World Civ chapter 15

By 1500, poor city-dwellers constituted ____ percent of the urban population.

30-40

Which of the following was not a position taken by Martin Luther?

Acts of good work are the sole source of salvation.

After the Turks were defeated in 1687 all of Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, and Slovenia came under Habsburg rule, thus establishing in southeastern Europe the

Austrian Empire.

The greatest figure of the Baroque was the architect and sculptor

Bernini

Which of the following was not a result of the development of printing in Europe?

Chinese influence over European affairs rose sharply because of their invention of paper.

The most influential Christian humanist, who popularized the reform program of Christian humanism, was

Desiderius Erasmus.

The individual who "laid the egg that Luther hatched" was

Erasmus.

The artistic movement that dominated the Western artistic world during the seventeenth century was known as Neo-classical, inspired by the legacy of Greece and Rome.

False

The first true book produced from moveable type was Marco Polo's Travels.

False

The greatest danger to Louis XIV's rule came from rebellious peasants.

False

The major advocate of predestination was Martin Luther.

False

Where Lutheranism was established, the state played no role in supervising or overseeing the church.

False

Peasants made up the overwhelming mass of the third estate except in

Flanders and northern Italy.

The city most associated with Calvin is

Geneva

The European ruler who developed the first standing army of conscripts, notable for the flexibility of its tactics, was

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.

Machiavelli's emphasis that the ends justify the means had been expressed earlier by

India's Kautilya.

All except which of the following would characterize the Jesuit order?

It arranged a theological compromise with the Protestants.

The first Russian ruler who took the title of tsar, who expanded the territories of Russia to the east, and who crushed the power of the nobility was

Ivan IV.

The Institutes of the Christian Religion, a masterful synthesis of Protestant thought, was written by

John Calvin.

The traditional example of seventeenth century absolutism has been the rule of

Louis XIV.

As a result of the 1555 Peace of Augsburg,

Lutheranism became established as an alternative to Roman Catholicism in the Germanies.

Which of the following are correct statements about life in Protestant Europe in the 1500s and 1600s?

Ministers were allowed to get married and have families.

All of the following aided in the development of French absolutism except

NOT NOT NOT putting down rebellious challenges to royal rule.

The writer who best gave expression to the sixteenth century preoccupation with political power was

Niccolo Machiavelli.

The only military genius of the English Civil War was

Oliver Cromwell.

As a result of the Glorious Revolution in England

Parliament became a major participant in the running of the English government.

After Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon was annulled by the Archbishop of Canterbury,

Parliament finalized England's religious break with Rome by passing the Act of Supremacy, making Henry the head of the Anglican Church.

The pope who began the reformation of the papacy was

Paul III

The Baroque painting style was especially evident in the works of

Peter Paul Rubens.

The "most Catholic king" and the ruler who sparked a civil war in the Netherlands was

Phillip II

The golden age of English literature is represented by

Shakespeare.

Which of the following is not an accurate reference to Anabaptist ideas and practices?

They saw government as a direct partner with religion in society.

After the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church had a clear body of doctrine under the supremacy of the pope.

True

Although world-wide trade increased in seventeenth century, local, regional, and intra-European trade still predominated.

True

During England's Commonwealth era of the 1650s, Oliver Cromwell ruled as a military dictator.

True

During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the landholding nobles faced declining real incomes.

True

The issue that drove Luther to writing his Ninety-Five Theses was the selling of indulgences.

True

The legacy Louis XIV left to France was

a nation that was financially destitute.

John Calvin

advaced the doctrine of predestination

In England, during the period of the 1640s to 1660, all of the following occurred except

after the death of Charles I, Cromwell became the new king of England.

After the death of Henry VIII, England

became more Protestant under Edward VI.

The spark that began the Glorious Revolution was the

birth of a son to James II.

Luther's reforms included all of the following except

clerical celibacy.

As a result of the Glorious Revolution, England became a

constitutional monarchy.

James I alienated England's Parliament because of his advocacy of

divine right of kings.

The Council of Trent took the position that

faith and good works were required for salvation.

Advocates of "mercantilism" argued for all of the following except

governments should abstain from any involvement in the economy.

An important reason why Henry VIII broke with the Roman church was because

he could not get Rome's permission to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon.

Baroque artists sought to harmonize the

ideals of Renaissance art with spiritual feelings of the religious reformations.

All of the following were policies of Peter the Great except

isolating Russia from the ways and customs of western Europe.

All of the following were true about the witchcraft craze in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries except

it was exclusively a big-city phenomenon.

The Edict of Nantes

legitimized Calvinist worship and permitted Calvinists to engage in politics in France.

All of the following statements are correct except

love was the major reason for marriage.

The third estates included

peasants, merchants, and artisans.

Queen Elizabeth I

successfully survived the Spanish armada.

Among the major elements underlying the Social Crisis of the 1600s was

that the Mediterranean area entered a steep economic decline as silver imports from Spanish colonies declined.

In the fifteenth century, the Italians especially the Venetians in their commercial empires were only rivaled by

the Hansiatic League

Among the complaints of religious Europeans around 1500 was

the belief that the clergy were too interested in financial matters and disinterested in religion.

Puritans were all of the following except that

they admired the Catholic elements in the Church of England

The Thirty Years' War

was ended by the signing of the Peace of Westphalia.