AP Euro first semester study guide

The central religious issue in England between 1534 and 1689 was the extent to which

Protestantism would remain the dominant force in the Church of England

During the Renaissance, the most widely read book of manners for the wealthy was

The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione

Which of the following statements is true regarding the outcome of the war of the roses?

The Tudor dynasty came to the throne

Which of the following was MOST important in advancing constitutionalism in Great Britain in the eighteenth century?

The emergence of the cabinet system

John Locke's Two Treatises on Civil Government approved of revolution provided that

The government had violated property rights

The specific abuse that Luther addressed in his "Ninety-Five Theses" was

The sale of indulgences

Elizabeth I attempted to reduce religious conflict in England through a compromise creed of faith known as the

Thirty-Nine articles

Which of the following was MOST important in advocating for "divine right" of kings under Louis XIV?

Thomas Hobbes

Italian Renaissance art is most appropriately described as

classically restrained and symmetrical

As a consequence of the English Reformation, Henry VIII

disbanded the monasteries

The achievements of the Jacobins included all of the following EXCEPT

distributing all land in rural areas among the peasants

The enclosure movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

fenced in public land for private use

The primary cause of the large increase in the population of Europe in the eighteenth century was

increase in the food supply

Viscount Charles Townsend's contribution to the Agricultural Revolution in England was

introducing turnips as part of crop rotation

All of the following are true of the "Agricultural revolution" in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe EXCEPT

steam-powered plows greatly increased yields

"Ecrasez I'infame," Voltaire's slogan of "crush the infamous thing" called for the suppression of

the church

Napoleon Bonaparte's Continental System had as it goal

the defeat of Britain through economic warfare

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's concept of the ideal government was centered on

the general will

All of the following are true about the Star Chamber courts of England EXCEPT

trials were public

Int the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the typical European marriage was most often made by

two mature people, generally in their late twenties

All of the following statements about Cardinal Richelieu are true EXCEPT that he

waged war on the French Jansnists

Which of the following best characterizes the Table of Ranks during reign of Peter the Great?

It set educational and performance levels for civil servants

Which of the following statements is true concerning Philip II of Spain?

He dedicated his reign to establishing Catholic orthodoxy in Europe

Which of the following statements concerning the Protestant Reformation is true?

It strengthened the power of secular rulers

Galileo's persecution by the Catholic Church was largely brought about by his support if which of the following?

Nicholas Copernicus

Which one of the following best characterizes the relationship between the Commercial Revolution and the Italian Renaissance?

The Commercial Revolution was a result of the Italian Renaissance

All of the following were preconditions for the Industrial Revolution EXCEPT

a strong guild system

The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama was the first European to

find an all-water route to India

The British Chartist movement of the nineteenth century drew much of its support from the

workers

In which area did opportunities for upper class women increase most during the Italian Renaissance?

Access to education

The Pugachev Rebellion threatened the monarchy of

Catherine the Great

During the second half of the seventeenth century, the power of Brandenburg-Prussia was enhanced primarily through the efforts of

Frederick William "The Great Elector"

The royal Society of London is associated with which of the following?

Growing correspondence within the scientific community

All of the following ere important aspects of the Catholic Reformation EXCEPT

The Augsburg Confession

The English Navigation Acts, the first of which was passed in 1651 were initially designed to

prevent Dutch trade with England's colonies.

The most powerful European ruler at the time of the protestant Reformation was

Charles V

Which of the following was the first woman in modern European history to advocate more opportunities and influence for women?

Christine de Pisan

The aide to granted to Great Britain in the peace of Utrecht (1713) gave it

Control over the African slave trade in the Spain's New world colonies

Which of the following was known as the "Prince of the Humanists," and in such works as In Praise of Folly, criticized the clergy and abuses that he saw in the Christian Church?

Desiderius Erasmus

Which one of the following statements best explains the political and military decline of Poland by the late-eighteenth century?

