Final Exam: EUH – Flashcards
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A main cause of immigration from england to its colonies was
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A desire for more religious freedom
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Both protestants and Catholics supported the increasingly powerful governments of their time by
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Participating in early modern "witch craze"
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During the revolt of the Netherlands the Protestant forces William of orange
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Seized control of the forces of northern provinces
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Early modern crisis of religious and political authority led many scholars and authors to
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Explore the problem of uncertainty rationally
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Economic stagnation in most of Europe in the 1600 was caused by
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A slowly growing population and a slow influx of silvers from the americas
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European contact with the Americans ultimately resulted in the decline of the pre-Columbian population there of
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90%
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From an international perspective, the peace of Westphalia marked
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The emergence of France as the most powerful in Europe
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In economic terms, the early colonization of the americas had the biggest impact on
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The spanish
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Montaignes essays, Shakespeare plays and Rembrandts portraits all explore
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The search of meaning for human existence
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More than any other commodity, the slave trade was driven by the European appetite for
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Sugar
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Most French protestants were
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Clavanists
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Most of literature and art from 1550-1660 sought to
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Establish certainty in a rapidly changing world
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One of the factors that contributed to the hostilities between England and Spain were
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The fact that Spain secretly supported the Irish rebellion against Europe in 1565
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Parliamentary forces in the English civil war were primarily made up of
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Small landlords and tradespeople
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Peter Paul Reubans stressed what about the baroque style?
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Extravagance
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The thirty years war began when
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The catholic prince became the ruler of the Protestant territory
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The thirty years war is best described as
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A European wide struggle for political dominance
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The main theme of Montaignes essay was
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A searching skeptism for all human knowledge
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The primary goal of Cardinal Richelieu's government was
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To centralize royal power over France
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The primary problem of the price revolution in the sixteenth century was
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Inflation
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The relatively few number of settlers in the Americans by the Spanish
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Spanish cultural assimilation
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The social and political crisis of the English civil war
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Swelled the ranks of unfree labor in the British colonies of the Americas
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The uncertainties caused by European colonization in the americas and religious and political warfare at home resulted in
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More centralized forms of government
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What became the most commercial empire of the seventeenth century
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The Dutch republic
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A key assistant and partner to Cortes in his adult of the aztecs was
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La malinche
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According to michavelli, the ideal form of government was
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A republic modeled on the roman example
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After confederations their kingdoms together through marriage, Ferdinand and Isabella devoted their energies to
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Creating one of Europes most powerful armies
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Even though he discovered a world unknown to Europeans, Columbus did so in spite if
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Gross miscalculation of earths size
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Beginning in 1440s changes in Portuguese caravels allowed them to
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Sail with two mast and a triangular sail allowing fewer sailors
