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Ch15Statebuilding
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 17th century European populations | fluctuated narrowly, constrained by famines and diseases |
| the witch hunt craves of the 16th and 17th centuries | were often directed against old single women |
| Recent scholarship cites which of the following reasons for the witchcraft craze of the 16th and 17th centuries? | Social conditions that threatend old communal values |
| The 30 Years War | Is considered by most to be the first "modern war" |
| THe event that sparked the Thirty Years War was | A rebellion of Protestant nobles against the Catholic ruler Ferdinand in Bohemia |
| As a result of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 | German states were allowed to determine their religion |
| Following the Thirty Years' War, what country became dominant in Europe? | France |
| Cardinal Richelieu's foreign policy | Led to a disastrous increase in Frech government debt. |
| The military revolution of changes in the science and practice of warfare between 1550 and 1650 saw armies | Change from mercenaries to conscripts for manpower |
| Jacques Boussuet's POlitics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture | was the fundamental statement of 17th century divine right monarchy |
| Absolutism means | ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right |
| As Louis XIII's chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu was most succcessful in | Strengthening the central role of the monarchy in domestic and foreign policy |
| The series of noble revolts know as the Fronde resulted in | French citizens looking to the monarchy for stability |
| Louis XIV restructured the policy-making machinery of the French government by | personally dominating the actions of his ministers and secretaries and stacking the royal council with loyal followers from relatively new aristocratic families |
| The economic policies of Hean-Baptiste Colbert, | were based on mercantillism |
| The costly palace built by louis XIV that became the envy of all European monarchs, was | Versailles |
| The chief reason for the wars of Louis XIV was | His desire to insure the dominance of France and his Bourbon dynasty in all Europe |
| The War of Spanish Succession was effectively concluded with the Peace of Utrecht in 1713 which | Greatly benefited England |
| The overall practical political purpose of the Court of Versailles was to | Isolate Louis XIV from any contact with the bourgeoisie and other members of the old Third Estate |
| Louis XIV's edict of Fontainebleau | Revoked the earlier Edict of Nantes, curtailed the rights of the French Protestants |
| after 1648 the Holy Roman Empire | was not really an empire at all but rather a loose association of 300 German states |
| Frederick William the Great Elector built Brandenberg-Prussia into a significant European power by | Making the General War Commmissariat the bureaucratic machine of his state |
| The Austrain Empire in the 17th century | Lost a German empire, but gained one in eastern and southeastern Europe |
| Which of the following exerted the most influence on Italy by the 18th century? | Austria |
| Russian society in the 17th century | was characterized by a highly oppressive system of serfdom |
| Which of the following statements best applies to PEter the Great of Russia? | His program of Europeanization was predominantly technical and aimed at modernizing the military |
| Peter the Greats foreign poilicy had as its primary goal | opening of a port easily accessible to Europe |
| Scandinavia in the 17th and 18th centuries witnessed | Sweeden become a second-rate power after the Great Northern War |
| The political institution known as the Sejm made seventeenth-century Poland | An impotent, decentralized state |
| The sleeping giant of Eastern Europe in the first half of the 17th century was | Austria |
| The Golden age of the Dutch Republic in the 17th century witnessed | William of Orange become king, The temporary weakening of the states general |
| James 1 of England alienate most of the members of Parliament by | insisting on his right to govern through Divine Right |
| The Petition of Right among other things | Maintained that the King could pass no new tax without the consent of Parliament |
| The Parliamentarians were successful in the English Civil War because | of the effectivness of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army |
| The devout Catholic English monarch who instigated a constitutional crisis for England in 1687-1688 | James II |
| The glorious revolution in 1688 in England was significant for | bloodlessly deposing james II in favor of william of Orange |
| The incident that prompted the nobles to depose James II was | The birth of a Catholic son |
| Thomas Hobbes | stated that mankind was animalistic, and needed a strong government to maintain social order |
| John locke was responsible for | Emphasixing the social contract between the poeple and the government |
| The artistic movement manerism reached its peak with the work of | Rembrandt |
| Baroque art | Attempted to blend the feelings of the religious reformations with Renaissance art |
| The Baroque painter who used violent motion, heavily fleashed nudes, and dramatic use of light and shadow, and rich sensuous pigments in his paintings was | Rubens |
| The greatest figure of Baroque art was | Rembrandt |
| Baroque art was superseded by which of the following artistic styles? | French Classism |
| The first female painter admitted to the Guild of St Luke in Haarlem and who painted scenes of everyday life was | Judith Leyster |
| The dutch painter rembrant van rijn was noted for | being the one great protestant painter of the 17th century |
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