Unit 6 Test
Which of the following economic thinkers would most likely agree with Bentham's argument?
Adam Smith
Other European states reacted to the Portuguese establishment of a trading-post empire by?
Developing rival colonies and overseas trading networks
By the 1800s, the method of empirical reasoning reflected in the passage had undergone which of the following changes?
It had become a core principle of European culture
The conflict between the inductive and deductive methods can most clearly be seen in the differences between
Newton and Descartes
The ability of someone of Herberle's social status in seventeenth-century Germany to read and write was most likely the result of which of the following?
Protestant reformation's emphasis on an individual study of the Bible
The earliest scientists were reacting against the Aristotelian method of studying the natural world. What did the Aristotelian method NOT include?
The collection and analysis of a wide range of information
The Portuguese slave trade described in the passage led most directly to which of the following?
The establishment of a European - dominated system of plantation agriculture
The events referred to in the song led most directly to which of the following?
The formalization of a constitutional monarchy in France
Bentham's argument demonstrates which of the following processes at work in eighteenth-century Europe?
The loosening of traditional moral restrictions on economic activity
Which of the following events marked the effect end of Spain's ability to act as a champion of Catholicism in Europe?
The outcome of the Thirty Years' War
The image demonstrates which of the following regarding scientific advances in early modern Europe?
They used information obtained through dissection to reconceptualize the body as an integrated system
The long-term economic effect in Europe of the establishment of trading networks and colonies such as the one described in the passage was
a shift in the center of economic power from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic states
The poissardes and other participants in the events described in the song were motivated most strongly by which of the following?
An economic crisis brought about by food savings
The Dutch tulip-bulb 1636-1637 described in the excerpt was based primarily upon which of the following conditions?
An economically successful middle class that could afford to speculate
The method of inquiry elucidated by Francis Bacon in the passage is known as
Empiricism
Bentham's arguments concerning personal liberty reflect most closely the principles of the
Enlightenment
Descartes' understanding of the human body, as shown in the image, is most similar to which of the following?
Newton's notion of a mechanistic universe
The participation of women such as the poissardes led to which of the following during the early phases of the French Revolution?
Temporary improvements in women's legal status
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Netherlands was controlled by the Spanish branch of which powerful dynasty?
The Habsburgs
The licensing of trade described in the passage is an example of which of the following state policies?
The implementation of mercantilism to promote
The conflict that Herberle describes in his chronicle resulted in which of the following?
Weakening of the Holy Roman Empire in the strengthening of smaller sovereign states within its boundaries
The French government issued the decree primarily in response to?
domestic unrest and foreign aggression against radical Revolutionary government
Bentham's argument in the passage is best explained in the context of the
increasing use of credit for complex financial transactions
Countries in the coalitions that opposed Revolutionary and napoleonic France were most eager to adopt which provision of the decree?
most eager to adopt the creation of nationally based mass conscript armies
In subsequent years, the French government used the institutions created by the decree to?
start nationalist uprisings in countries outside of France
