Western Civilization Mid-Term Review

The development of printing in the fifteenth century

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

Organized religions in the seventeenth century

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

The scientist whose work made him the father of Chemistry was

Deism is the belief that

The Rococo artist Antoine Watteau emphasized

Among other things, the Petition of Right

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

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

Issac Newton and John Locke ideas'

High Culture in eighteenth century Europe was characterized by the

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

One of the foremost preoccupations of Italian Renaissance art was

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

Adam Smith believed that government

The Reformation affected the development of education in Europe by

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

Louis XIV used his palace at Versailles to

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

England’s Queen Elizabeth could best be described as a

Benedict de Spinoza

Machiavelli's The Prince advocates that a successful ruler must

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

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

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

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

The French philosophes

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

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

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

The greatest advocate of militant Catholicism was

A cheap and popular drink in eighteenth century England was

Northern Christian humanists used classical and early Christian texts to reform

European intellectual life in the eighteenth century was marked by

The Jews of eighteenth-century Europe

Carnival was celebrated in the weeks leading up to

In his work, Pensees, Pascal wrote that

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

Baroque Art

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

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

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

Voltaire was best known for his criticism of

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

The Council of Trent

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

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

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

Johann Sebastian Bach

The Peasants' War of 1524-1525

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

The Byzantine Empire was finally destroyed in 1453 by the:

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

European music during the later eighteenth century is best associated with

The Encyclopedia

The Baroque-Rococo artistic style of the eighteenth century was

Descartes believed that the world could be understood by

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

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

Absolutism means that

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

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

Renaissance humanists in Italy

The Reformation in England under Henry VIII

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

By the end of the eighteenth century

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

The Renaissance popes did all of the following 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?

Enlightenment thinkers can be understood as secularists because they strongly recommended

The Italian Renaissance was primarily

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

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

Newtons’s world-machine

The recognized capital of the Enlightenment was

Which of the following statements concerning salons is not true?

The painter of Rome’s Sistine Chapel ceiling was

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

The philosophy of Rene Descartes

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

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

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

Copernicus’s major book was titled

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