Difficulty achieving political consensus due to the liberum veto

The sixteenth century religious wars that plagued France ended with the

Edict of Nantes

The victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572) were

French Calvinists

As a consequence of the great northern war, Peter the great

Gave Russia a "window to the west" on the Baltic Sea

Which of the following statements is true regarding the peace of Augsburg (1555)?

German princes were allowed to determine whether their states would be Catholic or Lutheran

Baroque ideas and values were embodied most profoundly in the work of

Gianlorenzo Bernini

As a result of the tennis court oath, representatives of the third estate swore to

Drafts constitution for France

Which of the following statements regarding Deism is NOT correct?

It argued that revelation and faith were important in understanding God's laws

Which of the following best characterizes Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France?

It condemned the violence and anarchy of the French Revolution

Which of the following statements is accurate regarding the treaty of Tordesillas (1494)?

It divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal

All of the following statements regarding the English bill of rights are true EXCEPT

It officially established the kingdom of Great Britain

The northern renaissance differed from the renaissance in Italy in that

It placed a greater emphasis upon religious piety

Which of the following statements is true regarding the Treaty of Paris (1763)?

It removed France from North America

Ferdinand and Isabella's nationalistic politics led to the expulsion from Spain of large numbers of

Jews

Which of the following figures provided the foundation upon which Puritanism was based?

John Calvin

The fourteenth-century English reformers whose views were embodied in the Lollard movement was

John Wyclif

Which of the following monarchs instituted the largest number of "Enlightened" reforms?

Joseph II

Hohenzollern authority in ruling Prussia depended on the cooperation and support of the

Junkers

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, mystics such as Thomas a Kempis

Laid the foundations for Protestantism's personal approach to worship

The advances into Central Europe by the Ottoman Empire during the late-seventeenth century were pushed back by

Leopold I

The underlying goal of mercantilism was to

Maintain a favorable balance of trade in order to increase the country wealth

Which of the following sets of French Revolutionary phases is in correct chronological order (earliest to latest)?

National Assembly, legislative assembly, national convention, directory, consulate

"It is, then, much safer to be feared that to be loved..."

Niccolò Machiavelli

Which of the following was a result of Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution?

The church was made a department of the French state

The Defenestration of Prague was a cause of which of the following wars?

Thirty Years' War

Which of these statements expresses a fundamental difference between the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon in the seventeenth century?

Descartes emphasized deductive reasoning and was therefore less bound to observation

Which was NOT true of Italian city states during the Renaissances?

Governments routinely promoted the movement for Italian unification

Which of the following statements regarding the Colloquy of Marburg in 1529 is correct?

It was a debate between Luther and Zwingli which resulted in a formal split within Protestantism

Martin Luther's most fundamental theological idea was that

It was by faith alone and Gods grace that salvation could be achieved

The long term consequence of the Industrial Revolution for the working class was to

raise their standard of living

Which of the following statements regarding Catherine the Great is correct?

She extended Russia's territorial holdings at the expense of the Black Sea region

Which school of thought is most closely associated with the late-sixteenth-century writer, Micheal de Montaigne?

Skepticism

During the Thirty Years' War, the Lutheran movement was saved from extinction by the military intervention of which of the following?

Swedish king king, Gustavus Adolphus

Which pf the following was the most important in causing the Price Revolution in the sixteenth century?

The growth in Europe's population

Which of the following statements is true concerning the sans culottes during the French Revolution

They were urban working class and small scale merchants

All of the following have been advances as explanations for the coming of the French Revolution EXCEPT

a majority of the Frenchmen sought to replace the monarchy with a republic

In An Essay Concerning the Human Understanding, John Locke held that human knowledge was derived from

environmental and reason

Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal was significant during the Age of Exploration because he

financed the exploration of the west coast of Africa

Johannes Kepler's contribution to the Scientific Revolution was his

proof through mathematics that the orbits of the planets are elliptical

Which of the following political philosophers are correctly paired based upon the similarity of their views regarding political power?

Hobbes and Voltaire

Jean-Baptiste Colbert did all of the following to promote the French economy EXCEPT

enact protective tariffs and tolls within France's borders