With the Habsburgs, Spain was one of the greatest political and military powers in Europe and the world for much of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Habsburg years also ushered in the Spanish Golden Age of arts and literature.
Q. What empire did the Habsburg dynasty rule?
The Habsburg Monarchy was formally unified from 1804 to 1867 as the Austrian Empire and from 1867 to 1918 as the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It collapsed following defeat in the First World War. In historiography, the Habsburg Monarchy (of the Austrian branch) is often called “Austria” by metonymy.
Table of Contents
- Q. What empire did the Habsburg dynasty rule?
- Q. What did the Habsburg Empire do?
- Q. What was the Habsburg Empire quizlet?
- Q. Which accurately defines irredentism?
- Q. What statement best describes the Thirty Years War?
- Q. Why did Sweden enter the 30 Years War?
- Q. Why did France join the Protestant side?
- Q. Which country emerged as a clear winner of the 30 years war?
- Q. Why did the Catholic Church want to stop the spread of Protestant ideas?
- Q. What did Luther not like about the Catholic Church?
- Q. Why did Martin Luther break away from Catholicism?
- Q. Why Apocrypha was removed from the Bible?
- Q. When was the book of wisdom removed from the Bible?
Q. What did the Habsburg Empire do?
Rising from obscure origins, the Habsburgs became the dominant political family of Europe during the Renaissance. Through a series of advantageous marriages, the family managed to overcome territorial and language boundaries and gained control of much of Europe and of vast tracts of land in the Americas.
Q. What was the Habsburg Empire quizlet?
The first Habsburg elected as Holy Roman Emperor in 1273, elected because he was viewed as too weak to control all of the dukes/princes. Was a very loose confederation of small, largely German princely states in the medieval period and for a few centuries after.
Q. Which accurately defines irredentism?
ir·re·den·tist. (ĭr′ĭ-dĕn′tĭst) One who advocates the recovery of territory culturally or historically related to one’s nation but now subject to a foreign government. [Italian irredentista, from (Italia) irredenta, unredeemed (Italy), Italian-speaking areas subject to other countries; see irredenta.]
Q. What statement best describes the Thirty Years War?
Ch. 16. HistorySecQz4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mercenary? | A hired soldier. |
| What statement accurately describes the Thirty Years’ War? | It began locally but became a general European war. |
| What country gained territory in the Peace of Westphalia? | France. |
| By the 1700;s, which empire included Germans, Slavs, Magyars, and Italians? | The Hapsburg. |
Q. Why did Sweden enter the 30 Years War?
After several attempts by the Holy Roman Empire to prevent the spread of Protestantism in Europe, King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden ordered a full-scale invasion of the Catholic states.
Q. Why did France join the Protestant side?
No longer able to tolerate the encirclement of two major Habsburg powers on its borders, Catholic France entered the Thirty Years’ War on the side of the Protestants to counter the Habsburgs and bring the war to an end.
Q. Which country emerged as a clear winner of the 30 years war?
France
Q. Why did the Catholic Church want to stop the spread of Protestant ideas?
Explanation: The first effort to stop the spread of protestantism was to declare the effort to reform the Catholic Church a heresy. People who supported the protests of the sale of indulgences and other practice perceived by the protesters as unbiblical were excommunicated.
Q. What did Luther not like about the Catholic Church?
Luther had a problem with the fact the Catholic Church of his day was essentially selling indulgences — indeed, according to Professor MacCulloch, they helped pay for the rebuilding of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Later, Luther appears to have dropped his belief in Purgatory altogether.
Q. Why did Martin Luther break away from Catholicism?
It was the year 1517 when the German monk Martin Luther pinned his 95 Theses to the door of his Catholic church, denouncing the Catholic sale of indulgences — pardons for sins — and questioning papal authority. That led to his excommunication and the start of the Protestant Reformation.
Q. Why Apocrypha was removed from the Bible?
The early Protestant Reformers, in agreement with Judaism, determined that the Apocrypha did not belong in the Bible, and therefore removed the Apocrypha from Protestant Bibles. It is in this category that we find the books of the Maccabees.
Q. When was the book of wisdom removed from the Bible?
Enhance your purchase. These three books are from the 16 apocrypha books of the Bible, they were removed from the Bible by the Protestant Church in the 1800’s.
