Changes in Europe V

Question 1

What country did the Spanish Armada intend to invade?

Accepted Answer

England

Question 2

What key document did William & Mary accept along with the throne of England in 1689?

Accepted Answer

Bill of Rights

Question 3

What country emerged from the Seven Years' War as the greatest colonial power?

Accepted Answer

Britain

Question 4

How did the Peace of Westphalia impact the Holy Roman Empire?

Accepted Answer

ALL of these are correct

Question 5

A political system in which a ruler holds total power.

Accepted Answer

Absolute monarchy

Question 6

Queen of England 1558-1603, known for her moderate solutions to religion & foreign policy.

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth I

Question 7

"An 18th century philosophical movement of intellectuals” based on the Scientific Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Enlightenment

Question 8

At Versailles, what did King Louis XIV use to divert the nobles' energies & control them?

Accepted Answer

A complicated system of etiquette.

Question 9

These were elegant drawing rooms where thinkers met to share Enlightenment ideas.

Accepted Answer

Salons

Question 10

The idea that Earth is at the center of the universe is called a _______ system.

Accepted Answer

Geocentric

Question 11

What system did Copernicus believe, with the sun at the center?

Accepted Answer

Heliocentric system

Question 12

Who were the ones most accused of witchcraft in 1600’s Europe?

Accepted Answer

Women, Common people, Elderly

Question 13

What was the most important institution in the Prussian state?

Accepted Answer

The army

Question 14

Who wrote that government should be all-powerful & absolute, like a Leviathan?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Hobbes

Question 15

What team was the American League baseball champion this year?

Accepted Answer

Cleveland Indians

Question 16

He was a French writer who criticized Christianity & advocated deism (clockmaker god).

Accepted Answer

Voltaire

Question 17

Who wrote that people are born with a tabula rasa, completely shaped by their experiences?

Accepted Answer

John Locke

Question 18

Who was a 2nd-century Greek astronomer who believed the EARTH was the center of the universe?

Accepted Answer

Ptolemy

Question 19

Italian scientist who used a telescope to discover evidence for heliocentrism, "heretic"

Accepted Answer

Galileo

Question 20

What important invention of the Renaissance helped to spread new Enlightenment ideas?

Accepted Answer

Printing Press

Question 21

After the Thirty Years' War, what 2 states emerged as great powers in the 17th-18th centuries?

Accepted Answer

Prussia & Austria

Questions 21