quickly became unpopular after her marriage to Philip II of Spain. name this English queen who briefly reinstated Catholicism.

H

This ruler’s reign was the subject of the final book of John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.

H

Philip II was briefly married to this Queen of England who burned many Protestants at the stake and was succeeded by Elizabeth I.

H

The Babington plot sought to install this person on the English throne. name this person who was executed by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

H

The Third Succession Act allowed the succession of this monarch, who was opposed by Wyatt’s Rebellion.

H

This person remarked “When I am dead and opened, you will find Calais written on my heart” after Calais was captured by the French.

H

Juan Luis Vives wrote an educational treatise for this monarch.

H

This monarch ordered the release of Stephen Gardiner and Edward Courtenay from prison and later executed John Dudley.

H

This monarch appointed Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, royal envoy to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V but rejected his ambition for the throne.

H

Robert Aske led a popular revolt, known as the Pilgrimage of Grace, aiming to restore this royal to the English line of succession.

Watch out: The Babington plot involved Mary Queen of Scots, not Mary I of England
#1720 · Medieval European Rulers · Level 3

Isabella I of Castile

Isabella I of Castile
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Queen of Castile · 1474–1504 · Castile and Spain

Isabella I of Castile unified Spain through marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon and completed the Reconquista by conquering Granada.

The kit

  • Rise — Isabella I of Castile won a succession crisis against Joanna la Beltraneja, defeating her at the Battle of Toro in 1476.
  • Achievements — Isabella I of Castile conquered the Emirate of Granada in 1492, ending the Reconquista and causing Boabdil's abdication.
  • Conflicts — Isabella I of Castile issued the Alhambra Decree in 1492, expelling all Jews from Spain and weakening the economy.
  • Legacy — Isabella I of Castile sponsored Christopher Columbus' voyages to the New World, beginning Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Runs with

Spain
unified Spain through marriage and conquest open card →
Henry
Ferdinand II of Aragon
married Ferdinand creating dynastic union open card →
Reconquista
completed Reconquista by conquering Granada open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

A dynastic union of Castile and Aragon occurred following the marriage of Ferdinand II to which Iberian monarch?

H

This ruler won a homeland succession crisis against Joanna, the daughter of Henry IV.

M

This ruler expelled all Jews with the Alhambra Decree, weakening her country's economy.

M

She sponsored the trips of an explorer from Genoa who started Spanish colonization of the New World. name this Castilian queen who married Ferdinand II of Aragon and sponsored the trips of Christopher Columbus.

E

This monarch and her husband also sponsored Christopher Columbus’ voyages to the New World. name this wife of Ferdinand of Aragon and co-ruler of a united Spain.

E

This queen of Castile led the conquest of Granada, which, along with her marriage to the king of Aragon, created modern Spain. name this patron of Christopher Columbus who married Ferdinand.

10 more clues from the record
H

Pious queen of Castile who authorized the first Spanish colonization efforts and was married to Ferdinand of Aragon.

H

This monarch succeeded Henry IV after defeating Joanna la Beltraneja at the Battle of Toro.

H

This queen patronized the religious reforms of Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, who pushed this queen and her spouse, to issue the Alhambra Decree expelling Jews from their realm.

H

This woman used a papal dispensation supposedly signed by Pius II for her wedding in 1469 because her betrothed was her second cousin.

H

The actions of this woman caused the "moor's last sigh" when Boabdil was forced to abdicate.

H

This woman defeated the Emirate of Granada, ending the Reconquista period of her country.

H

This queen relied on a secret police known as the "hermandades" (pr.

H

A war fought over the succession of this person ended with the Battle of Toro, and this person was able to come to power after Alfonso, the Prince of Asturias, died of the plague.

H

The Dominican Friar Tomás de Torquemada was for many years the personal advisor to this ruler, who authorized the anti-Semitic Alhambra Decree at his behest.

H

The first woman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp, she revived the medieval hermandades police forces in order to control rebellious Castilian nobles.

Watch out: Confused with Joanna la Beltraneja, her rival in the Castilian succession crisis
#1740 · General · Level 3

John Calvin

John Calvin
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French Protestant reformer · 1509–1564 · Geneva, Switzerland

John Calvin was a French theologian who led the Reformation in Geneva and founded the Reformed Protestant tradition.

