Euro Midterm
Empiricism
1787, establish justice, defense, Peace, welfare, basic human rights.
Which of the following cities dominated European trade and finance in the early seventeenth century?
Amsterdam
Which of the following was most responsible for the steady population growth in eighteenth century Europe?
An overall decline in the death rate
Which of the following diseases did NOT produce a major epidemic after the eighteenth century?
Bubonic plague
The map above, showing religious divisions in Europe around 1600, illustrates which of the following differences between Lutheranism and Calvinism?
Calvinists were more likely to be a minority within a state than were Lutherans.
Which of the following was the major language spoken in most courts and diplomatic circles of Europe by the late seventeenth century?
French
In seventeenth-century Poland, the most significant political influence was exercised by the
Habsburg empire
The massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day (1572) was directed against
Huguenots in France
The British Great Reform Act of 1832 did which of the following?
Increased the voting power of the middle class
Which of the following best describes the results of the Peace of Augsburg (1555) ?
It provided a legal basis for the existence of Lutheranism.
Which of the following best describes the French Edict of Nantes (1598) ?
It provided limited political and religious liberties for French Huguenots.
"That the pretended powers of suspending of laws or the execution of laws by regal authority without consent of Parliament is illegal. That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative without grant of Parliament for longer time or in other manner than the same is illegal." The provisions above from the English Bill of Rights were enacted in response to
James II's attempts to dominate Parliament
The most influential religious order associated with the Catholic Reformation (CounterReformation) was the
Jesuit
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European political leaders generally viewed religious toleration as
Leading to dangerous civil disorder
The emblem above was used as a symbol for which of the following?
Louis XIV
"If a Prince wants to maintain his rule, he must learn how not to be virtuous, and to make use of this or not according to his need." The passage above best reflects the argument of
Machiavelli
The French Le Chapelier Law (1791) and the English Combination Acts (1799-1800) did which of the following?
Made workers' organizations illegal
The map above shows which of the following about luxury shops in seventeenth-century Madrid?
Merchants selling similar goods grouped their shops next to one another.
"Our sins have their source in Adam, and because Adam ate the apple, we have inherited sin from him. But Christ has shattered death in order that we might be saved by His works and not by our works. Christ says: I am your justification." Martin Luther Which of the following best describes Luther's meaning in the excerpt above?
Only faith in Christ will bring salvation, not good works.
"0 highest and most marvelous felicity of man! To him it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills." The excerpt above is representative of the ideas of
Pico delIa Mirandola, On the Dignity of Man
"Up! up! my Friend and quit your books; Let nature be your teacher. One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can. Enough of Science and of Art; Come forth, and bring with you a heart." The poem above reflects which of the following?
Romanticism
The cartoon above illustrates which of the following?
Social inequalities under the Old Regime in France
Napoleon Bonaparte's repressive occupation sparked a violent popular revolt in
Spain
Which of the following represents the final defeat of efforts by the Ottoman Empire to acquire large areas of central Europe?
The siege of Vienna (1683)
Which of the following affected the status of women during the Reformation?
The suppression of nunneries and the institution of a married clergy
Which of the following is true regarding the salons of the eighteenth century?
They discussed social questions as well as literary works.
The cahiers (notebooks) written on the eve of the French Revolution served which of the following purposes?
To present grievances and proposals for reform
Religious change in the seventeenth-century Netherlands led to
a great vitality in intellectual and artistic life
Italian women artists of the Renaissance and Baroque era were able to achieve recognition as artists primarily as a result of their
commissions from wealthy patrons
A controversial aspect of the Agricultural Revolution in eighteenth-century England was the transformation of common land into private land through the process known as
enclosure
The cartoon above from seventeenth-century England is an attempt to ridicule
fighting between royalist and parliamentary armies during the English Civil War
A distinguishing feature of the Old Regime in eighteenth-century France was the
inability of the monarchy to carry out reforms necessary for its survival
All of the following were common subjects of Italian Renaissance works of art EXCEPT
peasant life
The conversion to Catholicism of King Henry IV of France is an example of the policies of the
politiques
The contemporary drawing above of the storming of the Bastille was intended to portray
popular participation in the revolutionary process
The American Revolution played a major role in European history because it
precipitated the French fiscal crisis that led to the
A major result of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713) and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713-1714) was to
prevent France from upsetting the balance of power
The meeting of the Estates-General in 1789 marked a significant step toward revolution in France because it
provided a legitimate forum for critics of the Old Regime
According to Adam Smith, the "invisible hand" would
reconcile selfish individual interests with general economic benefits
"I asked him to tell me in what true religion consisted. 'Have I not told you?' [he answered] 'Love God and your neighbor as yourself. ", Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary In the excerpt above, Voltaire was supporting
religious toleration
The French Fronde is best described as the
revolt over increasing centralization of royal power
The most important political and military result of the Thirty Years' War and the Peace of Westphalia was the
rise of France as a great power
Portuguese commercial expansion overseas in the sixteenth century resulted in
seizure of Muslim coastal forts to serve as Portuguese trading posts and military bases
One of the main aims of the reforms in Russia under Peter the Great (1689-1725) was to make high social status more dependent on
service to the state
Peasant men in seventeenth- and eighteenth century Europe generally married in their late twenties primarily because
they wanted to first establish independent households
Lorenzo Valla's demonstration that the Donation of Constantine was fraudulent weakened the papacy's claim
to extensive territories in Italy
The basic goal of Napoleon's Continental System was to
weaken England economically