Western Civilzation II
England's Glorious Revolution occurred in
1688
In which year did the Estates General bar entrance to the Third Estate, beginning the French Revolution?
1789
Napoleon staged a coup in
1799
The Catholic Emancipation Act was in:
1829
The Crimean War was in:
1854-6
The Sykes-Picot agreement was signed in_________.
1916
The Spanish Civil War began in
1936
The Battle of Midway occurred in
1942
D-Day was on June 6,
1944
In _______ the Treaty of Maastricht created the European Union.
1993
False
All European countries used a military draft to fill the ranks of their armies in the early modern period
The war in northern Italy was fought between Italy and
Austria
In 1792 France was invaded by
Austria and Prussia.
1535
Calvin published the Institutes of Christian Religion in
Destined for heaven
Calvin's Elect are the members of the church who are _______.
Mantua
Castiglione came from _______________.
The ________ controlled the Congress of Vienna.
Conservatives
conquistadores
Cortes' army of ______________ conquered Mexico.
____________ is the belief in a god who, having created the universe, then plays no role in the affairs of humans.
Deism
In 1992 Rio de Janeiro held an ___________.
Earth Summit
False
Executions for heresy increased greatly under the inquisition.
In 1989, the ____________ ran aground in Prince William Sound.
Exxon Valdez
In the late 1960s Europe's population continued to grow.
F
Protestantism dwindled in developing nations during the Cold War.
F
Nosferatu revises the legend of Hercules.
False
The Balfour Declaration permitted Jewish Settlement in Jordan.
False
The Treaty of Versailles apportioned blame to all European participants.
False
illusions
Francis Bacon identified four problems or________ with the human mind.
True
From the 7th to the 11th century the Islamic world had excelled in science.
1616
In what year did the church first condemn the heliocentric model of the universe?
Saddam Hussein was deeply in debt after his ten-year war with __________.
Iran
The Bolshevik party was led by __________.
Lenin
Richelieu
Louis XIII's chief minister was
False
Luther was content to allow Jews to practice their faith uninhibited.
Robert Oppenheimer directed the ____________ Project.
Manhattan
After James II was dethroned, his daughter ___________ took his place.
Mary
Illuminationism
Mulla Sadra was a proponent of what philosophy?
The war in the Pacific ended when the Americans decided to drop atomic bombs on _______ and _______.
Nagasaki, Hiroshima
Anti-Semitism was particularly vicious in the ______.
Pale of Settlement
The Enlightenment writers called themselves
Philosophes
1498
Portuguese ships reached India in
sexual morality
Protestant countries focused more on legislating _______ than Catholics.
The ________ took the lead in the German Confederation.
Prussians
Edmund Burke's _________ is commonly regarded as one of the foundational texts of conservatism
Reflections of the revoultion in france
True
Sabbatai Zvi died a Muslim.
Natural Laws
Since Descartes, Western science begins with the assumption that everything operates according to a set of __________.
In 1967 Israel launched the _____________.
Six Day War
Which nation did Freeman cite as an example of an "artificial nation"?
Switzerland
The Assad family controlled _______.
Syria
The bat mitzvah was begun in the United States in1922.
T
the peasants
Thanks to new crops from the New World, the diets of which group changed?
Zwingli
The Anabaptists were breakaway followers of _______.
Oliver Cromwell
The English parliamentary forces during the civil war were led by ____________.
of overpopulation, of the influx of New World gold and silver, and immigration from Europe
The Ottoman economy began to stagnate in the 16th century because _______.
False
The Safavid Qizilbash were Sufi mystics.
Peace of Westphalia.
The Thirty Years' War ended with the
1683
The Turks failed to take Vienna in _______, which strengthened Austria.
Medici
The ___________ family ruled Florence.
Thirty Years' War
The ____________ was the first European-wide war.
Holy Roman
The _____________ empire had long controlled the northern Italian city-states.
Humanism
The concern to develop human potential is known as ______________.
True
The cult of classical learning had its origins in monastic life.
tyranny
The idea that true freedom consists of freedom from chaos is an argument for _______________.
Which of the following was NOT true of Fascist states?
They allowed multiple parties to exist in their states.
In Germany 750,000 civilians perished from starvation during the war.
True
Moons of Jupiter
What discovery did Galileo report in the Starry Messenger (1610)?
False
When Humanism took root in the north it did so as French Humanism.
Tomatoes
Which of the following came to Europe from the New World via the Columbian Exchange?
tomatoes
Which of the following came to Europe from the New World via the Columbian Exchange?
universal gravitation
Which theory describes the motion of everything in the universe?
Louis XIV
Who built the palace of Versailles?
Machiavelli
Who wrote The Prince?
Luther
Who wrote the Ninety Five Theses?
True
Women were more commonly executed as witches than men.
Epistemology
___________ is the nature of knowledge itself.
The Fronde
___________ was a rebellion against the French crown in the mid-17th century.
Mercantilism
___________ was a set of economic policies that supported absolutism.
Standing armies
____________ were used to control their own citizens.
Vernacular
_____________ literature began to appear in print during the Renaissance.
The era in which Europe gave up most of its overseas territories is known as _____________.
decolonization
The Polish were united by the Congress of Vienna.
false
The Industrial Revolution developed a new economy based on the use of __________ to produce everyday goods.
machines
Liberalism regards the primary function of government to be the promotion of ________.
personal freedom
Adam Smith developed the concept of free market capitalism, which
promotes supply and demand.
The British Reform Bill of 1832 _______.
reallocated parliamentary seats in industrial areas.
The key element of fundamentalism is _________.
scriptural inerrancy
Pentecostalism takes its name from the descent of _______ on the apostles on Pentecost.
the Holy Spirit
Who was the "sick man of Europe?"
the Ottoman Empire
The National Assembly issued the Declaration of __________.
the Rights of Man and Citizen
In England the aristocracy was more inclined to become involved with commerce.
true
The Netherlands failed to industrialize at all.
true
Until the Industrial Revolution, the word "unemployed" did not exist in English.
true
The Continental System led to a rise in _______ on the Continent.
urbanization
Decolonization began because imperial nations
were broke from the war and Depression.
