AP Euro Chpt 18 Primer Questions

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The expansion of the "division of labor" and of "mass production" through the development of standard parts and manufacturing processes were simulated by ...

Factory system

Which of the following would most likely oppose laissez-faire policies in 19th century Europe:

a socialist

The Industrial Revolution created two new social classes:

capitalists and the proletariat

The text of Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia was centered primarily on

technology

Diderot's collaborator in writing the encyclopedia was...

D'Alembert

Which nation dominated overseas colonization in the 16th century?

Spain

By 1800, the Industrial Revolution had the greatest impact on...

Sweden

A number of technological advances through the 18th century made possible the large-scale production of which of the following?

Textiles

Which of the following best describes the open-field system of the Middle Ages?

The land was divided into long, narrow strips that were not enclosed by fences or hedges.

Which was NOT one of the results of the opening of the Atlantic to commerce with Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries...

The nobility increased its wealth

Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, armies affected population growth in all of the following ways except

a large number of individuals were killed on the battlefield

In the eighteenth century, the advocates for agricultural innovation argued that

landholdings and common lands needed to be consolidated and enclosed in order to farm more efficiently

Mercantilism, the prevailing economic theory of the 17th century Europe was based on all of the following ideas EXCEPT?

that government should not regulate or interfere with the nation's economy

An immediate result of the commercial revolution that occurred with the increased productivity stimulated by the precious metals coming from the Americas was...

the rise of capitalism

The Price Revolution of the 16th century was caused by:

the wars of religion caused by the Reformation

In the eighteenth century, the biggest increase in British foreign trade was with:

the British colonial empire

The basic idea of Mercantilism was:

the main entrance of a favorable trade in order to increase the country's holdings in gold and silver

The leadership of the Dutch people in farming methodology can be attributed primarily to

the necessity to provide for a densely populated country

The second Enclosure Movement, occurring in England in the 18th century was designed to:

to increase and consolidate crop lands

Between 1650 and 1790, a crucial component of the global economy was established when European nations developed:

the Atlantic economy

Which of the following best describes the role of women in guilds in the eighteenth century?

Both legal and illegal work in guilds became more accessible to women

The English Navigation Acts mandated that all English imports and exports be transported on English ships, and they also

gave British merchants a virtual monopoly on trade with British colonies

"There is no place for industry... no arts; no letters; no society; and which is the worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." This quotation from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651) describes the concept known as...

state of nature

All of the following characteristics of the Industrial Revolution (1780-1830) EXCEPT?

that it took place first in France

Enclosures were required:

to permit scientific farming


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