Chapter 15 Reading Quiz Review AP EURO

Question 1

Agricultural transformations that began in the 18th century western Europe

Accepted Answer

agricultural revolution

Question 2

Empress of Austria who presented herself as a good mother to both her 16 children & her nation

Accepted Answer

Maria Theresa

Question 3

Style of art developed from baroque, emphasized elaborate designs to produce a delicate effect

Accepted Answer

rococo

Question 4

Russian tsarina who corresponded with French philosophes regarding Enlightenment ideals

Accepted Answer

Catherine the Great

Question 5

Combining separate parcels of farmland & enclosing them with fences to create large farms

Accepted Answer

enclosures

Question 6

Ruler of Prussia who avoided wars, promoted a strong economy

Accepted Answer

Fredrick William I

Question 7

An educational travel taken by the wealthy to certain cities & sites

Accepted Answer

grand tour

Question 8

A French court of law during the Old Regime

Accepted Answer

parlements

Question 9

German baroque composer

Accepted Answer

Johann Sebastian Bach

Question 10

18th century Protestant movement stressing an emotional commitment to religion

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pietism

Question 11

Emphasis on emotion and nature forwarded by several European artists and authors

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cult of sensibility

Question 12

Rule by a strong, "enlightened" ruler applying Enlightenment ideas to government

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enlightened absolutism

Question 13

Considered himself a leading enlightened monarch & commissioned propaganda images of himself

Accepted Answer

Joseph II

Question 14

Distribution of power among states, or the policy of creating alliances to control states

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balance of power

Question 15

Rococo artist who painted idealized images of artistocrats

Accepted Answer

Antoine Watteau

Question 16

Leader of Prussia who declared himself to be "the first servant of the state"

Accepted Answer

Fredrick the Great

Question 17

Handicraft manufacturing organized by merchants & performed by rural people in their cottages

Accepted Answer

cottage industry

Question 18

The long sea voyage between the African coast & the Americas endured by newly captured slaves

Accepted Answer

Middle Passage

Question 19

Survivor of the Middle Passage who survived, gained freedom, & wrote his experience as a slave

Accepted Answer

Olaudah Equiano

Question 20

Austrian composer who wrote his first piece of music at the age of 5

Accepted Answer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Questions 20