The kit

  • Rise — John Calvin was recruited to Geneva by William Farel, who told him "May God curse your studies" during the attempt.
  • Achievements — John Calvin authored Institutes of the Christian Religion, outlining his doctrine of predestination that God alone chooses who is saved.
  • Conflicts — John Calvin helped build the heresy case against Michael Servetus, who was arrested during a sermon and burned at the stake.
  • Legacy — John Calvin's followers included the Huguenots of France and Hungarian Protestants; Arminians broke with his doctrine at the Synod of Dort.

Runs with

Switzerland
fled to Switzerland as refuge open card →
Geneva
led Reformed church and theocratic government there open card →
church
founded Reformed church branch open card →
Institutes of the Christian Religion
wrote this theological work on predestination open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

Before assuming his most notable position, this man was told "May God curse your studies" during a recruitment attempt by future ally William Farel.

H

Wolfgang Capito and Martin Bucer invited this man to minister to French refugees in Strasbourg.

M

French minister and believer in predestination who wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion before moving to Switzerland.

M

The Huguenots of France were Protestants who followed the doctrine of this reformer who served as de facto head of the Council of Geneva.

E

He believed that God alone chooses who is saved, according to his idea of predestination. name this French Protestant and author of The Institutes of Christian Religion who led the Reformation in Geneva.

E

This author of Institutes of the Christian Religion and supporter of predestination fled to Switzerland and eventually led the church of Geneva.

10 more clues from the record
H

Protestants in Hungary were predominantly followers of this French theologian, who founded the Reformed movement and outlined his views on predestination in Institutes of the Christian Religion.

H

Geneva’s theocratic government during this period was headed by this French theologian. This author of Institutes of the Christian Religion founded a namesake branch of the Reformed church.

H

This man used the pseudonym Charles D’Espeville in his correspondence with his opponent Michael Servetus. :Name this Reformation theologian and author of Institutes of the Christian Religion.

H

The Consensus Tigurinus resolved a dispute between this man and Huldrych Zwingli [z’ving-lee] over the nature of the Eucharist.

H

This theologian helped build the case of heresy against Michael Cervetus, who was then burned at the stake.

H

While attending a sermon by this leader, reformer Michael Servetus was arrested and later burned at the stake.

H

This man shocked both Catholic and Protestant countries when he ordered the burning of Michael Servetus.

H

French theologian who continued the Reformation and has a branch of Protestantism named after him.

H

At the Synod of Dort, the Arminians broke with this man’s followers.

H

This man’s concept of “election” was rejected by Karl Barth.

Watch out: Michael Servetus (opponent burned for heresy, not a follower)
#1773 · General · Level 3

Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli
bdi Santi di Tito /span /a · Public domain

Florentine diplomat and political theorist · early 16th century · Florence

Niccolò Machiavelli was an early 16th-century Florentine diplomat who argued rulers should be feared rather than loved.

The kit

  • Rise — Niccolò Machiavelli served as a diplomat and organized a citizen militia that fled before the Spanish sack of Prato in 1512.
  • Achievements — Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince, dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici, which stresses the concept of virtú and advises emulating both lion and fox.
  • Political philosophy — Niccolò Machiavelli argued rulers should begin ruling harshly so everything seems kinder in comparison and compared Fortune to a lady who must be beaten.
  • Legacy — Niccolò Machiavelli inspired Leo Strauss's claim that modern philosophy began with him, though Innocent Gentillet blamed him for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

Runs with

The Prince
wrote this work advising rulers to be feared rather than loved open card →
Livy
analyzed first ten books of his Ab Urbe Condita in Discourses open card →
Renaissance
early 16th-century Florentine thinker of this period open card →
Rome
used examples from its history like Scipio Africanus open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

After this man’s citizen militia fled, the Spanish sacked the city of Prato in 1512, ending the rule of Piero Soderini.

H

Leo Strauss argued that “Modern” philosophy began with this man, who used Hannibal and Scipio Africanus as examples of brutal rulers.

M

The first ten books of another historian’s Ab Urbe Condita were the subject of this man’s Discourses on Livy.

M

The author of Ab Urbe Condita, the Roman historian Livy, inspired a discourse by this author, who encourages the title figure of another work to emulate both the lion and the fox.

E

This man idolized Cesare Borgia in a work that claims it is better to be feared than loved. name this Florentine thinker, who wrote The Prince.

E

It is better for a ruler to be feared than loved according to this early 16th century Italian diplomat, the author of The Prince.

