95 POINTS Perhaps Peter’s greatest achievement was the construction of a port on the Baltic Sea called blank. His greatest failing was to leave unreformed the institution of blank.

Why did louis xvi call a meeting of the estates-general in 1789? how long had it been since such a meeting had been called?

Where did the term “iron curtain” originate? the warsaw pact used the term iron curtain as a code word for communism. in a 1946 speech, british prime minister winston churchill said an iron curtain had fallen across the continent of europe. while visiting western europe in 1946, u.s. president harry truman commented that the mountains there looked like iron curtains. russian general secretary joseph stalin instructed citizens of eastern europe to hang iron curtains over their windows to protect themselves from stray bullets.

What factors encouraged the use of the vernacular in literature in renaissance society?