chapter 15 & 16 questions
The concerns expressed by Barstow reflect which of the following ideas?
A primary reason for the European witch-hunts was gender stereotypes.
Which of the following represents a later example of the impact of Newton and the other scientists of his era?
An increased emphasis on reason in European culture.
Which of the following artistic movements would have been used by Louis XIV and other prominent monarchs and church officials of the time to glorify their state power?
Baroque
Vesalius's work proved that a number of accepted ideas about the human body were wrong. Who had been the accepted authority on the human body until Vesalius reversed his ideas?
Galen
Which of the following was also a result of this new era in science?
The questioning of religious authority
The main idea expressed by Briggs reflects which of the following?
Gender was not as important as social status regarding the European witch-hunts.
Newton's study of the idea of the universality of gravity was most influenced by which of the following scientific disciplines or ideas?
Heliocentric studies
Louis's revocation of the Edict of Nantes best reflects which of the following policies?
His expansion of religious control over France.
Which of the following actions by Louis XIV best reflect the ideas of the excerpt?
His policies that limited the nobility's participation in government.
Which of the following is a reason that Louis was almost constantly at war throughout most of his reign?
His pursuit of both dynastic and state interests.
The ideas in the excerpt above would have most influenced which of the following?
John Locke
Which of the following best represents change over time regarding the European witch-hunts?
New ideas in science based on observation and experimentation led to a decline in the European witch-hunts by the end of the seventeenth century.
Galileo's ideas about a heliocentric view of the universe would have been most influenced by which of the following scientists and thinkers?
Nicolaus Copernicus
In addition to England, which of the following developed a system of government that was not an absolute monarchy?
Poland
This excerpt would be most useful to historians as a source of information about which of the following?
The impact of mathematics on future scientific study.
Which of the following was the most immediate cause for the excerpt?
The outcome of the Glorious Revolution, which established parliamentary supremacy.
The trends described by Barstow and Briggs most directly illustrate which of the following major historical developments in Europe?
The social and economic upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The ideas of Andreas Vesalius based on the above image would have been most challenged by which of the following?
Those who still believed in the authority of the church.
The image most directly reflects:
anatomical and medical discoveries of the time period
The dialogue above shows that scientists of the era increasingly:
defined a new kind of reasoning that would ultimately shape the "scientific method".
Based on the dialogue above, it can be inferred that Galileo:
questioned the authority of the ancients
