Transcript Ch. 15 Powerpoint Review

The witchcraft trails of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries reflected
1. the abundance and
expendability of women
2. fears of false religions
being brought to Europe
from the Americas
3. a fascination with new
legal practices
4. deep religious
uncertainties caused by the
Protestant Reformation
5. a reaction against the
emergence of this new
form of village culture
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Which region was most devastated by the
Thirty Years’ War?
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France
Sweden
Austria
Russia
Germany
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All of the following were results of the Thirty
Years’ War except
1. All German states were
free to choose their own
religion.
2. France emerged as the
dominant nation.
3. The Danes maintained
neutrality throughout the
conflict.
4. The temporal power of the
pope was reduced.
5. Some areas of Germany
suffered terrible economic
devastation.
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The Peace of Westphalia made it clear that
1. religion and politics were
to be separated
2. Europeans would never get
along
3. Germany would rise
because of the atrocities
Germans suffered during
the war
4. France would not
relinquish territories
gained at Spain’s expense
5. civilians were a justifiable
target during war
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The palace at Versailles was not
1. the major royal residence
of Louis XIV
2. the administrative center
of the French government
3. a symbol of the Sun King’s
wealth and grandeur
4. completed during the reign
of Louis XIII
5. home to the high nobility
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The wars of Louis XIV
1. did not occur until the last
two decades of his reign
2. brought the northern half
of Spain under French
control
3. were typically met by an
alliance of other European
states
4. led to the Sun King being
overthrown by war-weary
nobles
5. greatly expanded the size
of France
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Frederick William built Brandenburg-Prussia
1. out of two inheritances,
one from his mother, one
from his father
2. on a strong army and
support from the nobles
3. from scraps of land that he
conquered during his own
lifetime
4. into the best example of a
theocracy in the eighteenth
century
5. into a functioning
constitutional monarchy
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Peter the Great’s “Europeanization” of Russia
consisted primarily of
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requiring his people to shave
their beards and dress like
Englishmen
establishing a Senate to
debate progressive legislation
importing Western
technocrats and technology
to his domain
giving Russian women equal
political if not social rights to
Russian men
constitutional government
and democratic government
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Peter the Great’s most recognizable
achievement was
1. establishing a
representative government
2. exiling the unwanted
Jewish population
3. creating a port on the
Pacific coast
4. building the city of St.
Petersburg
5. making the Orthodox faith
the official state religion
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At the end of the sixteenth century, _____ had
control over much of the southern Mediterranean.
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Greece
the Ottoman Empire
Italy
Russia
Austria
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The English Bill of Rights of 1689 guaranteed
that
1. only Parliament could raise
taxes and armies
2. every Englishman was free
from unlawful search and
seizure
3. every Englishman could
worship openly and freely
4. only Parliament could
determine the monarch
5. every man had the right to
vote
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The decision by England’s Charles I to follow a course of
“personal rule”
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made him reject the House of
Lords’ nomination for a wife
allowed him to serve as head
of the Church of England
alienated the Puritans of the
Scottish Presbyterian Church
led him to withdraw from
politics and society and lose
his throne
forced him to raise revenues
without calling Parliament
into session
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Thomas Hobbes and John Lock disagreed over
the theory that
1. all men are endowed with
certain unalienable rights
2. kings rule by divine right
3. the only alternative to
social chaos is absolute
monarchy
4. man’s mind is at birth a
tabula rasa
5. man once lived in a state of
nature without
government
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Baroque painters were noted for their attempts at
1. limiting the emotional
reaction individuals had to
art
2. imitating the works of
classical artists
3. mocking the artists of the
Renaissance
4. using dramatic techniques
to arouse emotion
5. producing art with few
dynamic qualities
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The central literary figure of the
Elizabethan era was
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de Vega
Shakespeare
Racine
Moliere
Cervantes
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