10 more clues from the record
H

This man used the example of Alexander the Great conquering the Persian Empire to suggest that holding a conquered Ottoman Empire would be easier than holding a conquered France.

H

In one of this man's works, he compares Fortune to a lady who must be beaten and struck down, and advises against the use of auxiliaries.

H

That work by this man stresses the idea of virtú and was dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici. Name this Florentine writer, who held that it is better to be feared than loved in The Prince.

H

In an attack on this man’s work, Innocent Gentillet blamed this man for causing the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.

H

Voltaire edited and attempted to suppress a work by Frederick the Great attacking this man, who drew some of his ideas from the Orti Oricellari, and Rousseau argued that this man satirized one-man rule in a work that often appears with his made-up biography of Castruccio Castracane.

H

This philosopher who analyzed Ab urbe condita in his Discourses on Livy, argued that it was best to begin ruling harshly so that everything seems kinder in comparison in his most famous work.

H

This man wrote that “because Fortune is a woman, one must thrash her to have one’s way with her,” and he discussed the first 10 books of the History of Rome in his Discourses on Livy.

H

One work by this author includes a discussion of the role of fortune in the rise of Rome while analyzing the first ten books of a Roman historian.

H

One work by this author is structured as a Socratic dialogue among his discussion group, the Orti Oricellari, and criticizes condottieri mercenaries.

H

In 1503, this man consulted Leonardo da Vinci on a scheme to divert the river Arno around the city of Pisa.

Watch out: Confused with Livy, the Roman historian whose Ab Urbe Condita Machiavelli analyzed
#1810 · General · Level 3

Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Aragon
bdi Lucas Horenbout /span /a · Public domain

Queen of England · 1509–1533 · England

Catherine of Aragon was Henry VIII's first wife, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, whose annulment sparked England's break with Rome.

The kit

  • Rise — Catherine of Aragon married Henry VIII in 1509 after the death of Arthur, Prince of Wales, her first husband.
  • Achievements — Catherine of Aragon is sometimes considered the first female ambassador in European history for representing her sister Joanna.
  • Conflicts — Catherine of Aragon's annulment was secured by Thomas Cranmer, who helped solve the "King's Great Matter" for Henry VIII.
  • Death & succession — Catherine of Aragon died at Kimbolton Castle in 1536, having called herself Queen until her death despite the 1533 divorce.

Runs with

Henry VIII
first wife, married 1509–1533 open card →
church
annulment prompted Henry's break with Rome open card →
Anne Boleyn
replaced Catherine as queen, her former lady-in-waiting open card →
Henry
first wife, married 1509–1533 open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

Henry’s first, fifth, and sixth wives all had this first name. Henry VIII broke with the Church when he annulled his marriage to the one “of Aragon.”

H

This woman is sometimes considered the first female ambassador in European history for representing her sister, Joanna, in a certain court.

M

This woman died in Kimbolton Castle some time after her husband divorced her for her lady-in-waiting, Anne Boleyn. name this queen consort of England and first wife of King Henry VIII.

M

First wife, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella.

E

That girl's father was a king this woman married after the death of his elder brother, her first husband, Arthur, Prince of Wales.

E

First wife of Henry VIII, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella.

10 more clues from the record
H

The servants of a woman with this first name, who included the trumpeter John Blanke, were among the first recorded Africans in modern Britain.

H

This woman stopped making shirts for her husband when her replacement, Anne Boleyn, ordered that deliveries of linen to her castle be stopped. :Name this Spanish first wife of Henry VIII.

H

Juan Luis Vives’s tract about the education of women is dedicated to and modeled after this woman.

H

Prophecies condemning the poor treatment of a person of this name got the nun Elizabeth Barton executed.

H

This woman authored a possibly fictive letter asking her nephew, Emperor Charles V, to protect her daughter.

H

Thomas Cromwell said if this woman were male, "she could have defied all the heroes of History." :Name this woman, the mother of Mary I. The annulment of her marriage to her second husband was secured thanks to the efforts of Thomas Cranmer.

H

This person discussed the plight of the Jewish community in a secret correspondence with Juan Luis Vives When this person died at Kimbolton Castle, the entirety of their country wore yellow clothing as a symbol of remembrance.

H

A slave and royal bedmaker to this person named Catalina had unique insight into whether this person’s first marriage to a man who died of “sweating sickness” was consummated or not.

