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Chapter 15 - AP Euro (Early Modern Nations)
Chapter 15 - AP Euro (Early Modern Nations)
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1
Louis XIV used his palace at Versailles to...
provide a spiritual sanctuary from a troubled world.
dominate the nobility and display his grandeur.
cultivate luxury crops and enhance royal revenue.
pursue his interest in scientific experimentation.
2
After the conclusion of the Thirty Years' War in 1648, the Holy Roman Empire...
became one of the most powerful and centralized monarchies.
was dominated by Brandenburg-Prussia.
became divided into three great warring states.
became a loose association of 300 German states.
3
Which of the following exerted the most influence on Italy by the eighteenth century?
Austria
France
Spain
England
4
As a result of the Peace of Westphalia of 1648...
the German population was to be converted to Catholicism.
German states were allowed to determine their religion.
the Holy Roman Empire was dismembered.
German states can choose their religions (except Calvinism).
5
The overall practical political purpose of the court of Versailles was to...
reduce the independence of high nobility and royal princes.
act as a reception hall for state affairs.
give Louis XIV a life of privacy away from spies.
serve as Louis XIV's residence from which to survey Paris.
6
Thomas Hobbes...
was a firm believer in democracy.
stated humans were animalistic and needed strong government.
said that the best form of government was a theocracy.
felt that humans were suited best to be without government.
7
Peter the Great's ambition was to make Russia more like...
Eastern Europe.
its former self.
Western Europe.
the Ottoman Empire.
8
Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau...
revoked the earlier Edict of Nantes.
moved the Estates General from Paris to Fontainebleau.
created new ranks of intendants to govern regions of France.
established new standards of court etiquette.
9
Russian society in the seventeenth century...
saw the rise of the merchant class to power.
witnessed religious reforms in the Russian Orthodox church.
was characterized by a highly oppressive system of serfdom.
witnessed the reign of Ivan the Terrible.
10
The economic policies of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's controller general of finances...
used accounting practices to take tax burden off peasants.
can best be described as capitalist.
were based on the economic theory of mercantilism.
were noted for their innovation and originality.
11
James I of England alienated most of the members of Parliament by...
lavishly spending money on the English army.
insisting on his right to govern through divine right.
persecuting Puritans.
encouraging an alliance with Spain.
12
In the seventeenth century the prominence of the Dutch Republic as a great power...
was a result of the ejection of the House of Orange.
came to an abrupt end with a defeat by Spain.
stemmed from its domination of Mediterranean trade.
was supported by economic prosperity.
13
Baroque art...
was a rejection of neo-classicism.
was a revolt against the ideals of the Italian Renaissance.
was similar to the French Impressionists of a later period.
attempted to blend the Reformation with Renaissance art.
14
Baroque painter who used violent motion and dramatic use of light/shadow in his paintings was..
Peter Paul Rubens.
Artemisia Gentileschi.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Rembrandt van Rijn.
15
Most of the fighting during the Thirty Years' War took place in...
France.
Sweden.
Germanic lands.
Spain.
16
In 1529 and again in 1683, Vienna was seriously threatened by...
Russia.
the Ottoman Empire.
Austria.
Prussia.
17
Absolutism means that...
real power must be religious and follow the church.
all power rests in the hands of a king through divine right.
ultimate rule by a secular dictator.
male citizens have an the right to participate in politics.
18
Which of the following statements best applies to Peter the Great of Russia?
His program of Europeanization was aimed at modernization.
He stripped away all previous social gains for women.
His respect for Western monarchs increased legislative power
He rejected Westernization in favor of Orthodoxy.
19
The chief reason for the wars of Louis XIV was...
his desire to insure the dominance of France in all Europe.
to destroy the commercial superiority of the Dutch.
to gain ports on the Adriatic Sea.
spread Catholicism throughout all of Europe.
20
The Baroque artist who completed Saint Peter's Basilica and the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa was...
Rembrandt van Rijn.
Peter Paul Rubens.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Artemisia Gentileschi.
21
Cardinal Richelieu understood the most important roadblock to building a strong monarchy was...
armed uprisings by workers in Paris.
resistance by the great nobles.
the rising cost of warfare.
witchcraft.
22
John Locke was responsible for...
the Instrument of Government.
authoring Leviathan.
a political work called "Two Treatises of Government."
writing the Petition of Right.
23
The incident that prompted the nobles to depose James II was...
the birth of a son to his second wife, a Catholic.
his marriage to the Duchess of Orange.
his defeat in battle against the bastard son of Charles II.
economic collapse from trade disruptions with the colonies.
24
Following the Thirty Years' War, what country became dominant in Europe?
Spain
France
Germany
England
25
Jacques Bossuet's Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture...
followed the 17th century idea of the divine-right monarchy.
claimed a king's power was under the law of God.
rejected as ungodly Louis XIV's system of absolute rule.
justified a "holy republic."
26
The English Bill of Rights...
resolved all of England's 17th century religious questions.
confirmed the king's right to raise standing armies.
laid the foundation for a constitutional monarchy.
reaffirmed the divine-right theory of kingship.
27
After eleven years of rule, Charles I was forced to call parliament into session in 1640...
because he wished to go to war with France.
to legalize Presbyterianism in England.
to ratify a peace treaty with the Irish.
because he couldn't end a Scottish rebellion against England
28
Patriotic enthusiasm and pride of English during the Elizabethan era is characterized by the...
Glorious Revolution.
New Model Army.
philosophy of John Locke.
plays of William Shakespeare.
29
The "Glorious Revolution" in 1688 in England was significant for...
returning England to a Catholic commonwealth.
bloodlessly deposing James II in favor of William of Orange.
restoring Charles II and the Stuart dynasty to power.
the abolishment of the monarchy in favor of a republic.
30
The Fronde, an uprising in France that nearly overthrew Louis XIV, was a revolt of the French..
urban workers.
all of these.
clergy.
nobility.
