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Both Christian Humanism and Renaissance thought:
Upheld rational and classical
As part of their goals, the Christian humanists wanted to
Make sure early translations of literature were correct
The fate of Erasmus was that:
Alienated both Catholics and Christians
In his Essays, Montaigne viewed he world and human nature
With some hope for survival, but his skepticism prevented him from having too much faith
Shakespeare's reputation is greatest for which literary genre?
Sonnet of tragedy
How did the Protestant Reformation affect painting and sculpture?
The zealous destroyed some works of art
Reformation leaders drew inspiration from the:
Struggling early
The one event that upset Luther and ultimately launched the Protestant Reformation was the:
Selling of indulgences
Luther attacked the sale of indulgences in his:
95 thesis
In his search for answers to his sense of sin, Luther finally found the solution through the:
Biblical text
When protestants and catholics failed to resolve their differences, they?
turn to warfare
What type of song was most expressive of late-sixteenth century music?
Mad regal
One of the ways in which early modern Europe took shape in the sixteenth century was that Europeans came into closer contact with the rest of the world:
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During the Baroque period Europe was:
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The term baroque probably derives from the Portuguese word barocco meaning:
Irregular pearl
Louis XIV's economic policy was called:
Mercantilism
Which state briefly became a republic (called the Commonwealth) in the mid-seventeenth century?
England
By 1715 the principle that government should rest on the consent of the governed was successfully established in:
England
Warfare in the seventeenth century helped establish which diplomatic principle?
Balance of power
The Florid Baroque:
Emotionalism
The Classical Baroque:
Absolutist
The Restrained Baroque was:
Keeping with Protestant values
Caravaggio's painting style is characterized by:
Chiaroscuro
Ruben's paintings are known for their:
Ripe sensuality
The Netherlands in the seventeenth century:
Domination by the sober values
The Dutch painter Vermeer specialized in:
Domestic scenes of middle class life
The inspiration for the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, was the dome of:
St Peters
The zenith of Baroque drama was reached:
Louis the 14th
Two late Baroque composes who flourished after 1715 were:
Bach and Handel
Which of the following was an important legacy of the Baroque age?
All of the above
The "crisis of conscience" that affected some European thinkers in the late seventeenth century meant that:
Traditional to modern values
Aristotelian physics and astronomy were transmitted to the West through:
Roman and Islamic culture
A central characteristic of medieval science was:
It identified.... unmoved remover
In the Middle Ages, Aristotle's science began to be undermined by the:
The application and spread of inductive reasoning
Which is a correct statement about the Scientific Revolution?
Early modern science based on medieval thinkers
Neo-Platonism affected the rise of modern science by emphasizing the power of mathematics:
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The central issue between geocentrism and heliocentrism was:
A simpler system
Copernicus's explanation of the universe can be described as a:
Revival of ancient Greek
A consequence of Kepler's scientific research was that:
Sun centered--mathematics
Galileo's important discoveries were influenced by his:
Use of the telescope
Galileo's celestial observations proved that:
Jupiter has moons
Besides astronomical research, Galileo also contributed to the:
Theory of motion
Regarding Galileo's astronomical writings, the Catholic Church:
Arrested and tortured
Newton's outstanding contribution to the Scientific Revolution was the mathematical basis for the:
Laws of gravity
Robert Boyle made this contribution to modern chemistry:
Separated chemistry from other areas
Marcello Malpighi's contribution to the study of the human body and circulation was:
Capillaries
The scientific work if Rene Descartes resulted in the development of:
Analytical geometry
Descartes in his search for the truth:
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This thinker questioned the benefits of the Scientific Revolution:
Pascal
The seventeenth century witnessed the:
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A major source of the seventeenth-century political thought was the:
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Bishop Bossuet's arguments for the divine right of kings rested on:
God gave men the right to lead
Hobbes based on the Leviathan on the assumption that:
Fear of death, quest for power
Hobbe's legacy to modern political thought was a theory of:
Absolutism
Locke argued that the social contract was:
Retain their sovereignty
When Locke argued that the mind at birth is a tabula rasa, he meant that the mind is:
A blank slate--empty and deviod of ideas
Both Hobbes and Locke agreed that the basis of government should be a(n):
Social contract
One of the major contributions that Fontenelle made was to:
Explain to an educated public
Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary can be described as:
Encyclopedic work arranged in systematic form
Enlightenment thinking favored:
Scientific methodology
The Enlightenment was essentially produced in:
Paris, France
Deism was based on:
Newtons theory of the universe
A central tenet of Deism is that:
God set the laws of nature in motion and didn't interrupt
The Encyclopedic movement was:
Monument project
Another name for laissez-faire economics were:
Free trade
The originators of laissez-faire economics were:
physicrats
French women contributed to the Enlightenment mainly through:
Presiding over salons
This state, as a limited monarchy, became the ideal model for many philosophies:
Great Britain
The outstanding example of enlightened despotism in the Age of Reason was:
Austria
The originator of the Rococo style in painting was:
Hargoth
This painter's works were famous for their unabashed sexuality:
Bousche
A splendid example of a Rococo interior is the:
Salon de Princessa
One of the origins of the Neoclassical style was the archeological excavations at Pompeii:
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Which painting style was established by Jacques-Louis David:
Neoclassicism
Neoclassical architecture relied on the ideals of:
Simplicity, proportion
Montesquieu's most enduring idea in the Spirit of the Laws is that:
Separation of powers
Voltaire's chief aim in Candide was to satirize the:
Philosophy or optimism
English Neoclassical writers and their readers shared these values:
Good taste in moral and religious values
What new literary form was developed in the Age of Reason:
Novel
The music of Couperin is a perfect counterpart to the:
Wato
Which of the following was a characteristic of Classical music?
all of the above
The period between 1760 and 1830 can be described as a time when:
Middle class began to win liberties from aristocracies
The Industrial Revolution began in England because:
Source of raw materials
Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations:
emphasize self interest
Malthus's "law" of population held that:
growth of population would lead to destruction
Ricardo's "iron law of wages" held that wages for workers:
always hovered around subsistence level
The economic conclusions reached by Malthus and Ricardo:
middle class workers deserved what they got
by 1830 Europe can be described as a continent that:
divided into two political parties (liberal and conservative)
One immediate outcome of the American Revolution was that:
became the most democratic government since Athens
After the American Revolution, the new nation's leaders realized their democratic goals by:
written constitution
One of Napoleon's major domestic reforms was a
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One major change in Europe between 1789 and 1815 was the:
influence of reform
France's revolutionary leaders favored Neoclassicism because:
morally uplifting
Who introduced the Neoclassical style in architecture to the United States?
Thomas Jefferson
The country that could best claim to be the original home of Romanticism was:
Germany
The Strum und Drang movement:
none of the above
English literary Romanticism was launched by the writings of:
Wadsworth & ?
A novel that exemplifies the Romantic reaction against Enlightenment rationalism is:
Frankenstein
Hegel's ideas influenced which of the following groups:
Borrowed concept & dialect
Which events of the period 1760-1830 left a lasting stamp on the modern world?
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