H

Cranmer came to prominence as part of a group of humanist scholars who solved the “King’s Great Matter” and helped Henry VIII annul his marriage to this woman.

H

name these wives of Henry VIII.This woman was Queen of England from 1509 to 1533, when she and Henry were divorced. She would call herself Queen until her 1536 death, however.

Watch out: Henry VIII had three wives named Catherine (first, fifth, and sixth)
#1812 · General · Level 3

Emirate of Granada

Emirate of Granada
Amitchell125 /a (based on the map produced by Tyk /a and Red · CC BY-SA 4.0

Muslim state · 1230s–1492 · southern Spain

Emirate of Granada was the last independent Muslim state in Iberia, ruled by the Nasrid dynasty from the Alhambra.

The kit

  • Rise — Emirate of Granada was established by Muhammad I ibn al-Ahmar, who founded the Nasrid dynasty after Las Navas de Tolosa.
  • Rule — Emirate of Granada was ruled from the Alhambra palace, which contained the Court of the Lions and whose name means 'red.'
  • Conflicts — Emirate of Granada took an isolationist stance after its Marinid allies were defeated at Rio Salado in the 1340s.
  • Fall — Emirate of Granada fell in 1492 to Ferdinand and Isabella, ending the Reconquista when last ruler Boabdil went into exile.

Runs with

Reconquista
final Muslim polity conquered in 1492 open card →
Spain
located in Andalusia in southern Spain open card →
Muhammad
founder took name Muhammad I open card →
Iberian Peninsula
last independent Muslim state on peninsula open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

This city was the capital of a namesake Berber kingdom founded by Zawi ibn Ziri.

H

The Nasrid Dynasty ruled from this Spanish city, the site of the Alhambra.

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This city’s Alhambra fortress was captured during the Reconquista. name this city, the former capital of a Muslim emirate in southern Spain.

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The Reconquista ended when this final independent city fell to Catholic forces in 1492.

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This polity was ruled from the Alhambra and ended in 1492 after its conquest by Castile. name this polity and city of southern Spain.

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The Nasrid dynasty ruled an emirate from a palace in this city that contains the Court of the Lions.

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Castilian king Ferdinand’s Alhambra Decree, which expelled the Jews from Spain and allowed Muslims to stay, was signed after a battle which ended the Iberian Reconquista by conquering this last Muslim kingdom.

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The Reconquista ended with the 1492 capture of this Andalusian city whose last Nasrid ruler was Muhammad XII or Boabdil.

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Joseph ibn Naghrela was killed in this city in a 1066 pogrom supposedly prompted by Abu Ishaq’s anti-Semitic writing.

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Cardinal Cisneros’ attempt to brutally convert the population of this city led to a revolt that spread to its nearby Alpujarras Mountain region.

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When this city’s king Boabdil was forced into exile, he allegedly looked back wistfully at this city at a mountain pass now known as the “Moor’s sigh.” The Nasrids established a kingdom in this city shortly after the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa.

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A coup in this city featured the participation of Maryam, the wife of Yusuf I. Another ruler based in this city, Ibn al-Ahmar, took the name Muhammad I and founded the Nasrid dynasty before building this city’s Alhambra palace.

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Shortly after this city was defeated at Tebas, its king Yusuf I requested aid from the Marinids to fight the Battle of Tarifa.

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This polity’s last ruler, Boabdil, went into an almost five decade exile in Fes.

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This polity’s rulers were named after Muhammad I’s ancestor, Nasr the Red, and “red” is the translation for this polity’s best known work of architecture.

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This polity took a more isolationist stance after the battle of Rio Salado, at which the Marinids were defeated.

Watch out: Zawi ibn Ziri founded an earlier Berber kingdom in Granada, not the Nasrid emirate
#1881 · General · Level 3

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn
English school · Public domain

English queen consort · 1533–1536 · England

Anne Boleyn was Henry VIII's second wife whose marriage prompted England's break from the Catholic Church and who mothered Elizabeth I.

The kit

  • Rise — Anne Boleyn served as maid of honor to Catherine of Aragon before marrying Catherine's former husband Henry VIII in 1533.
  • Achievements — Anne Boleyn was the first woman crowned with St. Edward's Crown, a regalia usually reserved for males, and bore Elizabeth I.
  • Conflicts — Anne Boleyn's influence caused the downfall of Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey, who had broken her earlier betrothal to Henry Percy.
  • Death & succession — Anne Boleyn was beheaded in 1536 after Thomas Cromwell implicated her in a scheme to kill the king with supposed lovers.

