Ap European History Test Questions – Flashcards
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"In everything he loved splendor, magnificence, profusion. He turned his taste into a maxim and installed it into his court on all matters
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Louis XIV Saint Simon
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The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 had which of the following results
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put an end to the War of Spanish Succession. It established the Peace of Utrecht
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The episode in French history known as the Fronde was
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A series of civil wars in France occurring in the midst of the Franco- Spanish war - No nobility
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Which of the following was an economic policy of Jean Baptiste Colbert?
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Establishing detailed manufacturing codes to improve the quality of French export goods
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Earlier kings and ministers of France made Absolutism possible for Louis XIV
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by weakening the power of nobles and any other threat to French royalty.
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Louis XIV's finance minister Jean Baptiste Colbert transformed the French economy by employing a new economic system known as
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Mercantilism
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"More than 100,000 potential enemies reside in this realm as long as France harbors Huguenots who perhaps are only waiting for a chance to rebel" The quotation above from a 17th century French leader offers an argument for
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Edict of Fontainebleau
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The primary goal of France in entering the Thirty Year's War was to
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Reduce the power of the Hapsburgs
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During the great witchcraft persecutions of the 16th and 17th centuries those most often tried as witches
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Older women
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The principle reason why Louis XVI built his palace at Versailles was to
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tighten his control over the nobility
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God hath power to create or destroy, make or unmake, at his pleasure; to give life or send death; to judge...and to be judged (by) none...And the like power have kings;..."
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Theory of Divine right.
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Who was the leader of the Puritan army that overthrew the tyrannical Charles I and established the Commonwealth in England?
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Oliver Cromwell
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As a result of the Glorious Revolution and the English Bill of Rights of 1689, government in Great Britain gradually became a Constitutional or limited monarchy- Controlled by the laws of the land
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Controlled by the laws of the land The Glorious Revolution established a constitutional monarchy in Great Britain.
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During the 16th and 17th centuries, monarchs in western Europe sought to
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Guarantee personal liberty of citizens. centralize their own politcal power
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By the Year 1600 strong monarchies had developed in all of the following countries except.
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Poland, Russia, Germany
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Pride's Purge during the English Civil War
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Got rid of Presbyterians and what was left was
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Which of the following was a cause of the English Civil War
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Puritans opposed Charles I taking more power as a monarch
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King Charles I was forced to call Parliament in 1640 in response to
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Bishops' Wars that had bankrupted him.
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England's Glorious Revolution of 1688 was 'glorious' in the sense that it
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the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland) by a union of English Parliamentarians
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Unlike her successor James I, Elizabeth I of England ruled by Working with parliament, putting the state ahead of religion
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putting the state ahead of religion, and working with parliament.
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After the defeat of Charles I in the English Civil War and his execution in 1649, England was governed for ten years by
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Oliver Cromwell
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The Streltsy were
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units of Russian guardsmen from the 16th to the early 18th centuries, armed with firearms
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Peter the Great built his new capital St. Petersburg
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Which was capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years
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Religion supplies the pretext and gold the motive." This statement was a contemporary characterization of:
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Spanish and Portuguese expansion in the New World
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Of the following new foods from the Western Hemisphere, which became most important in diets of the poor in early Modern Europe?
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Corn and potatoes
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The Bill of Rights enacted after the Glorious Revolution in Great Britain did which of the following?
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More rights to Parliament (make laws/levy taxes) and citizens (right to keep arms, have a jury trial, petition the sovereign, not be subject to excessive bail). Led to Constitutional Monarchy.
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The opening of new trade routes was most detrimental to the economy of
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Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Italy (countries that used to control trade).
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Which two countries led in exploration and colonization during the 15th and 16th centuries?
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Portugal and Spain
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A basic cause for the Age of Exploration was
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Not only seeking out the unknown but money was a big factor. They wished to find new and easier routes to China and Asia as a whole making the profit from trade there higher. The search for things of monetary value such as gold also played a big role.
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Westernization in Russia came about largely through
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Peter the Great and his successors
