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