Runs with

Henry VIII
her husband who broke from Rome to marry her and later executed her open card →
church
Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church to marry her open card →
Elizabeth I
her daughter who became queen open card →
Henry
her husband King Henry VIII open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

H

Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church to marry this woman, the second of his six wives, who became the mother of Elizabeth I.

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This woman’s influence is credited with causing the downfall of Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey.

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This woman served as queen of England for less than three years in the 1530s, previously having served as maid of honor to Catherine of Aragon whose former husband this woman married in 1533.

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Affection for this woman may have caused the "King's Great Matter", which led to the annulment of a marriage to Catherine of Aragon. name this second wife of Henry VIII .

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Thomas Cromwell implicated this woman in a scheme to kill the king, along with several of her supposed lovers. name this woman, the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, who was beheaded in 1536 by her husband, King Henry VIII.

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This person’s demise was depicted in a 2008 film after Jane Parker claims that this woman was having an incestuous affair with her brother, George. who was the second wife of King Henry VIII [[the Eighth]], ultimately beheaded on charges of adultery and treason?

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She was allegedly betrothed to Henry Percy before that arrangement was broken by Cardinal Wolsey.

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The title of "Marquess of Pembroke" was created for this woman.

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Henry’s pursuit of this mother of Queen Elizabeth I, who was queen from 1533 to 1536, was the catalyst for his divorce from Catherine.

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The subject of a 2021 film imagines themselves dressed as this person as they walk down a hallway repeatedly yelling, “Tell them I’m not well!” In that film, Spencer, Princess Diana envisions the ghost of this person in place of Queen Elizabeth II during a Christmas dinner at Sandringham.

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A song about this woman became popular on TikTok due to the phrase, “XO Baby.” That song, “Don’t Lose Your Head,” tells the story of this woman, a character in the 2019 pop musical Six.

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This was the first woman to be crowned with St. Edward's Crown, which was usually reserved for males. The "Spanish Chronicle" describes how Thomas Cromwell plotted to remove this figure from power.

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This woman aided Richard Harman, who was arrested for smuggling illegal Tyndale Bibles.

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This woman became Henry's second wife after he secured his divorce from Catherine.

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second woman he married this person who bore him Elizabeth I.

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The British Library holds this woman’s copy of Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples’s translation of the Bible, supporting claims of French religious influence made in her chaplain William Latymer’s biography.

Watch out: Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife whom Anne replaced as queen consort
#1964 · General · Level 3

Witches

Witches
bdi John William Waterhouse /span /a · Public domain

Accused sorcerers and spellcasters · medieval to early modern period · Europe

Witches were people accused of communing with Satan and practicing harmful magic, targeted in trials and executions across early modern Europe.

The kit

  • Persecution methods — Witches were tested by ducking in water (believed unable to sink) and hunted by figures like Matthew Hopkins, the "hunter general."
  • Malleus Maleficarum — Witches were the subject of Malleus Maleficarum ("Hammer of Witches"), written by Heinrich Kramer and Jakob Sprenger as a handbook for identifying them.
  • Regional campaigns — Witches were targeted in Basque akelarres by Pierre de Lancre at Labourd and Logroño, and tortured at the North Berwick trial in Scotland.
  • Defense — Witches were defended by Johann Weyer, who argued they were mentally ill and harmless rather than dangerous sorcerers.

Runs with

Malleus Maleficarum
Handbook written by Kramer and Sprenger for identifying and prosecuting witches open card →
Water
Used in ducking-stool tests, as witches were believed unable to sink open card →
Scotland
Site of North Berwick trial where accused witches were tortured open card →
women

The ladder · 6 clues

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Heinrich Kramer procured the papal bull Summis Desiderantis Affectibus after a failed trial of these people in Innsbruck, and also produced a book whose title means “the Hammer of [these people]”, the Malleus Maleficarum.

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Johann Weyer argued that these people were insane and harmless.

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Women accused of being what spellcasters in league with Satan?

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These people were the subject of Heinrich Kramer’s book Malleus Maleficarum.

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Jacob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer authored a book on finding these peoples called the Malleus Maleficarum.

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The ducking stool was sometimes used on these people because they were believed to not sink in water.

