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Seventeenth-century European population...

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fluctuated narrowly, constrained by famines and diseases

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Which of the following groups were particularly susceptible to suspicion during Europe's prolonged witchcraft craze?

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Old women

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Gustavus Adolphus, who led the Lutheran armies in the Thirty Years' War until he was killed at Lützen, was king of...?

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Sweden

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In the Thirty Years' War, Wallenstein was a general who fought for...?

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Emperor Ferdinand

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All of the following were part of the "military revolution" in the century after 1560 except Select one: a. the increased use of militias and volunteer soldiers. b. standing armies based upon conscription. c. increased use of the musket and bayonet. d. larger sailing ships, known as "ships of the line." e. the education of officers in military schools.

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a. the increased use of militias and volunteer soldiers.

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Cardinal Richelieu understood that, in Louis XIV's France, the most important roadblock to building a strong monarchy was...

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resistance by the great nobles

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Jacques Boussuet's Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture...

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was the fundamental statement of seventeenth-century divine right monarchy.

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The uprising in France that nearly overthrew Louis XIV early in his reign was the...

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Fronde

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Louis XIV restructured the policy-making machinery of the French government by Select one: a. personally dominating the actions of his ministers and secretaries. b. stacking the royal council with loyal followers from relatively new aristocratic families. c. selecting his ministers from established aristocratic families. d. all of the above e. a and b

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e) a&b

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Louis XIV used his palace at Versailles to...

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dominate the nobility and display his grandeur.

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The War of Spanish Succession ended when Philip V of Spain...

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conceded to a permanent split between the French and Spanish thrones..

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Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau...

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revoked the earlier Edict of Nantes, curtailed the rights of French Protestants, and caused thousands of highly skilled Huguenot to flee the country.

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After 1648, the Holy Roman Empire...

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was not really and empire at all but rather a loose association of 300 German states.

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The capital of the Habsburg Empire was in..

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Austria

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Which of the following exerted the most influence on Italy by the eighteenth century?

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Austria

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Russian society in the seventeenth century...

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was characterized by a highly oppressive system of serfdom.

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Which of the following statements best applies to Peter the Great of Russia?

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His program of Europeanization was predominantly technical and aimed at modernizing the military

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Scandinavia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed...

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Sweden become a second-rate power after the Great Northern War

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Under the liberum veto, an act of the Polish Sejm could be vetoed by..

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any member of the Sejm.

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The "sleeping giant" of Eastern Europe in the first half of the seventeenth century was

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the Ottoman Empire

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The "Golden Age" of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century witnessed...

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the economic prosperity of the United Provinces ruined by series of wars late in the century. & the temporary weakening of the States General.

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The Petition of Right (1628), among other things,

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maintained that the King could pass no new tax without the consent of Parliament.

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Charles I was forced to call the Long Parliament into session in 1640 to deal with...

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a Presbyterian uprising in Scotland

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Under Charles II, Parliament passed the Test Act to...

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stipulate that only Anglicans could hold military and civil offices

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The incident that prompted the nobles to depose James II was...

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the birth of a catholic son

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The English Bill of Rights..

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laid the foundation for a Constitutional Monarchy.

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Thomas Hobbes stated...

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that mankind was animalistic, and needed a strong government to maintain social order

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The artistic movement Mannerism reached its peak with the work of

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El Grecco

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The Baroque painter who used violent motion, heavily fleshed nudes, and dramatic use of light and shadow, and rich sensuous pigments in his paintings was...

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Rembrandt van Rijn

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The greatest figure of Baroque art was...

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Bernini

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The patriotic enthusiasm and pride of the English during the Elizabeth era is best characterized by the

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Plays of Shakespeare

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The first female painter admitted to the Guild of St. Luke in Haarlem and who painted scenes of everyday life was

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Judith Leyster

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The Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn was noted for...

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being the one great Protestant painter of the seventeenth century..

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The French playwright Moliére is noted for all of the following except Select one: a. Tartuffe. b. benefiting from the patronage of Louis XIV. c. satirizing French religious and social customs. d. perfecting neoclassical tragedy. e. producing and acting in a series of comedies.

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d. perfecting neoclassical tragedy.

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By the 1630s and 1640s, with the import of silver from the Americas in decline, Europe faced the challenge of widespread economic inflation. (T or F)

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False

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The witchcraft hysteria primarily targeted women. (T or F)

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True

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The Thirty Years' War has often been called the "last of the religious wars." T or F

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True

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Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, developed the first standing army of conscripts, an army notable for its flexible tactics. T or F

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True

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Versailles was built for Louis XIII. T or F

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FALSO

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Louis XIV advertised himself as the Sun King. T or F

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True

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The Austrian monarchy never became a highly centralized, absolutist state, because...

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it included too many different national groups.

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Influenced by his experiences in Western Europe, upon his return to Russia, Peter the Great ordered that the serfs be emancipated and freed from their boyar lords. T or F

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FALSO

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As a result of the Glorious Revolution, by the beginning of the eighteenth century, Parliament was absolutely supreme and the monarch had become merely a figurehead. T or F

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FALSO

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The great writer of satirical comedies as the court of Louis XIV was Jean-Baptiste Racine. T or F

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FALSO

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The witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuri

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The witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were often directed against old single women

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The Thirty Years' War

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is considered by most to be part of the larger Bourbon-Habsburg struggle

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As a result of the Peace of Westphalia of 1648

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German states were allowed to determine their religion.

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Following the Thirty Years' War, what country became dominant in Europe

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France

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Absolutism means

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ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right.

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As Louis XIII's chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu was most successful in

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strengthening the central role of the monarchy in domestic and foreign polic

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The economic policies of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's controller general of finances

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were based on the economic theory of mercantilism that stressed government regulation

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The chief reason for the wars of Louis XIV was

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his desire to insure the dominance of France and his Bourbon dynasty in all Europe

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The overall practical political purpose of the court of Versailles was to

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exclude the high nobility and royal princes from real power

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Frederick William the Great Elector built Brandenburg-Prussia into a significant European power by

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making the General War Commissariat the bureaucratic machine of his state

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In 1529 and again in 1683, Vienna was seriously threatened by

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Ottoman Empire

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James I of England alienated most of the members of Parliament by

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insisting on his right to govern through Divine Right

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John Locke was responsible for

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emphasizing the social contract between the people and government

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Baroque art

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attempted to blend the feelings of the religiousreformations with classical Renaissance art

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Peter the Great's ambition was to make Russia more like

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western Europe.

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The "Glorious Revolution" in 1688 in England was significant for

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bloodlessly deposing James II in favor of William of Orange

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