Ap Euro Midterm
A striking feature of the salons was that
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According to it's editor, the fundamental goal of the Encyclopedia was to
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After the Thirty Years' war, ____ were legally permissible creeds within the Holy Roman Empire
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Alexander Nevsky, the Prince of _____, was adapted at serving at the Mongols
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All of the following were causes of the Scientific Revolution except
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Anabaptists generally favored all of the following except
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At the end of the sixteenth century, the financial capital of the European world was
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Between 1750 and 1789 the majority of French book were produced by publishing companies in
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Between 75 and 85 percent of those tried and executed for witchcraft were
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Catherine the great of Russia came to power in 1762 through
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Copernicus's theory of the universe
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Empiricism emphasized
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Enlightenment thinkers developed the idea that race was similar to
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Immanuel Kant argued for
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In general, what was Voltaire's attitude towards government?
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In his Spirit of laws, Montesquieu argued for
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John Calvin's reform movement
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Led by Stenka Razin, the _____ revolted in 1670-1671
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Membership at the salon was
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Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate is the best described as a
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Political power in the Dutch republic was
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Prince Henry of Portugal is significant for his
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Rousseau believed hat
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The Declaration of the rights of Man and the Citizen guaranteed all of the following except
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The French financial system under the Louis XIV had all of the following weaknesses except
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The Frond was
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The German Peasants' revolt of 1525 greatly strengthened the authority of
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The Tennis court of Oath was
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The ____ was used to determine the altitude of the sun and other celestial bodies
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The accomplished of the National Assembly included all of the following except the
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The chinese emperor sent Admiral ___ on seven voyages to the west between 1405 and 1433
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The concept of the reading revolution refers to
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The consolidation of _____ in Eastern Europe was accompanied by the rise of estate agriculture
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The first phase of the Thirty Years' War is known as the ____ phase
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The habsburg emerged from the thirty years war
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The index was
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The key feature of Newton's system was the law of
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The most famous salon was that of
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The peace of ____ ended the Thirty Years' war
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The population of St. Petersburg was
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The primary motivation for European explorers was
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The primary purpose of Fontenelle's Conversations on the plurality of worlds (1686) was to
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The reformation in England was primarily the result of
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The reign of Terror ended when
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The two generally given credit for creating the modern scientific method were Francis Bacon and
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Which of the absolutist monarchs was often looked upon as the best example of an example of an absolute monarch in Europe
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Which of the following was NOT one of the outcomes of Peace of Utrecht?
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____ is the limitation of government by law
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____ reduced all of the substances to matter and minds as well as proving his existence by stating "cogito ergo sum"
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____'s plays include Tartuffe and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
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_____;s Candide satirized French society
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Movable type was invented in Europe around
1454
Charles II was restored to the English throne in
1660
In 1635, Cardinal Richelieu gave official recognition to the
A French academy
By the end of the American Revolutionary War, Britain was at the war with
America
Before the scientific revolution, Europeans' view of the universe was based on the ideas of
Aristotle
As a result of the Peace of Augsburg, people of Germany
Became either Lutheran of Catholic depending on the preference of their prince
The doctrine of indulgence rests on all of the following principles except belief
Belief of salvation from faith alone
____'s Decameron embodied the new secular spirit
Boccaccio
The Ottoman empire was
Built around comers not war
Early public health measures that may have helped reduced death rates in eighteenth century Europe included all of the following except
C) discovering an effective vaccine against the bubonic plague.
The Baroque style flourished on the context of
Catholic Reformation
In 1521, Charles V ordered Luther to appear before the
Diet of worms
The primary instrument of Dutch overseas imperialism was the
Dutch east India company
According to the Dutch Humanist Erasmus, the key to reform was
Education
In 1685 , ____ was the strongest and most centralized state in europe
England
The spark that caused the English Glorious Revolution was the
Fear that the Catholic Dynasty being established by James the II
All of the following were among the italian powers that dominated the peninsula except
Ferrara
In the fifteenth century, ____ took the lead in all forms of art
Florence
The saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre led to
French revolution
Mercantilist theory postulated that
Government should intervene to secure the largest share of limited resources
In 1592, ___issued the edict of Nantes
Henry IV
Prussia's land owning classes were known as the
Junkers
In terms of gender relations, Renaissance Humanists argued that
Men and men alone should act in the public sphere
The Ottomans divided their subjects into religious communities known as
Millets
The most enduring legacy of Frederick William I was
Molding the for militarist countries of modern times
The ____ system dominated political life of Versailles
Patronage
____ was the best and most important of the Baroque painters
Peter Paul Rubens
In the fifteenth century, many clerics held more than one benefice, a practice known as
Pluralism
The Edict of Nantes was intended to
Promote temporary religious and civil tolerance
The English Navigation Act of the 1651
Required English goods to be transported to english ships
The gabelle was a tax on
Salt
Which of the the following subject experienced a surge of popularity among the reading public in the eighteenth century?
Science
Thomas More's Utopia placed the blame for society's problems on
Society itself
Italian Humanists stressed the
Study of classics for what they could reveal about human nature
At the battle of white mountain (1620)
The hamburgs crushed a rebellion of the bohemian noble in defence and protestants rights
The English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes held that
The power of the ruler was absolute and prevented the civil war
The decline of the Dutch economy was caused by
The wars of the seventeenth century
In the "Defenestration of Prague" agents of the Catholic of Bohemia were
Thrown out the window
Wealthy individuals sponsored artists and works of art
To glorify themselves and their families
Between 1632 and 1659, the French army increased by how many times
Two
Louis XIV installed his royal court at
Versailles
The Ottoman's European expansion was halted with the failed siege of
Vienna
The italian balance of power diplomacy
Was designed to prevent a single Italian state from dominating the peninsula
According to Machiavelli, the sole test of a good government was whether it
Was effective
The social group that most often resisted the centralized efforts of the new monarchs
Was the nobility
According to Olympia de Gouges
men and women
The life-and-death political struggle between the Girondins and the Mountains resulted mainly from
personal jealousy and hatred
The guiding force behind Cardinal Richelieu's domestic policies was
subordinate of all groups and institutions of monarchy
The reign of Terror was directed primarily at
those who opposed the revolutionary government
