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Even before the invention of the printing press in the 15th century, what technological change made the translation of classical Greek texts to Latin easier?

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The adoption of paper from Islamic Spain

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Machiavelli's concept of virt'u, of an intuitive leader, was derived in part from the political theories of _________________.

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Aristotle

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Nicolaus Copernicus completed his university education in Italy, where he completed a doctorate in________________.

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Canon Law

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Mathematic theory improved in the sixteenth century when Europeans began to reconsider the dominance of _____________ as the only intellectual paradigm.

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Aristotle

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What New Scientist rediscovered the theories of Archimedes on floating bodies?

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Galileo

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In 1632 Galileo was sentenced to house arrest for his support of Copernicus's heliocentric theory because it was viewed bt the Inquisition as a contradiction of _____________.

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Scripture

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What new branch of mathematics did Newton and Leibniz simultaneously develop?

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Calculus

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In the seventeenth century, the preferred non-alcoholic drink in Western Europe was ___________.

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Coffee

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The salon became a popular place to share ideas of New Science because, unlike univeristies, they allowed ___________ to participate.

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Women

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Blaise Pascal's theories about altitude and air pressure led to what practical application of the vacuum?

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Weather forecasting

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Hobbes speculated that humans in a state of nature would always choose to:

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Wage War

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European population______________in 1550-1750 during a period known as the Little Ice Age.

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Stagnated and was flat

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In the early 1500's, France competed with what other state for control of the Italian city-states?

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Spain

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One sign that states had turned to professional standing armies is that by 1750, most armies_____________.

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Wore uniforms

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One factor causing the Protestant Reformation was the rising of revenue by the church through the indulgence, for _____________.

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Ambitious building projects.

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One of the reasons commoners became more became more attentive to religion in the 15th century was that they had more_______________.

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Printed Materials

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In Several countries in Western Europe, such as France, Spain, and England, popes in the fifteenth century lost the power to ____________.

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Appoint Bishops

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Luther proposed several reforms, including putting _________________ above tradition and canon law.

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the New Testament

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One of the first secular rules to support Luther and to create a Lutheran state was _________.

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the Duke of Saxony

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Francis I of France was particularly hard on Protestants in his kingdom because he was in a competition with Charles V of Spain for________________.

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Influence over the pope

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A central doctrine of Calvin's Protestantism was his belief in____________.

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predestination to heaven or hell.

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Approximately ten percent of France's population in the mid 1500's was Huguenot, who were ______________.

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Calvinists

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What did the Edict of Nantes in 1598, issued by King Henry IV, promise?

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Freedom of religion for French Calvanists

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When Dutch Calvinists revolted in 1565, what did they do to Catholic Churches?

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They stripped them of images and sculpture

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Charles I of England was forced to summon Parliament in 1642 when he needed ________

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Money, since his tax revenues had run out.

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The Thirty Years' War began with religious tensions in________________.

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Bohemia.

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German Lutherans fighting in the Thirty Years' War were aided om 1630 by the intervention of the Lutheran King of Sweden, Gustavus II Adolphus, who formed an alliance with_______________

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Louis XIII of France

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At the end of the Thirty Years' War, who emerged as the dominant power in Europe?

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France

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What aspect of government continued to represent a decentralizing force, even in absolute monarchies such as Louis XIV's France?

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tax collection

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Peter the Great of Russia paid foreign advisors in ___________

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estates

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Who granted the Hohenzollern rulers of Prussia the title of "King" in 1701?

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The Holy Roman Emperor

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