AP Euro Chapter 17
Each nation, or ________, in the Ottoman Empire enjoyed autonomous self-government under its religious leaders.
millet
The most enduring legacy of Frederick William I was
molding the most militaristic country of modern times.
As a result of the revolt by the Bohemian nobility in 1618,
much of the native Bohemian nobility was replaced with nobles loyal to the Habsburgs.
Led by Stenka Razin, the ____________ revolted in 1670-1671.
Cossacks
How was the emergence of large Cossack bands in the Ukraine in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries related to political and economic developments to the north in Russia?
Many Cossacks were peasants fleeing enserfment in Russia.
The _________ sacked Kiev in 1242.
Mongols
Alexander Nevsky, prince of __________, was adept at serving the Mongols.
Moscow
Charles XII of Sweden scored a major victory over Peter the Great at the Battle of
Narva.
Following the late seventeenth century schism in the Russian Orthodox church, dissenters from the official church became known as
Old Believers.
Which powers participated in the partitioning of Poland in the late eighteenth century?
Prussia, Russia, and Austria.
According to the text, which power had the most efficient military in Europe, man for man, in the early 1700s?
Prussia.
After the Time of Troubles, the Romanov tsars
relaxed the obligations of the nobility.
During the Time of Troubles (1598-1613) Russia faced all of the following troubles except
religious schism.
The first tactic employed by the landlords to cope with labor shortages was to
restrict peasant freedom of movement.
During the reigns of Ivan III and Ivan IV, Muscovite society
saw the rise of the service nobility.
The consolidation of ___________ in eastern Europe was accompanied by the rise of estate agriculture.
serfdom
The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire filled the top ranks of his bureaucracy with
slaves, many of them taken from the Christian Balkans as boys and converted to Islam.
The Pragmatic Sanction issued by Charles VI in 1713
stated that Habsburg lands were never to be divided.
All of the following contributed to the Great Elector Frederick William's political victory over the Brandenburg Estates except
subsidies of the Great Elector by France.
The illegal book trade in France featured all of the following types of literature except
technical journals on agriculture and industry.
At the Battle of White Mountain (1620)
the Habsburgs crushed a rebellion of the Bohemian noble Estates in defense of Protestant rights.
The accomplishments of Frederick William the Great Elector include all of the following except
the abolition of serfdom.
All of the following were factors in the Hungarians' fight against Habsburg absolutism except
the commercial and industrial strength of Hungary.
The Baroque palaces of central and eastern European princes were modeled on
Versailles.
Ivan IV carried out a reign of terror against the Muscovite
boyars.
The population of St. Petersburg was
compelled by Peter to reside there.
In the aftermath of the siege of Vienna in 1683, the Habsburgs
conquered most of Hungary and Transylvania.
The administration of justice in eastern Europe generally was
controlled by local landlords.
One important factor in the rise of princes of Moscow to domination over other Slavic cities in the area was
cooperation with the Mongols.
The importance and liberty of eastern European towns were undermined, in large part, by
nobles selling agricultural commodities directly to foreign capitalists.
Serfdom was established in eastern Europe between
1400 and 1650.
The ___________ state was composed of three separate and distinct territories.
Habsburg
How did Peter the Great approach the problem of finding labor to build his new capital of St. Petersburg?
He conscripted tens of thousands of Russian peasants to work each summer.
Prussia's landowning classes were known as the
Junkers.
After the death of ____________ in 1566, Ottoman monarchial absolutism gave way to palace intrigue.
Suleiman the Magnificent
What was the impact of the Thirty Years' War on Brandenburg-Prussia?
These areas were alternately ravaged by Swedish and Habsburg armies.
Peter's involvement in the Great Northern War was a consequence of
his adherence to an aggressive alliance against Sweden.
According to the text, the reason that labor shortages led to freedom for peasants in western Europe and bondage for peasants in eastern Europe was
the monarchs in eastern Europe were weaker before the seventeenth century and could not restrain the nobles from oppressing the peasants.
In the Ottoman Empire
there was virtually no such thing as private landed property.
In response to the problems of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the landlords of eastern Europe
used political power to gain control of the peasants.
The reign of Peter the Great was characterized by
incessant warfare.
