The Western Heritage, Review Chp 13

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T/F Under Louis XIV, the rising central monarchy exercised direct control over the entire nation, at all levels.

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False

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M.C. At a time when other European governments were involved in their own internal religious conflicts, the Netherlands was......

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A haven of religious toleration in Europe.

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The Dutch economic prosperity of the seventeenth century was made possible by all of the following EXCEPT

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advanced industry.

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The monarchies that achieved absolute rule were those that built an independent and secure

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financial base.

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The rising cost of __________ was an important reason European monarchs in the second half of the sixteenth century started needing more money.

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warfare

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At this time(16-17th century), the British Parliament met

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whenever the king called it.

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In the 1620s, a group of Protestant dissenters, feeling reformation would never go far enough in England, left the country and founded a new colony in __________.

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Massachusetts, North America

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In 1603, __________, the son of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, succeeded the childless Elizabeth to the throne of England.

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James VI

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English Protestants suspected James I of pro-Catholic sympathies for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

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James I's visit to see Pope Gregory XV in Rome in 1622.

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Parliament emerged victorious from the English Civil War because

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of the Scottish alliance and Cromwell's military reforms.

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The Clarendon Code was a series of laws which

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excluded Roman Catholics, Presbyterians and Independents from English political life.

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In an attempt to unite the English people behind the war in Holland, and as a sign of good faith to Louis XIV, Charles II issued the __________ in 1672.

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Declaration of Indulgence

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Parliament invited William of Orange to invade England to preserve its "traditional liberties," meaning

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the Anglican church and parliamentary government.

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Serving under the first Hanoverian king of England, George I, Sir Robert Walpole is considered England's first ______.

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prime minister

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By the eighteenth century, the factors limiting the power of the British monarch — many of which did not trouble other European rulers — included all of the following EXCEPT

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a highly educated populace.

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An important source of aristocratic authority in France was the regional judicial bodies called

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parlements.

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T/F When completed, the palace at Versailles was the largest manmade structure in Europe.

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False

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One of the theoretical underpinnings of Louis XIV's absolutism was the concept of "divine right of kings," articulated most clearly by political theorist Bishop Jacques-Bénigne __________ .

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Bossuet

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With its powerful army and large treasury, the main foreign policy goal of France under Louis XIV, in the authors' view, was to

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secure its international boundaries against external threats.

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Persecution of French Protestants in the wake of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes included all of the following EXCEPT

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taking away the children of unrepentent Protestants.

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The revocation of the Edict of Nantes was a mistake because

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it inflamed anti-French sentiment among Protestants across Europe.

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Despite its spectacular political failure in the rest of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the king of __________ led an army to rescue Vienna from a Turkish siege in 1683.

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Poland

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T/F The Hapsburgs managed to hold together their diverse and far-flung empire through the common bond of Catholicism.

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False

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Charles VI tried to ensure the future unity of the disparate Habsburg lands through a legal instrument called the __________.

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Pragmatic Sanction

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______ priorities dominated Prussian government and society more than in any other European state.

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Military

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The general recognition in Europe of the unity of the Habsburg lands was violated in 1740 when ______ of Prussia invaded Silesia, setting in motion over a century of Austrian-Prussian rivalry.

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Frederick II

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For almost half of Peter the Great's 43-year reign, Russia was at war with

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Sweden.

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Peter the Great took all of the following steps to modernize the Russian state and make it a player in Europe EXCEPT

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allying himself with the power and wealth of the Russian Orthodox Church and its patriarch.

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The Ottoman Empire was divided up into local units of officially recognized religious communities called __________.

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millets

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In a practice known as __________, the Ottomans recruited their elite military forces from among Christian boys in the empire

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Devshirme

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T/F The Ottoman rulers' close collaboration with Islamic religious authorities ensured the empire's vitality and success well into the modern era.

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False