Chapter 16 & 17 WH2

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The New Sciences were allowed to flourish in northern Europe, especially in the Netherlands and England, mainly because of:

A certain liberty of investigation that other areas lacked

The rise of the Ottomans in the fourteenth century came at the expense of ____________.

Byzantine Empire

Louis XIV sent salaried, itinerant intendants around the provinces to:

Ensure that governmental activities functioned properly

The purpose of the Spanish Inquisition, appointed in 1481, was to:

Ferret out any people whose beliefs were contrary to Church teachings

The alliance between the Ottomans and the __________ horrified western Europe in 1534 because it indicated that the Ottoman Empire was a player in European politics.

French

Humanism was an intellectual movement focused on human culture, in such fields as philosophy, philology, and literature, and based on the corpus of ___________ texts.

Greek and Roman

Philip II was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1575 and sue for peace for the Ottomans in 1580 because:

He had failed to suppress a ruinously expensive rebellion in the Netherlands

Among most of the countries of Europe, the Netherlands was exceptional in its finances in that:

Its urban residents were willing to pay higher taxes on manufactures and farming

The Ottomans defeated the ____________ and took control of western Arabia, including the pilgrimage city of Mecca, in 1517.

Mamluks

The Baroque artistic aesthetic could best be described as:

Voluptuous and dramatic

As part of his reforms, Tsar Peter I "the Great" ______________ many of the farmers.

classified and taxed as serfs

Isaac Newton's ___________ Principles of Natural Philosophy, published in 1687, was the towering achievement of the New Sciences.

mathematical

The central objective of the "Glorious Revolution" in England was the:

permanently established Parliament as the ruling power of England—and, later, the United Kingdom—representing a shift from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy.

The Ottomans benefited from the trade of a new commodity, _____________, which was produced in Ethiopia and Yemen.

sandalwood

Martin Luther protested ________ in 1517 with 95 theses addressed to his archbishop.

the sale of indulgences

The Ottoman army carried all wages, gunpowder, weapons, and the majority of its food in its wagons and barges because:

Soldiers were not permitted to provision themselves from the belongings of villagers

Descartes concluded that a person, including himself, was composed of two radically different substances, a material substance that can be understood with the senses and another that consisted of:

The thinking mind

When the moriscos were driven out of Spain in the early seventeenth century, they:

Were forced to leave all their possessions behind in Spain

The Janissaries were recruited from the __________ population of the empire.

local christian


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