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Which of the following European monarchs were autocratic rulers similar to Peter the Great?

Louis XIV of France

A historian would likely be most interested in the table above as a primary source if they were researching which of the following?

The increasing role of British slave traders in facilitating the Atlantic slave trade during the period 1600-1800

What advice did Louis XIV give to his son?

A king is the master; all are reliant upon his graces

Given the tone of the passage, what governmental system does Count Von Seckendorf support?

Absolute monarchy

To which monarch was The Grand Remonstrance directed?

Charles I

Which of the following reasons for the eventual decline of the Habsburg Empire could be supported by the map above?

Communication problems within the Empire.

Which of the following was NOT one of the measures that the French monarchy used over the next few years to address the issue Mazarin raises?

Disbanding the parlements who disagreed with royal edicts

In what country does this image take place?

England

Which group of people was the most likely audience for Equiano's writing?

European merchants concerned with making profits

Which of the following religious policies aligns most closely with the passage above?

Ferdinand and Isabella's decision to expel the Jew in 1492

The presence of this in an 18th-century European home can best be explained by which of the following?

Increased demand for consumer goods

Which of the following conclusions about the military revolution in the seventeenth century is MOST supported by the drawing?

Militaries continued to employ weapons and tactics found in antiquity

The Edict of 1626 was most likely issued by the King of France in order to:

Mitigate the nobles' threat to his power

Which contemporary of Louis XIV, because of similar threats to his accession to the throne as a boy, became an absolute ruler and built his nation into a major military power that threatened Europe's balance of power?

Peter I

Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the passages?

Peter the Great instituted the type of autocratic rule that Hobbes believed was essential to harmonious human societies, down to the tsar setting fashion standards for his subjects.

What does Quesnay's view of the role and duties of the government reveal about the physiocrat's enlightened ideas about the economy?

Physiocrats viewed the economy in scientific terms, as something to be studied and understood by educated professionals, and believed that monarchs must learn to view the government in the same way

The spread of which of the following is MOST similar to the diffusion of what is depicted in the photograph?

Renaissance art

What did Rousseau mean regarding liberum veto and its ability to create oppression from freedom?

Rousseau warned the Poles that liberum allowed nobles to disrupt the workings of government for their own selfish gain

What were Louis XIV's motives regarding children in Article B?

Since his goal was one faith in France, baptizing and then converting the next generation would be a step in guaranteeing his goal.

Which of the following future Russian leaders would be most opposed to Peter's rule, as outlined in these three passages?

Stalin

To what extent was Louis's son, The Grand Dauphin, successful in following his father's advice?

The Dauphin never became king because Louis XIV ruled for so long

The quote, "He has hereby caused and procured many thousands of the free people of this nation to be slain," refers to:

The English Civil War

Which of the following events is MOST reflected in the map above?

The Expansion of the 30 years War.

What event led to King Louis XIV's "disinclination" for Paris and the decision to eventually build a palace at Versailles about 10 miles away?

The Fronde

King William of England was referring to disagreements which were about to become what event in Europe at the turn of the 17th into the 18th century?

The War of Spanish Succession

This passage is consistent with which trend in Europe at the time?

The development of absolute monarchy

Equiano's argument is a response to which broad economic trend of the eighteenth century?

The development of large-scale plantation agriculture in the Caribbean and South America

This poem can best be understood as a reaction to which of the following trends in Europe?

The exploitation of colonial peoples and African slaves in the Atlantic system

As a member of the English Parliament during the reign of Charles I, John Pym's accusations in the excerpt was most likely a response to which of the following developments?

The fear of Protestant England becoming Catholic once again under Charles I

According to Frederick II, how did Prussia MOST benefit from the partition of Poland?

The fracturing of Poland allowed Prussia to seize control of territory, lines of communication and river systems which further connected the already existing territories of the kingdom.

How does the image best represent the consequences of the Agricultural Revolution?

