Senior Seminar WH Quiz 07

Speaker A: The gods approached Vishnu, the lord of creatures, and said: "Indicate to us that one person among mortals who alone is worthy of the highest rank . . ." Vishnu reflected, and brought forth a glorious son who became the first king. Speaker B: The traditional African society, whether it had a chief or not, was a society of equals and it conducted its business through discussion. Speaker C: Ideally, the best form of government is one where every citizen not only has a voice but also, at least occasionally, is called on to take actual part. Speaker D: A monarch's authority comes directly from God, and this is how the leadership and power in a society should be determined. Which speakers would support the theory explaining the power of France's Louis XIV, Spain's Philip II, and England's Elizabeth I?

A and D

Francis Bacon believed that scientific work was

A collective and collaborative enterprise and that scientists should exchange information so as not to waste and duplicate research

As a leader of the "scientific revolution", Isaac Newton was

A recluse who spent his time in Cambridge

Rene Descartes believed he had proven the existence of God through his use of systematic doubt in his book

A. Discourse on the Method

The Magna Carta, The Glorious Revolution, and the writings of John Locke all contributed to Great Britain's development of

A. Parliamentary democracy

A result of the Scientific Revolution was the development of

All of the above

Mechanism

All of the above

The laws of planetary motion state

All of the above

Science entails

All of these

The trial of Galileo by the Inquisition resulted in

All of these

What did Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels believe would be the result when communism finally emerged as the dominant political and economic system?

All the evils of industrial society would disappear

Johannes Kepler built on the work of his mentor, Tycho Brahe, to

Correct two of Copernicus's assumptions concerning planetary motion

Which generalization about democracy is most valid?

Democratic governments protect basic civil liberties

Galileo published ___________ in 1632

Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World

One long term effect of the Scientific Revolution was the

Enlightenment

A similarity of the rule of the ancient Mongols and the ancient Greeks is that both

Established vast empires and spread their cultures to the people they conquered

A method of reasoning that goes from the specific to the general was developed by

Francis Bacon

Isaac Newton's best-known work today was his research conducted on

Gravity

Newton used mathematics to prove the existence of a force that kept planets in their orbits around the sun and he called it

Gravity

The bulk of the philosophy of Rene Descartes may be summed up by which statement?

I think, therefore I am

After the breakup of the Austria-Hungarian Empire and the Soviet Union, new nations were formed. Which generalization accurately reflects the effect of the breakup on these new nations?

National and ethnic differences often lead to instability and violence in new nations

Cavour Provokes War Against Austria, Mazzini Established Young Italy, Poles Fail in Revolt Against Russia, these headlines best reflect the concept of

Nationalism

______ made the first challenge to the Ptolemaic conception of the geocentric universe

Nicholas Copernicus

The ___________ is viewed as Isaac Newton's synthesis of the great accomplishments and theories of the Scientific Revolution

Principia Mathematica

Galileo Galilei was brought to trial by the Inquisition because he

Promoted Copernican ideas and had insulted his old patron, Cardinal Barberini who was now Pope Urban VIII

Democracy in modern Japan resulted primarily from

Reforms imposed by the United States after World War II

The deductive method of inquiry was formulated by

Rene Descartes

Which factor is necessary for the development of democratic institutions?

Respect for individual rights

From the seventeenth century on, there existed a fundamental shift in the view of the world by the Western world: to be considered "modern", one now approached the world through

Science

The term heliocentric means

Sun-Centered

Galileo had made improvements on the lens developed by the Dutch for use in

Telescopes

Galileo Galilei formulated the law of inertia, which stated

That rest was not the natural state of objects and an object continues in motion forever unless stopped by an external force

One result of Galileo's' trial was that

The New Science flourished in northwest Europe

Which statement describes a characteristic of the British parliament system today?

The Prime Minister is elected by the majority party in Parliament

The Scientific Revolution was an effect of and influenced by

The Renaissance

The cornerstone of Newton's work was

The law of Universal Gravitation

A constitution? What for? The Koran is the oldest and most efficient constitution in the world." --King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1966) "The form of government of Iran is that of an Islamic Republic."--Article 1, Iranian Constitution (1979) These quotations best support the idea that

The laws of Islam can be used to govern a country

Johannes Kepler eventually took the immense observational data of Brahe and formulated the

The three laws of planetary motion

William Harvey

Was an English physician who was the first to completely describe the systematic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart

In European states, the New Science

Was encouraged in England and other countries through the establishment of royal societies

The code of Hammurabi is an example of

Written rules for legal procedures