10 more clues from the record
H

Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer wrote a work titled for the “Hammer of” these people that suggested the use of cold water to find them.

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After Gillis Duncan was accused of being one of these people, they were tortured at the Old Tolbooth during the North Berwick trial in Scotland.

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These people were sought by the “hunter general” Matthew Hopkins and by Catholics who used the handbook Malleus Maleficarum.

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Johann Weyer wrote that these people had mental illnesses but were harmless.

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These people were targeted in Logrono after many of them met at places called akelarres.

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The medieval encyclopedist Vincent of Beauvais recorded an incident in which he chased a woman around his quarters with a stick to dispel her of the belief that she was one of these people. :Medieval European “trials” often resulted in the execution of women on suspicion of being what sorcerers?

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A moral panic about these people was inspired by Heinrich Kramer’s 15th-century work Malleus Maleficarum. :Name these people who, during the early modern period, were often burned at the stake due to the popular belief that they communed with demons.

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Pierre de Lancre oversaw campaigns against these people at Labourd and Logroño that executed numerous Basque followers of Mari. :Identify this kind of individual, also the subject of a handbook by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger.

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Ergotism caused by consuming poisoned rye bread is a popular history explanation for both dancing mania and the behavior of these people, whose dealings with Lucifer were purported by the treatise Malleus Maleficarum.

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Interestingly, Coloman the Book-Lover passed a law banning the trials of these people. Hunts for these people were popular in early modern Europe, and they were often tossed into water to see if they could float.

Watch out: Confusing the Malleus Maleficarum's authors Heinrich Kramer and Jakob Sprenger with each other
#1975 · Historic Cities · Level 3

Antwerp

Antwerp
LBM1948 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Belgian port city · prominence 1500s · Scheldt River, Flanders

Antwerp is Belgium's second-largest city, a major diamond-trading center and historic port that dominated European commerce in the 1500s.

The kit

  • Rise — Antwerp became Europe's trade hub in the 1500s after serving as the Portuguese spice and sugar trade center with Germany.
  • Conflicts — Antwerp suffered the Spanish Fury sack of 1576 by mutinous tercios and fell to Alessandro Farnese's siege a decade later.
  • Legacy — Antwerp houses the world's busiest diamond district and features the Bourse, the world's first purpose-built commodity exchange.

Runs with

Belgium
second-largest city in Belgium open card →
Battle of the Bulge
German objective to capture during opening offensive open card →
ships
defended by hellburner fireships against pontoon bridges open card →
Eighty Years' War
capital of Dutch Revolt, blockaded throughout conflict open card →

The ladder · 6 clues

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Hellburner ships, which have been described as early "weapons of mass destruction," were used to stop an invasion of this city, taking place ten years after the most violent "Spanish Fury." The fall of this city led to hundreds of Protestant merchants fleeing to the United Provinces across the border.

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This second largest Belgian city with a notable zoo and a busy port sits on the Scheldt River.

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The Battle of the Bulge began as a German effort to capture this north Belgian city with a prominent diamond industry that was the Low Country capital of the Dutch Revolt in the 17th century.

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Abraham Ortelius created the world’s first Atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, in this city, whose diamond district is the world’s busiest.

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The trade hub of Bruges [] was eclipsed in importance by this Flemish city.

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A store that sells bags is punningly named after the 1576 sack of this city by the Spanish during the Eighty Years’ War. name this center of Belgium’s diamond industry.

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Christophe Plantin’s polyglot bible was published in this city, where heretic William Tyndale got temporary sanctuary.

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Jewish people emigrating from this city to Cuba established 24 plants in the diamond-polishing industry during the Second World War.

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This city's Bourse served as the world's first purpose- built commodity exchange.

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This city in modern-day Belgium had been the center of European trade in the 1500s, but was blockaded for most of the Dutch Revolt, leading to the rise of Amsterdam. This city was also sacked in the "Spanish Fury."

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During the Dutch Revolt, this Belgian city was sacked by mutinous soldiers in the Spanish Fury. Despite the use of fire ships against Alessandro Farnese's pontoon bridges, this city later fell to Spanish besiegers.

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According to Herman van der Wee’s The Growth of [this city’s] Market and the European Economy, this city’s rise to prominence began after it became the hub of the Portuguese spice and sugar trade with Germany.

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The Nonsuch Treaty was prompted by a 1576 siege of this repeatedly besieged Belgian city that ended in a sack by mutinous tercios in the best-known “Spanish Fury”. Today this city is known for its diamond markets.

