Question 1

Which of the following statements about early modern monarchies is inaccurate?

Accepted Answer

A) Monarchs began to make their presence known to the average individual through taxes and conscription. 
B) The absolute power of kings extended into the realm of private property; monarchs literally owned everything in their country. 
C) Political power was overwhelmingly masculine and familial. 
D) Monarchs and commercial classes could form powerful alliances. 
E) Monarchial states helped to usher in the modern age. 
A) Monarchs began to make their presence known to the average individual through taxes and conscription. 
B) The absolute power of kings extended into the realm of private property; monarchs literally owned everything in their country. 
C) Political power was overwhelmingly masculine and familial. 
D) Monarchs and commercial classes could form powerful alliances. 
E) Monarchial states helped to usher in the modern age. B

Question 2

The United Provinces combined all the following except

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A) the most innovative commercial and financial practices in Europe. 
B) a unique urban and capitalist cultural milieu. 
C) a well-defined republican government with the head of the House of Orange as limited monarch. 
D) wide tolerance and the richest society in Europe. 
E) a rich and politically engaged bourgeoisie. 
A) the most innovative commercial and financial practices in Europe. 
B) a unique urban and capitalist cultural milieu. 
C) a well-defined republican government with the head of the House of Orange as limited monarch. 
D) wide tolerance and the richest society in Europe. 
E) a rich and politically engaged bourgeoisie. C

Question 3

The Reformation had a major political impact on the Holy Roman Empire, among other reasons, because

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A) the Protestant emphasis on obedience to secular authorities centralized the Empire into a unified German state. 
B) the separation of church and state weakened both. 
C) feudal princes and Protestant communities allied to keep the Emperor weak. 
D) the resulting wars of religion enabled the Emperor to increase his power, finally breaking the power of feudalism. 
E) Protestants effectively turned the Empire into a theocracy. 
A) the Protestant emphasis on obedience to secular authorities centralized the Empire into a unified German state. 
B) the separation of church and state weakened both. 
C) feudal princes and Protestant communities allied to keep the Emperor weak. 
D) the resulting wars of religion enabled the Emperor to increase his power, finally breaking the power of feudalism. 
E) Protestants effectively turned the Empire into a theocracy. C

Question 4

In general, mature absolutist states displayed the following characteristic(s)

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A) royal patronage and suppression of the opposition. 
B) a large centralized bureaucracy and effective channeling of wealth and resource into the service of the state. 
C) a universal but inequitably applied system of taxation and a unified system of law. 
D) state cultivation of the arts and sciences. 
E) All of these 
A) royal patronage and suppression of the opposition. 
B) a large centralized bureaucracy and effective channeling of wealth and resource into the service of the state. 
C) a universal but inequitably applied system of taxation and a unified system of law. 
D) state cultivation of the arts and sciences. 
E) All of these

Question 5

Medieval French kings did all of the following except

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A) establish an efficient bureaucracy staffed by members of the bourgeoisie and lesser nobles, persons dependent on the king. 
B) claim to have been selected directly by God to rule. 
C) exercise absolute power. 
D) earn the allegiance of many of their subjects through their role in the Hundred Years' War. 
E) unilaterally levy taxes and maintain a standing army. 
A) establish an efficient bureaucracy staffed by members of the bourgeoisie and lesser nobles, persons dependent on the king. 
B) claim to have been selected directly by God to rule. 
C) exercise absolute power. 
D) earn the allegiance of many of their subjects through their role in the Hundred Years' War. 
E) unilaterally levy taxes and maintain a standing army.

Question 6

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-constitutional monarchy

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Constitutional Monarchy:

Who?
A constit

Question 7

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Junker

Accepted Answer

The term "Junker" refers to a member of

Question 8

The descendents of Ferdinand and Isabella married into which non-Spanish family to create an empire extending from Austria to the Pacific?

Accepted Answer

A) The Hohenzollerns 
B) The Jagiellonians 
C) The Stuarts 
D) The Hapsburgs 
E) The Bourbons 
A) The Hohenzollerns 
B) The Jagiellonians 
C) The Stuarts 
D) The Hapsburgs 
E) The Bourbons

Question 9

How did most monarchies use religion to strengthen their state?

