history mid term part 1

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

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

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

Hasburgs

Among most of the countries of Europe, the Netherlands was exceptional in its finances in that:

Its urban residents were willing to pay higher taxes on manufactures and farming.

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

Calvinism

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

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

Ensure that governmental activities functioned properly.

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

King henry IV

An assistant of Galileo, Evangelista Torricelli experimented with mercury-filled tubes to lay the groundwork for the first ___________.

barometer

The New Sciences were allowed to flourish in northern Europe, especially in the Netherlands and England, mainly because of:

certain liberty of investigation that others lacked

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

Kraków

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

Philology

In France, Protestants were known as

huguenots

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

1517

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

Swedish

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

Spain fought to retain control over ________________ until 1648, when it recognized its independence.

the netherlands

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

The work of the German ________ Martin Waldseemüller probably had an effect on the scientific theories of Nicolaus Copernicus.

Cartographer

The lasting achievement of Gabrielle-Émilie du Châtelet was:

Her translation of Newton's Mathematical Principles into French

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

Hohenzollern

Despite the appearance of his beaming benevolence at Versailles, the "absolutist" rule of ____________ was a complex mixture of centralized and decentralized forces.

Louis XIV

When the Catholic Reformation drove the New Sciences to northwestern Europe chartered scientific societies, such as _______,were founded.

The royal society of London

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