AP Euro Midterm

All of the following contributed to the Scientific Revolution EXCEPT

Encouragement by the church

Between 1618 and 1648, the Thirty Years' War involved

Virtually every major European land

Which of the following is the best explanation of the popular nickname for Louis XIV as alluded to in the stamp above?

"The Sun King" because all of Europe revolved around Louis XIV

Absolutism and Constitutional Monarchy

.

The author of the excerpt would most likely agree with which of the following forms of government?

Absolutism

Why was the establishment of plantations in the New World not impacted by the same trend shown in the graph?

African slaves shared immunities to European diseases

The policy of countries preferring to exploit colonies for precious metals like silvered gold was called

Bullionism

Which of the following was a consequence of the Columbian exchange referenced by Diamond?

European expansion of the African slave trade

Which artistic movement is van Eyck responsible for?

Flemish

Which was a result of the Thirty Years War?

Germany was economically devastated and its population decimated

The events surrounding the letter eventually resulted in the

Glorious Revolution

Louis XIV ruled by using Intendants, hereditary office holders, and

Maintaining a large standing army

All of the following themes are represented in the complete work referenced above EXCEPT

Majority opinion matters

Which group would most likely object to this papal bull?

Monarchs trying to consolidate power in their kingdoms

Which of the following is one of the short-term effects of Pre-Renaissance and....

The emergence of the classical liberalism movement

Which of the following contributed most to the spread of Renaissance ideas throughout Europe?

The invention of the printing press

The event displayed in the painting above depicts

The murder of the Huguenots by the Catholics

The intellectual movement of the Renaissance emphasized

The rediscovery of classical science and scholarship

The cartoon above most likely relates to what?

The tax burden on the Third Estate

Reformation/Exploration

.

Ideas such as those referenced in the excerpt resulted in

A new concept of the state as a secular entity

Michelangelo's work reflects which of the following developments in art made during the Italian Renaissance?

Art reflected a new emphasis on naturalism and symmetry

The image provides evidence to support the argument that Peter the Great

Attempted to transform Russian political, cultural, and economic institutions to be more in step with those of Western Europe

The excerpt is most illustrative of the ideas associated with

Civic Humanism

Based on the reading, what was Columbus' primary motivation for exploration?

Commercial motives

_______________ was a period when Cromwell ruled with the Rump Parliament.

Common Wealth

In keeping with his absolute rule, Louis XIV cemented his religious policy of "One King, One Law, One Faith" with the

Edict of Fontainebleau, which revoked the Edict of Nantes

The phase of European discovery and exploration that occurred during the 15th and 16th centuries was prompted mainly by the quest for

Gold and spices

This type of cathedral architecture would be characterized as which of the following?

Gothic

The greatest flaw in Columbus' plan to reach Asia by sailing west was that

He drastically underestimated the circumference of the earth.

Why does this piece by Bruegel seem crowded and chaotic?

He is attempting to portray multiple scenes over time rather than capturing one movement

The reading BEST demonstrates the view of

Individuality of everyone

Which of the following statements best illustrates the role of women during this time?

Involvement in political activities was restricted to a small amount of women in the noble...

This speech is considered a classic example of Renaissance humanism for which of the following reasons?

It declares the ability of humans to control their destiny and to develop themselves by learning

The Versailles Palace in the background of the stamp served to do what?

It was built as a pleasure prison to control the nobility by requiring their attendance there annually

The excerpt provides evidence to support the argument that, in the 17th century, absolute monarchs

Limited the nobility's participation in governance while maintaining a semblance of support for their traditional legal privileges

The events described in the passage most likely occurred in which modern-day country?

Mexico

Which of the philosophers described an ideal system of government using checks and balances?

Montesquieu

The shift in the Italian centers of the Renaissance from Florence to the Papal States most closely relates to

Patronage of the arts

According to the passage, which nation was primed for economic supremacy by 1498?

Portugal

The monarch's 1/5 cut of all the gold and silver found in the New World was called the

Quinto

Petrarch's Letter to Livy reflects which of the following major developments in European 15th century?

Revival of classical writing

In addition to foods, which of the following arguably had a greater if not equal impact?

Smallpox

Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau favored a social contract theory that

Suggested that humans originated in a state of nature and that government came about in order to prevent anarchy

What does Pope Boniface VIII see as the right relationship between the Church and secular power?

That the pope's authority is supreme in all realms

In the 17th century, with regard to political, religious, and economic liberties, England was most similar to

The Netherlands

Peter I brutally suppressed a revolt by

The Streltsy

Peasant revolts of this time period reflected what long-term social change occurring in Western Europe?

The decline of serfdom

The licensing of trade in the passage is an example of which of the following state policies?

The implementation of mercantilism to promote the state's economic interest

What is the purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas?

To stop the growing tensions between the emerging Catholic nation-states of Portugal and Spain

The letter excerpted above was intended for

William III of Orange

In the Thirty Years War, Cardinal Richelieu sided

With the Protestant side, against the Austrian Habsburgs

According to Mirandola, who or what determines your future?

You

Reformation

.

All of the following could be described as motivations behind the peasant revolt referenced in the passage EXCEPT

A response to the longstanding economic and political grievances in the countryside

The encomienda system was NOT ended by which of the following?

An increase in the number of mestizos, who by law were forbidden from......encomienda

Peter the Great's policies, as reflected by the image, were most similar to those of

Catherine the Great

Based on the information in this excerpt, which of the following statements would be the MOST accurate?

Da Vinci was the ultimate "Renaissance Man" because he was intellectually curious about many different subjects

Other European states reacted to the Portuguese establishment of a trading-post empire by

Developing rival colonies and overseas trading networks

The shaded areas on the map above represent which of the following?