Accepted Answer

A) Most confiscated Church property to finance their growing armies and administration 
B) Most attempted to make religion one of the forces uniting their subjects into a nation 
C) By separating church and state, monarchies enabled people of different religious beliefs to all pledge allegiance to the same king. 
D) Through prayer, kings were able to overcome their enemies. 
E) Most presented the state as an alternative to the divisiveness of religion 
A) Most confiscated Church property to finance their growing armies and administration 
B) Most attempted to make religion one of the forces uniting their subjects into a nation 
C) By separating church and state, monarchies enabled people of different religious beliefs to all pledge allegiance to the same king. 
D) Through prayer, kings were able to overcome their enemies. 
E) Most presented the state as an alternative to the divisiveness of religion

Question 10

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s)  
-Draw in the border of the Holy Roman Empire in 1618.Indicate the spot where the Thirty Years' War began.Indicate two foreign powers that intervened in the Thirty Years' War.

Accepted Answer

As an AI text-based model, I'm unable to

Question 11

The weakest feature of Charles V's empire and the one that would lead most to the decline of Spain was

Accepted Answer

A) the conflict with Protestants. 
B) the complexity of administering such a large empire. 
C) constant warfare on the continent and in the Mediterranean. 
D) lack of domestic industry, the lack of entrepreneurship and a weak commercial class. 
E) separatism in Catalonia, Velencia, and Galicia. 
A) the conflict with Protestants. 
B) the complexity of administering such a large empire. 
C) constant warfare on the continent and in the Mediterranean. 
D) lack of domestic industry, the lack of entrepreneurship and a weak commercial class. 
E) separatism in Catalonia, Velencia, and Galicia.

Question 12

The phrase raison d'état was invented by

Accepted Answer

A) Henry VIII. 
B) Niccoló Machiavelli. 
C) Cardinal Richelieu. 
D) Charles V. 
E) Louis XIV. 
A) Henry VIII. 
B) Niccoló Machiavelli. 
C) Cardinal Richelieu. 
D) Charles V. 
E) Louis XIV.

Question 13

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-intendants

Accepted Answer

Intendants were administrative officials

Question 14

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Hapsburgs

Accepted Answer

The Hapsburgs, also spelled Habsburgs, w

Question 15

The two most common forms of government in early modern Europe were

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A) absolute monarchy and republican states. 
B) limited monarchy and autocracy. 
C) republican states and limited monarchy. 
D) absolute monarchy and autocracy. 
E) autocracy and republican states. 
A) absolute monarchy and republican states. 
B) limited monarchy and autocracy. 
C) republican states and limited monarchy. 
D) absolute monarchy and autocracy. 
E) autocracy and republican states.

Question 16

The Netherlands were the linchpin of Philip II's empire.Troubles began when

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A) the Spanish sent to the Inquisition and a large army to keep order. 
B) the English began to raid Dutch ships. 
C) a tightly organized Calvinist minority in the north began to harass Spanish authorities. 
D) the Union of Utrecht united seven of the provinces. 
E) the Spanish Armada was lost in the English Channel. 
A) the Spanish sent to the Inquisition and a large army to keep order. 
B) the English began to raid Dutch ships. 
C) a tightly organized Calvinist minority in the north began to harass Spanish authorities. 
D) the Union of Utrecht united seven of the provinces. 
E) the Spanish Armada was lost in the English Channel.

Question 17

As Spain declined in the seventeenth century

Accepted Answer

A) a social revolution threatened. 
B) it was able to retain control over Portugal and Brazil. 
C) the traditional aristocracy and the church retained power and perpetuated authoritarianism in Spain. 
D) it formed closer ties with the Austrian Hapsburgs. 
E) All of these 
A) a social revolution threatened. 
B) it was able to retain control over Portugal and Brazil. 
C) the traditional aristocracy and the church retained power and perpetuated authoritarianism in Spain. 
D) it formed closer ties with the Austrian Hapsburgs. 
E) All of these

Question 18

In the Glorious Revolution, William of Orange and the Dutch's interest to make a deal with the English Parliament secured their

Accepted Answer

A) hope to regain the lead in European commerce. 
B) need for support against Louis XIV's France. 
C) need for support against the renewal of Spanish attempts to recover the Netherlands. 
D) hopes of acquiring large grants of land seized from Catholic nobles in Ireland. 
E) expectation that some of England's New World colonies would eventually devolve to the Dutch. 
A) hope to regain the lead in European commerce. 
B) need for support against Louis XIV's France. 
C) need for support against the renewal of Spanish attempts to recover the Netherlands. 
D) hopes of acquiring large grants of land seized from Catholic nobles in Ireland. 
E) expectation that some of England's New World colonies would eventually devolve to the Dutch.

