Western Civilization Mid-Term Review

The philosophy of Rene Descartes

The eighteenth-century musicial composition that immediately appealed to everyone was

The Encyclopedia

Luther's break with the church (1517) was prompted by

Reading and publishing in the eighteenth century was aided and characterized by

A cheap and popular drink in eighteenth century England was

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

European intellectual life in the eighteenth century was marked by

The Italian Renaissance was primarily

Enlightenment thinkers can be understood as secularists because they strongly recommended

The Baroque-Rococo artistic style of the eighteenth century was

The “Glorious Revolution” in 1688 in England was significant for

The Reformation abolished all of the following from the lives of Europe’s Protestants except

Which of the following are among the chief characteristics of John Calvin’s reform movement?

The development of printing in the fifteenth century

The greatest advocate of militant Catholicism was

Luther's personal religious crisis came to a head over his growing belief that

Eighteenth-century writers, especially in England, used this new form of literary expression.

Newtons’s world-machine

The witchcraft hysteria began to subside for all of the following reasons except

The overall effect of the Scientific Revolution on the querelles des femmes was to generate

Which of the following is not true of Northern Renaissance artists?

Science became an intergral part of Western culture in the eighteenth century because

Descartes believed that the world could be understood by

The Reformation in England under Henry VIII

The Rococo artist Antoine Watteau emphasized

The family of merchants and bankers who dominated Florence during the Renaissance was the

One of the foremost preoccupations of Italian Renaissance art was

After the conclusion of the Thirty Years’ War in 1648, the Holy Roman Empire

Carnival was celebrated in the weeks leading up to

Renaissance humanists in Italy

Issac Newton and John Locke ideas'

Deism is the belief that

Cosmological views of the Middle Ages held that ________was the center of the universe?

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

For Luther, the source of truth and the only reliable path of faith, besides justification, was

In his work, Pensees, Pascal wrote that

Which of the following is not true of the ideas of Copernicus?

The belief in natural laws underlying all areas of human life led to

Most of the fighting during the Thirty Years’ War took place in

Which comment best summarizes the impact of the Scientific Revolution on Western Civilization?

The first European to make sysematic observations of the heavens by telescope was

According to Rousseau, the source of inequality and the chief cause of crimes was

England’s Queen Elizabeth could best be described as a

Baroque Art

Gustavus Adolphus, who led the Lutheran armies in the Thirty Years’ War, was king of

Who created three laws of planetary motion that helped disprove the Ptolemaic system?

The philosopher who proclaimed the motto of the Enlightenment as “Dare to Know!” was

The immediate reaction of the clerics to th theories of Copernicus was

The painter of Rome’s Sistine Chapel ceiling was

Louis XIV used his palace at Versailles to

The Byzantine Empire was finally destroyed in 1453 by the:

Which of the following statements best describes marriage in Renaissance Italy?

The Jews of eighteenth-century Europe

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

Organized religions in the seventeenth century

Which of the following statements concerning salons is not true?

Adam Smith believed that government

According to The Social Contract, the “general will” was

The French philosophes

Machiavelli's The Prince advocates that a successful ruler must

The Peasants' War of 1524-1525

By the end of the eighteenth century

European music during the later eighteenth century is best associated with

Where did some Protestant churchgoers chose new religious movements during the Enlightenment?

In eighteenth-century Europe, churches, both Catholic and Protestant,

High Culture in eighteenth century Europe was characterized by the

The Council of Trent

Among other things, the Petition of Right

Benedict de Spinoza

The recognized capital of the Enlightenment was

Absolutism means that

The strongest statement and vindication of women’s rights during the Enlightenment was made by

Which of the following best characterizes the popular religion on the eve of the Reformation?

The scientist whose work made him the father of Chemistry was

The Renaissance popes did all of the following except

Copernicus’s major book was titled

In the seventeenth century the prominence of the Dutch Republic as a great power

Northern Christian humanists used classical and early Christian texts to reform

The wealth of the northern Italian cities that funded the Renaissance was gained mostly from

The Renaissance figure in the following list who was not a leading painter was

Which of the following was a means by which Luther's ideas were spread?

William Harvey’s On the Motion of the Heart and Blood refuted the ideas of

Johann Sebastian Bach

Voltaire was best known for his criticism of

The Reformation affected the development of education in Europe by