Dynastic lands of the Habsburgs in the sixteenth century

The political divisions indicated by the map represent which of the following trends?

European political divisions were trending toward monarchial consolidation

The excerpt provides evidence to SUPPORT the argument that

Europeans had begun to look at secular models for political behavior

The trend demonstrated in this graph was primarily caused by

Exposure to European diseases

Why was Las Casas strongly opposed to the encomienda system?

He argued against the enslavement of the Amerindians and their forced conversion to Christianity

Scotland rebelled in 1640 due to the following action taken by Charles I and Archbishop Laud

Imposing the Anglican Book of Common Prayer on the Scots

Which of the following philosophers rejected the view described in the above excerpt and formulated the theory of natural rights?

Locke

The passage above most likely describes

Lorenzo de' Medici

The excerpt provides evidence to support the argument that

Louis XIV and his finance minister extended the administrative and financial control of the French state

The driving philosophy behind the conquistador's search for gold was the economy policy known as

Mercantilism

The excerpt shows the intellectual influence of

Mercantilism

The War of Spanish Succession resulted in the

Prohibition of the unification of the French and Spanish dynasties

One result of Peter the Great's policies was that

Russia acquired territory along the Baltic Sea

John Locke's theory of the tabula rasa

Stated that all knowledge came from experience

Based on your knowledge of early modern history, which of the Old World items listed was most impactful on both the New and Old World?

Sugarcane

Table 1 demonstrates the continued impact of which of the following early modern historical developments?

The Columbian Exchange

Which of the Estates often sided together when voting on taxes?

The First and Second Estates

Which of the following historical occurrences most likely led to the revolt referenced in the passage?

The Hundred Years' War

Which of the following events is the most similar to the revolt described in the passage?

The Jacquerie

According to Diamond's argument, the most important factor for the success of European colonization of the Americas lay in

The biological and environmental advantages held by Europeans

Who is the voice of the document?

The individual

The economic pattern described in this passage is most similar to which imminent commercial pattern?

The shift of economic importance from Asia to the New World

All of the following are EFFECTS of this trend EXCEPT

The spread of smallpox epidemics

In On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Copernicus asserted that

The sun is at the center of the universe and the planets move in elliptical orbits around it

Which new artistic technique seen in this piece is accredited to van Eyck?

The use of oil paint on wooden boards

Though they considered themselves Catholic, Italian humanists like Mirandela challenged traditional medieval Christian thinking in all of the following ways EXCEPT

They rejected the Christian conception of God in 3 aspects

Copernicus's theory was known as the ___________ theory and replaced the ____________ theory

Heliocentric; Ptolemaic

Exploration and colonization of the New World in the sixteenth century impacted the European balance of power by

Increasing the power of Spain and Portugal

What was the intent of the encomienda system in the New World?

Amerindians paid tributes to encomenderos who Christianized them and promised to protect them

What was the most insidious effect of the sudden influx of gold and silver into Spain in the ... century?

An increased rate of inflation

Like many Northern Renaissance artists, how did Durer learn advanced techniques allowing the movement as a whole to happen?

Durer and others traveled to Italy to learn from Italian masters and then took what they learned back home

Which of the following economic patterns does the passage describe?

Shifting of economic power in Europe from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic states

The Portuguese slave trade described in the passage led most directly to which of the following?

The establishment of a European-dominated system of plantation agriculture

The above excerpt quotes which of the following philosophers?

Hobbes

Humanism in the Renaissance combined secular and various Catholic and pagan themes; one major example of this is

Neoplatonism

Which of the scientists of the Scientific Revolution described the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation?

Newton

As portrayed in this piece, how does Bruegel's work break with artistic trends of the Renaissance?

His themes are centered on the everyday life of the peasantry rather than the Church or nobility

The building of such Cathedrals reflected what about European society at the time?

Grand domestic architecture was reserved primarily for the Catholic Church

Where is this passage most likely to be found?

The Prince

The Petition of Right stated which of the following?

The King could not suspend laws of parliament or raise taxes

Which of the following documents represented a direct reaction to the message of the excerpt above?

English Bill of Rights

By the mid-17th century, the Stuart monarchs' expression of attitudes similar to those revealed in the excerpt resulted in the

English Civil War

Which of the following was Louis XIV's greatest weakness as ruler?

He spent over two-thirds of his reign at war and much of it was fruitless

At the end of the French Wars of Religion, Henry IV converted from Calvinism to Catholicism because he

Wanted to gain control over Paris

This excerpt and all others from the above book would lead one to conclude that Giorgio Vasari

Was considered by many in the West to be the first modern art historian

Who enacted the Treaty of Tordesillas?

Pope Alexander VI

Upon his arrival in England, the recipient of the letter

Signed the English Bill of Rights, ensuring that future English monarchs would always respect the traditional rights of Parliament

What major point were both artists making in using the Old Testament story of David and Goliath as the theme of their artwork?

The young David represents the independent city-state of Florence standing against tyranny and/or the strongest states that threatened it on all of its borders.

Which of the following was NOT a reflection in these sculptures of the basic principles of Renaissance humanism?

These secular sculptures were a rejection of basic Christian beliefs

One result of the policies outlined in the excerpt was that, during the reign of Louis XIV, France

Financed four wars which upset the European balance of power, provoking alliances among other European nations

Which of the following is a difference between churches in the Northern and Italian Renaissances?

Northern churches were stark and bare while Italian churches were very bright and featured frescoes and statues

This excerpt provides evidence to support the argument that

The Renaissance period provided opportunities to raise debates about the role of women