Western Civ Ch. 15 – Flashcards
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How did Louis XIV restructure the policy making machine of the French Government?
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1. He personally dominated the actions of his ministers and secretaries 2. Stacking the royal council with loyal followers from the NEW aristocratic families and his ministers were also his followers
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What purpose of the palace of Versailles serve under Louis XIV?
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To distract the nobility and display his grandeur
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What is the Edict of Fontainebleau?
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It revoked edict of nantes, carteled the rights of french protestants, which led to several Huguenots fleeing France
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Which leader wanted to make Russia more like western Europe?
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Peter the Great
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What was experienced during the "Golden Age" of the Dutch Republic during the 17th c?
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Economic prosperity of the United Provinces was ruined by a series of wars late in the century; Saw a temporary weakening of the states general
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Why did the nobles want to depose James II?
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He had a Catholic son
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Who said mankind was animalistic?
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Thomas Hobbs
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Who emphasized a social contract b/w the people and the government?
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John Locke
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Who is El Greco?
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A Greek popular for Baroque mannerism
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Describe Baroque art.
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An attempt to blend the feelings of the religious reformations with classical renaissance art
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What type of art was Peter Paul Rubens famous for?
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Baroque - used violent motion, heavily flushed nudes
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Who is considered to be the greatest figure of Baroque art?
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Bernini
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How are the plays of William Shakespeare characterized?
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A patriotic enthusiasm and pride of the English
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Who is Judith Leyster?
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The first female painter admitted to the guild of St. Luke in Haarlem.
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Who is noted for being the great Protestant painter of the seventeenth century?
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Rembrandt
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Who is Moliere?
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Wrote Tartuffe french playwright louis XIIV paid him satirised french religion and social customs Produced and acted in a series of comedies.
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Following the Thirty Year's War, what country became dominant in Europe?
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France
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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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In the Thirty Year's War, Wallenstein was a general who fought for
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the Emperor Ferdinand
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All of the following were a part of the "military revolution" in the century after 1560 except
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the increased use of militias and volunteer soldiers
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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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The Thirty Year's War
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is considered by most to be part of the larger Bourbon-Habsburg struggle
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Gustavius Adolphus, who led the Lutheran armies in the Thirty Year's War until he was killed at Lutzen, was king of
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Sweden
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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 monarchy
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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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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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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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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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The economic policies of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV controller general of finances
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were based on the economic theory of mercantilism that stressed government regulation of economic affairs to benefit the state
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After 1648, the Holy Roman Empire
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was not really an empire at all but rather a loose association of 300 German states
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The uprising in France that nearly overthrew Louis XIV early in his reign was
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Fronde
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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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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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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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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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Thomas Hobbes
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stated that mankind was animalistic, and needed a strong government to maintain social order.
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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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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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The English Bill of Rights
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laid the foundation for a constitutional monarchy.
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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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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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In 1529 and in 1683, Vienna was seriously threatened by
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the Ottoman Empire
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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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The capital of the Habsburg Empire was in
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Austria
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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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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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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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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 exerted the most influence on Italy by the eighteenth century?
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Austria