The gentry cleared the peasants off their land in order to specialize their fields using new agricultural techniques

Of the following thinkers, whose theories most closely align with the passage?

Thomas Hobbes

The ideas expressed in the passage BEST illustrate which of the following tenets of mercantilist thought?

A state's control of its economy would enhance its power and wealth

Which of the following BEST describes the content of this excerpt?

Although the war has been won, rebellious nobles continue to cause problems

A historian examining 17th century Holland would best utilize the source above to draw the conclusion that?

Amsterdam and other Dutch cities become important urban financial centers in the 16th and 17th century

In response to the sentiments expressed in this excerpt, which of the following created a political system designed to uphold the status quo?

Austrian Klemens von Metternich at the Congress of Vienna, 1814

Which of the following leaders attempted to benefit economically by welcoming those fleeing French persecution?

Frederick of Great Elector

The actions described by Jean Rousset de Missy most directly challenged...

the Russian nobility

The Triennial Act is a reflection of the:

power struggle between the monarchy and the aristocracy

Mercantilist countries that endorsed Mun's view were more likely to:

promote the acquisition of colonies

The rise in trade, particularly within the mercantile empires of the period, contributed to the emergence of the putting-out system by:

providing cheap raw materials

What social class is best represented by the people in the picture?

Gentry

How did the agricultural revolution contribute to the development of the putting-out system?

Improved farm production reduced labor demand, freeing up potential workers

In what ways did the social contract in Hobbes Leviathan differ from John Locke's vision of the social contract in his 1689 Second Treatise on Government?

Hobbes justified a strong monarch while Locke defended a right to revolt against an unjust king.

Which of the following actions by Peter the Great of Russia is a reflection of the same goal as the decision described in the passage above?

Forcing the boyars to shave their beards

Which of the following theorists would be the most supportive of the Triennial Acts?

John Locke

Thomas Hobbes wrote during the time of King Charles I of England and the English Civil War. For Hobbes, the most. significant danger for a society was...

The breakdown of law and order that would occur without a strong central authority.

The main argument in this piece is that:

consuming sugar was simply not worth the human price it incurred

In the context of Darnton's analysis of the nature and effects of libels in 17th century France, which of the following describes "the Fronde"?

A concerted and at times perilous and violent movement in which high ranking nobles worked to limit royal authority to even, at one point, threaten the lives of Cardinal Mazarin and the king himself

Given the sources provided about 17th-century French libels, which of the following is the best definition of a libel?

A written work which defames or damages the honor or reputation of certain individuals or groups within a given society

Which of the following statements BEST exemplifies how the military revolution affected the balance of power in Europe in the second half of the seventeenth century?

Countries developed a strong, central governments had a distinct advantage

The most direct threat posed by France to William and his heirs was which of the following?

France supported the claims of James II and his heirs, the Stuart "Pretenders," who were Catholic

Economists today might argue that Quesnay's views are irrelevant for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

It is difficult to understand the economy according to social scientific terms due to the amount of greed and corruption that existed within financial systems of the 18th century

Which of the following actions was a contributing factor to the Parliament's passing of the Triennial Act in 1640?

King Charles I's decision to rule without Parliament

Quesnay's philosophy regarding the "Freedom to Cultivate" BEST epitomizes what other modern economic theory?

Laissez-faire economics

Which of the following statements would NOT be supported by the information found in this source?

Most classes in Dutch society were not able to participate in the wealth created by Dutch commerce

What did Rousseau seem to understand about political change that Poland did not when he warned that they were "surrounded by powerful and ambitious neighbors"?

Polish nobles had to realize that too much individual power in the Diet kept the nation weak and divided in the face of the strong absolute monarchies surrounding them

Which of the following British historical documents gave the Court the strongest precedent for accusing King Charles of treason against his own people?

The Magna Carta

When Mun emphasizes the value of foreign trade as a "terror of our Enemies," to which country is he probably reffering?

