Final Exam Review

What was the only European country with a declining population in the nineteenth century?

Who established the first textile factory using water-powered spinning machines in Rhode Island in 1790?

Napoleon's greatest victory was over the Russians and the Austrians in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar.

The very first European scientific society was founded in London.

During the Middle Passage,

Rococo artists celebrated majesty, power, and movement.

Which second-century Greek physician provided the major model for medicine in the late medieval period?

Most French salons were run by

Absolutism means that...

Louis XIV advertised himself as the Sun King.

Denis Diderot was an ardent Christian.

When Moctezuma first encountered the Spanish, he believed they were

Where on the European continent did industrialization begin first?

What group emerged as the most important radical element in French politics at the beginning of the French Revolution?

The Habsburg emperor was

Which group comprised the First Estate in France?

How did Louis XIV use his palace at Versailles?

By 1870, most of the world had begun to industrialize according to the models in western Europe and the United States.

John Locke influenced the 18th century Enlightenment through his theory of knowledge and his concept of the tabula rasa.

Margaret Cavendish was the first woman to join the Royal Society of Science

Edwin Chadwick championed universal suffrage for all adult males.

Where was the first successful permanent English settlement in North America located?

The primary motives for European expansion were “God, glory, and gold.”

What was the encomienda?

What was the most immediate cause of the French Revolution?

Which sea captain made the first direct voyage from Europe to India?

The Thirty Years’ War began when _____ in Bohemia rebelled against Habsburg authority.

The First Estate was made up of the French nobility.

Bach and Handel perfected the ____ musical style.

The author of Observations upon Experimental Philosophy and Grounds of Natural Philosophy was...

How did the French Academy differ from the English Royal Society?

Under the American system, the use of ____ helped reduce costs and increase production.

By the turn of the eighteenth century, more and more people were finding it hard to believe in witchcraft.

The witchcraft hysteria primarily targeted young, married women.

At what time was Carnival celebrated?

Who were the first to be expelled from Japan by Tokugawa Ieyasu?

What existed at the center of the heliocentric conception of the universe?

Which uprising in France nearly overthrew Louis XIV early in his reign?

The Scientific Revolution rapidly overthrew traditional authority.

As a result of the Peace of Westphalia of 1648

Most French philosophes came from the lower orders of society.

The Sephardic Jews were expelled from ____ in the fifteenth century.

The great scientists of the 17th century, such as Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, tried to undermine religion?

According to Montesquieu, there were three basic types of governments: republican, monarchical, and

Which country became dominant in Europe following the Thirty Years' War?

Who was Edwin Chadwick?

The National Convention was dominated by lawyers, professionals, and property owners.

Rococo art emphasized

Except in _, judicial torture remained an important tool of European criminal-justice systems in the eighteenth century.

The Thirty Years' War hit Germany hardest.

High culture in eighteenth-century Europe was characterized by the

Which of these factors contributed to the decline of the Ming dynasty?

It was not until the 1770s that sentiment in Europe began to build against the slave trade.

The 18th c. agricultural revolution in Britain reduced the cost of food, giving the British extra capital

____ religion and growing secularization were important factors in the emergence of the Enlightenment.

Many of the exhibits shown in Britain's Great Exhibition were housed in Parliament, to show Britain's dominance

In 1492, knowledgeable Europeans knew that the world was round.

The Thirty Years' War has often been called the "last of the religious wars."

According to Bacon, science should begin with

What disease caused jaundice, nose and eye bleeding, hallucinations, and hemorrhagic fever?

France became "a nation in arms," making the French armies a significant piece in the development of modern nationalism.

Which Chinese dynasty replaced the Ming in the seventeenth century and came from Manchuria?

Napoleon Bonaparte was born in ____ in 1769.

The Third Estate was composed of all of the following EXCEPT

Mary Wollstonecraft is viewed by many as the founder of European feminism.

What was the West Indies’ most important export?

Mozart wrote his first opera at age

Mazarin tried to carry on the policies of

The Committee of Public Safety's campaign of Terror was directed exclusively against the Catholic clergy and aristocracy

William Harvey performed unethical dissections such as vivisections.

Galileo played a key role in spreading awareness of the heliocentric model of the solar system.

Which statement best describes the French philosophes?

Maria Winkelmann was best known for her work on human anatomy.

Louis XIV described himself as the _____ King.

Working-class British children in the 19th c. were treated well by their employers and paid sufficient wages to ensure

What was Antoine Lavoisier's scientific accomplishment?

Robert Boyle conducted important research into the nature of gases.

Newton believed that God did was not present in the physical universe.

In the early 18th century, new methods of smelting ____ were devised using coke that was made by slowly burning coal.

Descartes asserted that he would accept only those things that the Bible said were true.

What was Diderot's most famous contribution to the Enlightenment's battle against religious fanaticism and intolerance?

What is the main idea of deism?

Despite his place in the history of modern science, Isaac Newton remained interested in aspects of the occult world.

Supporters of polygenesis believed that

By 1750, the population of British North America had reached about 1.5 million.

Who was the Italian merchant whose tales of the court of Kublai Khan were popular in medieval Europe?

How did Louis XVI respond to the formation of the National Assembly?

Why did Hernan Cortés choose Malinche to be his guide throughout Mexico?

What is an accurate characterization of the reign of Louis XIV?