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As compared to its experience in the early Middle Ages, Europe in the High Middle Ages was

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More decentralized

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Religion and society were among the subjects

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that scholars reexamined in the Late Middle Ages.

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Otto I's revival of the German Empire

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led to united rule of Germany and Italy.

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The Cluny reform movement sought to

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end royal authority over the clergy

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One of the most important results of the Crusades was that

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trade and cultural exchanges with Asia were encouraged.

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The final reconquest of Spain from the Turks took place in the

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fifteenth century C.E.

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During the Late Middle Ages the economic and political power of the nobility

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Declined due to changing military tactics and demographic shifts

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Two major trade products of medieval France were

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cloth and wine.

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After 1100, European towns were generally governed

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by a class that combined urban nobles and wealthy burghers

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Noteworthy early European universities appeared in

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Bologna and Paris.

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The most common role for women in the European Middle Ages was

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blue-collar" worker

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The Magna Carta is considered the cornerstone of modern English law because it

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set limits on royal power and insured the right of representation to certain groups in society

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The Hundred Years' War

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Fought by the feudal monarchs of England and France

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France suffered from what relative disadvantages during the Hundred Years' War?

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mediocre leaders and less effective weapons

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All of the following were consequences of the Hundred Years' War except

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increased burdens on the English peasantry

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Which of the following was not a contributing cause of the Black Death?

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Pollution of the water supply of the major cities of Italy

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In Europe, the first known cases of the Black Death appeared in

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Italian port cities

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The Black Death resulted in all of the following except

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greater equality between men and women

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Unam Sanctam was a

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statement of papal power issued by Boniface VIII

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The Great Schism

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resulted in rival popes supported by competing alliances of European states

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One of the dominant features of Renaissance thought was a(n)

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study of ancient greek and roman culture

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The dominant family of Renaissance Florence was the

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Medici

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Renaissance thought was deeply concerned with all of the following except

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state-building and political participation

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Machiavelli wrote The Prince in the hope that

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an Italian ruler would emerge from the Medici family

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Ivan III's main contribution to Russian state-building was the

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end of Mongol rule and the unification of northern Russia under the control of Moscow

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Spain unified when these monarchs married

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Ferdinand and Isabella

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For Europe, the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were a period of

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unprecedented territorial expansion

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The European voyages of discovery primarily originated with competition

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for the riches of the spice trade

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China did not continue its voyages of exploration for all of the following reasons except

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the imperial government was intolerant of other religions

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Columbus's voyage of 1492 began a process that

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Changed European and American ecosystems, widened the scope of Spanish religious conversions, and brought Spain great wealth

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Legacies of Spanish rule in the Americas include

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Roman Catholicism

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One of the main reasons Protestant criticisms of the church did not find support in Spain was because

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humanist ideas were incorporated into Catholic practices in Spain

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Johann Gutenberg invented printing with movable type around 1450 in the German city of

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Mainz

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The Protestant faith

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broke up into a number of smaller denominations

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Martin Luther insisted that the only way to salvation was as a result of

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faith alone

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Luther's ninety-five theses

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challenged the practice of selling indulgences

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Martin Luther made separate German translations of the New and the Old Testaments

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in the mid-1520s.

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During the Peasants Revolt, Luther sided with the

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Princes

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The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) was

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a religious order created to help defend Catholicism

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The origins of the Protestant Reformation in England were mainly in

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Henry VIII's battle with the pope over his divorce

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A politique was a

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pragmatist who tended to subordinate theological doctrine to political unity

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The Huguenots were

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French Protestants

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The Thirty Years' War and the treaty that followed resulted in all of the following except

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French division of and control over the duchies of Germany

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In 1600, Calvinism had strong support in all of the following countries except

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Denmark

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In 1600, Lutheranism had strong support in all of the following countries except

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The Netherlands

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Most of the victims of the witch hunts were _________ women

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Older unmarried

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How could witch hunts be said to have served the interest of the clergy?

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The hunts eliminated competition in the practice of "magic."

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The most widely recognized author of the Renaissance was the English poet and playwright

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William Shakespeare

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According to Thomas Hobbes, the basic nature of humans is to

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Enlessly desire powe until death

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According to John Locke, absolute monarchy was

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Inconsistant eith civil society

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