Western Civilization Mid-Term Review

Benedict de Spinoza

Copernicus’s major book was titled

Carnival was celebrated in the weeks leading up to

European intellectual life in the eighteenth century was marked by

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

The Council of Trent

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

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

The Rococo artist Antoine Watteau emphasized

The Italian Renaissance was primarily

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

High Culture in eighteenth century Europe was characterized by the

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

Deism is the belief that

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

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

The painter of Rome’s Sistine Chapel ceiling was

Machiavelli's The Prince advocates that a successful ruler must

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

Renaissance humanists in Italy

Which of the following statements concerning salons is not true?

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

England’s Queen Elizabeth could best be described as a

The French philosophes

Louis XIV used his palace at Versailles to

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

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

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

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

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

Newtons’s world-machine

The greatest advocate of militant Catholicism was

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

European music during the later eighteenth century is best associated with

One of the foremost preoccupations of Italian Renaissance art was

Issac Newton and John Locke ideas'

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

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

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

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

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

The development of printing in the fifteenth century

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

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

Organized religions in the seventeenth century

A cheap and popular drink in eighteenth century England was

The Reformation in England under Henry VIII

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

The Peasants' War of 1524-1525

Adam Smith believed that government

Voltaire was best known for his criticism of

The philosophy of Rene Descartes

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

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

Northern Christian humanists used classical and early Christian texts to reform

The Jews of eighteenth-century Europe

Baroque Art

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

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

The Reformation affected the development of education in Europe by

The Renaissance popes did all of the following except

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

Enlightenment thinkers can be understood as secularists because they strongly recommended

The scientist whose work made him the father of Chemistry was

Absolutism means that

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

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

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

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

The Encyclopedia

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

The Byzantine Empire was finally destroyed in 1453 by the:

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

Johann Sebastian Bach

The recognized capital of the Enlightenment was

The Baroque-Rococo artistic style of the eighteenth century was

Descartes believed that the world could be understood by

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

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

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

Among other things, the Petition of Right

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

In his work, Pensees, Pascal wrote that

By the end of the eighteenth century

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

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