The Netherlands

Which of the following events changed the operation of the British East India Company described by Burke in this excerpt?

The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857

Which event brought the eventual end of the British East India Company's political, economic, and social control over India?

The Sepoy Rebellion

Which of the following trends most directly resulted in the growth of the African slave trade in the British Atlantic during the 16th and 17th centuries?

The establishment of plantation agriculture in the British West Indies coupled with declining Native American populations

What is Quesnay's enlightened view of the role the government should have in the agricultural economy?

The governments must protect private property and allow all farmers to freely cultivate their land in the way that is most profitable to them as individuals

Mun's economic argument was MOST similar to which of the following processes at work in the 17th century>

The growth of increasingly centralized and powerful monarchies

Which other policy of Louis XIV's increased the strength of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes?

The implementation of Gallicanism

The interactions described in the statement above are best understood in the context of the following?

The middle passage

According to this excerpt, what power did the Queen grant the company?

The power to grant licenses to others as they saw fit in order to enhance the profitability of overseas trade

Which of the following characteristics of the putting-out system MOST resembled traditional methods of production?

The production process employed the whole family

Which of the following actions by Louis XIV most closely reflects the description in the passage?

The revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

Which of the following BEST explains the motivation behind Equiano's publication of the above narrative?

The rise of enlightenment ideas that caused people, such as Equiano, to fight for "natural rights" such as liberty and freedom.

Which of the following conclusions about the slave trade is most directly supported by the above passage?

The slave trade had devastating effects on African populations on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Although William refers to the French threat to the "liberty of Europe," his more practical strategic concerns were most likely which of the following?

The threat to English colonies and trade as well as the existential threat to the Netherlands

Which of the following events in German history is MOST reflective of the State's policies under Frederick William I as expressed in the passage above?

The unification of Germany under Otto von Bismarck

Which of the following conclusions be drawn by a close reading of this excerpt?

The vast wealth of India corrupted British officials and East India Company representatives who lived and did business there

The excerpt above is most closely aligned with the theories of:

Thomas Hobbes

The attitude towards race expressed in this poem would most differ from the attitude of the late 19th century in which of the following ways?

White Europeans in the 19th century would have been less likely to see those of African descent as brothers, and more likely to see them as a different species

Mazarin's concerns help explain which of the following historical trends?

Why many French nobles converted to Protestantism in the 16th century

Equiano's memoir was a critique of the transatlantic slave trade. What was one consequence of the Atlantic trade networks for the lower classes of Great Britain?

Workers in Great Britain found new employment opportunities processing raw materials from the colonies

Hobbes' book is one of the earliest, clearest statements on the concept of government as social contract. In his work, he was attempting to establish a theory of legitimate central government based on...

a secular and rational reason for the state

Louis XIV's statement that "liberty is granted to the said person of the RPR was meant to:

reinforce his desire to do what was best for the common good

Based on the illustration, the putting-out system was MOST different from the later Industrial Revolution that began in the late eighteenth century in that:

the Industrial Revolution shifted production away from the home and into factories

One of the MAJOR causes for the concerns expressed in this excerpt was:

the establishment in the 18th century of an unregulated, aggressive form of capitalism

The military revolution of the seventeenth century brought dramatic military and political changes that are MOST SIMILAR to those experienced during:

the period from 1871 to 1914

All of the following were changes in the structure and management of armies that resulted from the military revolution of the seventeenth century EXCEPT:

the use of cavalry in battle declined

According to Darton, the historical importance of libel tracts like Galant France was that such works:

undermined the carefully orchestrated projection to the public of the supposedly otherworldly nature of the French court and especially the king hismelf

All three of the above passages reflect the origins of which of the following aspects of Peter the Great's reign?

westernization

Peter the Great's regulations and policing of Russian facial hair and fashion were elements of his objective to:

westernize and thus from his vantage point modernize Russia