AP Euro- Ch. 15 Study Guide

The English civil war pitted

A) England against Ireland.

Under the terms of the Peace of Westphalia,

A) European conflicts over religious faith ended.

An important factor in the strengthening of French absolutism was

A) King Louis XIV's refusal to call the Estates General into session.

By the seventeenth century, nobles in Eastern Europe had

A) gained unchallenged control over the peasants who worked their lands.

Peter the Great was interested in reform because he hoped to

A) increase Russia's territory.

In the early seventeenth century, the King of England claimed

A) kings had absolute power by divine right.

The negative reputation of Ivan the Terrible grew from his violent treatment of

A) many of the leading boyar families.

According to the English Test Act of 1673,

A) political participation was based upon adherence to the Church of England.

French policy under Cardinal Richelieu focused primarily on

A) preventing the Catholic Habsburg from holding territories surrounding France.

French foreign policy under Cardinal Richelieu focused primarily on

A) preventing the Catholic Habsburgs from holding territories surrounding France.

The most striking feature of the states in Eastern Europe was a

A) vigorous middle class.

_____________ ruled from 1643 to 1715, the longest reign in European history.

B) Louis XIV

Under Ivan the Terrible,

B) artisans were bound to their towns so that they could be heavily taxed.

In 1649, after the execution of Charles I, England was declared a

B) commonwealth.

Historians today consider the success of absolutism under Louis XIV to be due mostly to his

B) expansion and professionalization of the army.

The most enduring legacy of Fred. Will. I was

B) his providing a foundation for the most militaristic country of modern times.

To strengthen his armies, Peter the Great did all of the following except

B) require all military positions be filled by native Russians to ensure loyalty to him.

During the middle decades of the seventeenth century, the European nation that prospered the most was

B) the Netherlands.

Elizabeth I of England was succeeded by

C) James I.

During Louis XIV's reign, French explorers in North America established

C) Louisiana

Cossacks were

C) Russian peasants who had fled their lords.

Cossaks were

C) Russian peasants who had fled their lords.

By 1740, under the rule of Frederick William I, Prussia, twelfth in Europe in population

C) had the best army in Europe.

The root cause of the Thirty Years' War was

C) religious

The guiding principle behind Cardinal Richelieu's domestic policies was

C) the subordination of all groups and institutions to the monarchy.

As a result of the Thirty Years' war, the Austian Habsburgs

C) turned inward and eastward in an attempt to unify their power.

Peter the Great built St. Petersburg largely with

C) unpaid peasant labor.

During the struggle between Frederick William the Great Elector and the Prussian nobility,

C) war and invasion strengthened Frederick William's hand.

At the Battle of Poltava, Peter the Great defeated

D) Sweden.

The political and cultural center of the Habsburg Empire was

D) Vienna.

The Time of Troubles refers to

D) a royal succession crisis and civil war in Russian at the beginning of the seventeenth century.

The most important lesson Louis XIV learned from the Fronde was that the

D) alternative to anarchy was absolute monarchy.

According to Frederick Willian I, a nation's power was best served by having a strong

D) army.

Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate is best described as a

D) military dictatorship.

The Peace of Utrecht

D) represented the balance-of-power principle in operation.

All of the following contributed to Spain's mid-seventeenth century financial crisis except

D) the monarchy's refusal to declare bankruptcy.

A comparison of the lives of the seventeenth century western and Eastern European peasants reveals

E) All of these.

Peter the Great's "westernization" of Russia included the requirement that nobles

E) All of these.

The true establishment of Prussian absolutism came under the rule of

E) Frederick William I

Mercantilist theory postulated that

E) a nation's international power was based on wealth, especially its gold supply.

French intendants were directly responsible

E) the monarchy.

In the early 17th century, English Puritans wanted

E) to eliminate, among other things, bishops from the Church of England.

In Peter the Great's tour of Western Europe, he

E) was notably impressed by the Dutch and English.

As an "age of crisis," problems in 17th century Europe included all of the following except

E) weakened governments.