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A year after the 1575 bankruptcy, tercios under Sancho d’Avila angry about low salaries decided to sack this city. This city was conquered a decade later by Alexander Farnese.

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In 2018, a notoriously elusive designer who studied in this city presented a “micro-collection” of five new designs called the M.Y. Project, her first collection since 2005.

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This city's name means "throwing" and "hand," supposedly originating from a Roman soldier cutting off the hand of a giant who was demanding a toll on the river that runs through it.

Watch out: Bruges was the earlier Flemish trade hub that Antwerp eclipsed
#1991 · Medieval European Rulers · Level 3

Ferdinand and Isabella

Ferdinand and Isabella
bdi span title='unknown creator of a work (do not use as val · Public domain

Catholic Monarchs of Spain · 1469–1516 · Spain

Ferdinand and Isabella were the Catholic Monarchs who united Castile and Aragon through marriage and completed the Reconquista in 1492.

The kit

  • Rise — Ferdinand and Isabella united the crowns of Castile and Aragon through their 1469 marriage.
  • Achievements — Ferdinand and Isabella completed the Reconquista by conquering Granada in 1492 and sponsored Christopher Columbus's voyage.
  • Conflicts — Ferdinand and Isabella issued the Alhambra Decree in 1492, expelling Jews who refused to convert to Christianity.
  • Legacy — Ferdinand and Isabella were granted the title "Catholic Monarchs" by Pope Alexander VI for their religious policies.

Runs with

Christopher Columbus
sponsored his 1492 expedition to the New World open card →
Spain
unified Spain by joining Castile and Aragon open card →
Reconquista
completed it with Granada's conquest in 1492 open card →
Spanish Inquisition

The ladder · 6 clues

H

The conquest of Granada was completed during the reigns of these two monarchs, who expelled their country’s Jews with the Alhambra Decree. name these two Catholic Monarchs of Spain who authorized Christopher Columbus to sail to the New World.

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When these two monarchs took power, they created the Holy Brotherhood to rein in the nobility.

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Jews were eventually forced to convert to Christianity or leave Spain after the Alhambra Decree was issued by these two monarchs, who unified Castile and Aragon through their marriage.

M

Catholic Monarchs, of Castille and Aragon, who persecuted Muslims.

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These two monarchs expelled Jews from their country by signing the Alhambra decree in the same year they sponsored the voyage of Christopher Columbus.

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La Reconquista ended in 1492 with the conquest of Granada by these two monarchs who had earlier agreed to fund Christopher Columbus’s voyages.

10 more clues from the record
H

Peter was overthrown by the Trastamara Dynasty, which these two monarchs were members of. These two Catholic Monarchs commissioned Christopher Columbus and united the Crowns of Castile and Aragon.

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These figures were jointly granted a title by Pope Alexander VI, who also granted them land with the bull Inter caetera.

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One of these figures was crowned after the Treaty of Alcáçovas with the support of the other.

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These monarchs supposedly used the motto “tanto monta, monta tanto,” which roughly translates to “they are equal.” :Name this husband and wife, a pair of Spanish monarchs whose wedding joined the kingdoms of Castile and Aragón. They sponsored Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the New World.

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This duo authorized Christopher Columbus's expedition to the New World. :Name this pair of Catholic monarchs who jointly ruled Spain. One of them was from Castille, while another was from Aragon.

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This couple expelled the groups in their kingdom that refused to convert to Catholicism. :Name this married pair of rulers who oversaw the completion of the recapturing of the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim control and the beginning of the Inquisition.

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answer some questions surrounding Catholics in history:Husband and wife, these two Catholic rulers during the Reconquista financed Christopher Columbus on his voyages to the Americas.

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Rodrigo Borgia negotiated with John II, Prince John, and these two rulers before the signing of the Treaty of Tordesillas, which split the New World between two countries.

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Two answers required. The Reconquista finally ended with the conquest of Granada during the reign of these two “Catholic Monarchs,” whose marriage united the Spanish crown.

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These two rulers followed the motto "Tanto monta, monta tanto". :Name these two rulers who united the crowns of Castile and Aragon and sponsored Christopher Columbus's 1492 expedition.

Watch out: Students may confuse their individual kingdoms (Ferdinand was from Aragon, Isabella from Castile) or reverse which monarch ruled which realm.