AP Euro Chapter 15 Test

Machiavelli's The prince advocates that a successful ruler must

Act without scruples (morals) for the good of the state

In addition to England, which of the following developed a system of government that was not an absolute monarchy?

Austria

Which of the following is the most important reason for the English Civil War?

Conflicts between the king and parliament

The primary motive for European exploration was

Economic

The African slave trade

Increased warfare and violence in Africa because of the increasing demand for prisoners who could be sold as slaves

In the seventeenth century the prominence of the Dutch republic and the city of Amsterdam as a great power

Was supported by economic and financial prosperity

Peter the Great's ambition was to make Russia more like

Western Europe

Martin Luther's break with the church was prompted by

Widespread sale of indulgences

Which of the following European leaders would most likely support Louis' actions as described in the excerpt?

William and Mary

Which of the following groups benefitted most from the western reforms of Peter the Great?

Women

Thomas Hobbes

stated that human nature was animalistic, and needed a strong government to maintain social order.

As Louis XIII's chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu was most successful in

strengthening the central role of the monarchy in domestic and foreign policy.

Absolutism means

ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right.

One of the major economic problems of the sixteenth century in Europe was

A dramatic rise in prices

The "glorious revolution" in 1688 in England was significant for

Bloodlessly deposing James II in favor of William of Orange

The polish monarchy can be described as strong, centralized, and consistent

False

Following the Thirty Years' War, what country became dominant in Europe?

France

As a result of the Peace of Westphalia of 1648

German states were allowed to determine their religion.

Which of the following is a reason that Louis was almost constantly at war throughout much of his reign?

His desire to extend his administrative control over France

The chief reason for the wars of Louis XIV was

His desire to insure the dominance of France in all Europe

Louis' 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 statements best applies to Peter the Great of Russia?

His successful wars against Sweden led to his "window to the west" and the constructions of St. Petersburg

The ideas of the excerpt above would have most influenced which of the following?

John Locke

All of the following reasons resulted from the from the Glorious Revolution EXCEPT

Limited religious toleration was extended to the Catholics

The Fronde, an uprising in France that nearly overthrew Louis XIV early in his reign, a revolt of the French

Nobility

Which of the following best characterizes religion on the eve of reformation?

People sought certainty of salvation through a variety of means including the veneration of relics and purchase of indulgences

The overall practical purpose of the court of Versailles was to

Reduce the independence and power of the high nobility and royal princes

Cardinal Richelieu understood that, in Louis XIV's France, the most important roadblock to building monarchy was

Resistance by the great nobles

Louis XIV's edict of Fontainebleau

Revoked the earlier Edict of Nantes, curtailed the rights of the French Protestants, and caused thousands of Huguenots to flee the country

The victory of Peter the Great in the Great Northern War led us to which of the following outcomes?

Russia established a strong Baltic presence with the construction of St. Petersburg and Sweden because a second rate power

Under Charles II, Parliament passed the Test Act to

Specify that only Anglicans could hold military and civil offices

All of the following have been identified with the "military revolution" in the century after 1560 EXEPT

The increased use of militias and volunteers soldiers

Which of the following statements is true of the statements about the means of overseas expansion during the age of exploration?

The nations most heavily involved in overseas trade were those that had dominated trade during the medieval and Renaissance periods

Sulieman the Magnificent is associated with

The ottoman empire

Which of the following was the most immediate cause for the excerpt?

The outcome of the glorious revolution, which established parliamentary supremacy

Which of the following is the underlying premise of mercantilism

There is a limit to the amount of bullion in the world, and the nation that controls the most will prosper

John Locke believed people were born with unalienable rights that the government was responsible for protecting

True

Louis XIV set the example of absolute rule in Europe

True

St. Petersburg served as Russia's "window to the west"

True

The Austrian Monarchy never became a highly centralized, absolutist state, in part because it included too many different national groups

True

Louis XIV used his palace at Versailles to

dominate the nobility and display his grandeur.

James I of England alienated most of the members of Parliament by

insisting on his right to govern through Divine Right

English Bill of Rights

laid the foundation for a constitutional monarchy

Among other things, the Petition of Right

maintained that the King could pass no new tax without the consent of Parliament.

Frederick William the Great Elector built Brandenburg-Prussia into a significant European power by

making the General War Commissariat the bureaucratic machine of his state.

The Council of Trent

reaffirmed traditional Catholic beliefs against the Reformation.

After the conclusion of the Thirty Years' War in 1648, the Holy Roman Empire

was not really an empire at all but rather a loose association of 300 German states.

The economic policies of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's controller general of finances

were based on the economic theory of mercantilism