Chapter 17 Quiz

Experiments in the _______ with movable metal typeface resulted in the innovation of the printing press.

1430's

Martin Luther protested the sale of indulgences in __________ with 95 theses addressed to his archbishop.

1517

The New Sciences we're allowed to flourish in Northern Europe, especially in the Netherlands and England mainly because of:

A certain liberty of investigation that others lacked.

In the presence of the German emperor Ferdinand III in 1672, Otto von Guericke demonstrated that:

A vacuum could be created by pumping the air out of two sealed spheres.

The Jewish community of __________ excommunicated Baruch Spinoza for heresy, since he seemed to make god immanent in the world.

Amsterdam

Under difficult conditions during the Thirty Years' War, Maria Cunitz wrote a treatise on ___________ that corrected the calculations of previous scholars and offered simplified calculations of star positions

Astronomy

An assistant of Galileo, Evangelista Torricelli experimented with mercury-filled tubes to lay ground work for the first__________.

Barometer

Acquiring wealth with the help of money and thereby perhaps gaining a glimpse of one's fate became one of the hallmarks of ____________.

Calvinism

The work of the German _______ Martin Waldseemuller probably had an effect on the scientific theories of Nicklaus Copernicus.

Cartographer

As a part of his reforms, Tsar Peter I "the great" _________ many of the farmers.

Classified and taxed as serfs

Coffeehouses allowed the literate urban public to meet, read __________, and exchange ideas.

Daily Newspapers

The central objective of the "Glorious Revolution" in England was the:

Deposing of a king and his replacement by his daughter and Dutch husband.

Louis XIV sent salaried, itinerant intendants around the provinces to:

Ensure that governmental activities functioned properly.

In the formulation of his "law of falling bodies", Galileo systematically combined imagination with empirical research and _______.

Experimentation

"Renaissance" thinkers and artists considered their period a time of "rebirth" (the literal meaning of the word in the _____________) language

French

Despite his appearance in the city in 1536, it was well into the 1550s before John Calvin's form of Protestantism prevailed in __________.

Geneva

Humanism was an intellectual movement focused on human culture, in such fields as philosophy, philology, and literature, and based on the corpus of ___________ texts.

Greek and Roman

The lasting achievement of Gabrielle-Émilie du Chatelet was:

Her translation of Newtons Mathematical Principles into French

In France, Protestants we're known as

Huguenots

As a proponent of Copernican heliocentrism, Galileo seemed to contradict the passage in the Hebrew Bible's Book of ___________, in which God stops the sun in the sky for a day.

Joshua

Copernicus began his studies at the University of __________, the only eastern European school to offer courses in astronomy.

Krakow

In 1649, a group of farmers and day laborers occupied "common" land south of __________ and set up a colony.

London

The ruler with the longest reign in France was:

Louis XIV

Isaac Newton's _________ Principle of Natural Philosophy, published in 1687, was the towering achievement of the New Sciences.

Mathematical

In a much-publicized statement, the Diggers insisted they were:

Merely cultivating public land, which was "the treasure of all people"

What Russian tsar's reforms resulted in the establishment of a more centralized Russian state?

Peter I

The innovations of Desiderius Erasmus contributed to the field of ________.

Philology

The main goal of Gustavia II Adolphus's intervention in the Thirty Years War was the consolidation of __________ power in the region.

Swedish

Under the Hohenzollern, Prussia developed a strong army which would be used by Frederick II to challenge ________ for dominance in the Holy Roman Empire.

The Habsburgs

As a part of the Catholic Reformation, the council of Trent ended ______

The payment of indulgences

As part of the catholic reformation, the council of Trent ended _______

The payment of indulgences

Which ruler brought religious conflict between the Huguenots and Catholics through the issue of the edict of Nantes in 1598?

Henry IV

A member of the _________ family of rulers, Frederick II "the Great" of Prussia enlarged his army and pursued an aggressive foreign policy.

Hohenzollern

The portolan (nautical chart) drawn by Pedro Rein is the earliest known map to include_________.

Lines of Latitude

The Baroque artistic aesthetic could be best described as:

Spontaneous and Dramatic

Descartes concluded that a person, including himself, was composed of two radically different substances, a material substance that can be understood with the senses and another that consisted of:

The Thinking Mind