Question 19

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question.
-Compare the ambitions of Philip II and Louis XIV

Accepted Answer

Philip II of Spain and Louis XIV of Fran

Question 20

In the period roughly from 1500 to 1750

Accepted Answer

A) the modern state was invented by absolute monarchies that also developed the idea of human liberty. 
B) both the modern state and the idea of human liberty were created by republican states such as the United Provinces. 
C) the modern state was invented by absolute monarchies while the modern idea of human liberty was developed in Renaissance Italy. 
D) republican states such as the United Netherlands and England invented the modern state but the idea of human liberty came from Renaissance Italy. 
E) None of these 
A) the modern state was invented by absolute monarchies that also developed the idea of human liberty. 
B) both the modern state and the idea of human liberty were created by republican states such as the United Provinces. 
C) the modern state was invented by absolute monarchies while the modern idea of human liberty was developed in Renaissance Italy. 
D) republican states such as the United Netherlands and England invented the modern state but the idea of human liberty came from Renaissance Italy. 
E) None of these

Which of the following statements about early modern monarchies is inaccurate?

The United Provinces combined all the following except

The Reformation had a major political impact on the Holy Roman Empire, among other reasons, because

In general, mature absolutist states displayed the following characteristic(s)

Medieval French kings did all of the following except

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -constitutional monarchy

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Junker

The descendents of Ferdinand and Isabella married into which non-Spanish family to create an empire extending from Austria to the Pacific?

How did most monarchies use religion to strengthen their state?

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s) -Draw in the border of the Holy Roman Empire in 1618.Indicate the spot where the Thirty Years' War began.Indicate two foreign powers that intervened in the Thirty Years' War.

The weakest feature of Charles V's empire and the one that would lead most to the decline of Spain was

The phrase raison d'état was invented by

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -intendants

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Hapsburgs

The two most common forms of government in early modern Europe were

The Netherlands were the linchpin of Philip II's empire.Troubles began when

As Spain declined in the seventeenth century

In the Glorious Revolution, William of Orange and the Dutch's interest to make a deal with the English Parliament secured their

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Compare the ambitions of Philip II and Louis XIV

In the period roughly from 1500 to 1750

The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations

The Hebrews: a New View of God and the Individual

The Greek City-State: Democratic Politics

Greek Thought: From Myth to Reason

The Hellenistic Age: Cultural Diffusion

The Roman Republic: City-State to World Empire

The Roman Empire: a World-State

Early Christianity: a World Religion

The Heirs of Rome: Byzantium, Islam, and Latin Christendom

The High Middle Ages: Vitality and Renewal

The Flowering of Medieval Culture: the Christian Synthesis

The Late Middle Ages: Crisis and Dissolution

The Renaissance: Transition to the Modern Age

The Reformation: the Shattering of Christian Unity

European Expansion: Economic and Social Transformations

The Scientific Revolution: the Universe Seen As a Mechanism

The Age of Enlightenment: Reason and Reform

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Exam 16: The Rise of Sovereignty: Transition to the Modern State

Which of the following statements about early modern monarchies is inaccurate?

The United Provinces combined all the following except

The Reformation had a major political impact on the Holy Roman Empire, among other reasons, because

In general, mature absolutist states displayed the following characteristic(s)

Medieval French kings did all of the following except

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -constitutional monarchy

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Junker

The descendents of Ferdinand and Isabella married into which non-Spanish family to create an empire extending from Austria to the Pacific?

How did most monarchies use religion to strengthen their state?

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s) -Draw in the border of the Holy Roman Empire in 1618.Indicate the spot where the Thirty Years' War began.Indicate two foreign powers that intervened in the Thirty Years' War.

The weakest feature of Charles V's empire and the one that would lead most to the decline of Spain was

The phrase raison d'état was invented by

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -intendants

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Hapsburgs

The two most common forms of government in early modern Europe were

The Netherlands were the linchpin of Philip II's empire.Troubles began when

As Spain declined in the seventeenth century

In the Glorious Revolution, William of Orange and the Dutch's interest to make a deal with the English Parliament secured their

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Compare the ambitions of Philip II and Louis XIV

In the period roughly from 1500 to 1750

The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations

The Hebrews: a New View of God and the Individual

The Greek City-State: Democratic Politics

Greek Thought: From Myth to Reason

The Hellenistic Age: Cultural Diffusion

The Roman Republic: City-State to World Empire

The Roman Empire: a World-State

Early Christianity: a World Religion

The Heirs of Rome: Byzantium, Islam, and Latin Christendom

The High Middle Ages: Vitality and Renewal

The Flowering of Medieval Culture: the Christian Synthesis

The Late Middle Ages: Crisis and Dissolution

The Renaissance: Transition to the Modern Age

The Reformation: the Shattering of Christian Unity

European Expansion: Economic and Social Transformations

The Scientific Revolution: the Universe Seen As a Mechanism

The Age of Enlightenment: Reason and Reform

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