Exam 2: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building

What were the most significant aspects of the witchcraft craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Why was it so widespread? Why did it decline?

All of the following were true about the witchcraft craze in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries except

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Hanseatic League

The largest call for religious reforms came from ​

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Anabaptists

Luther's reforms included all of the following except

Puritans were all of the following except that

Instructions: Identify the following terms. William Shakespeare

James I alienated England's Parliament because of his advocacy of

"The economic and social changes that occurred during the fifteenth and early sixteenth century inevitably led to the Protestant Reformation." Discuss. Can it also be said that the economic and political turmoil that characterized this period also led to significant artistic and literary accomplishments?

Between the account of Louis XIV's day, and the art and architecture of Versailles Palace, what role do you think "image" played in enforcing the absolutism of the French monarchy?  How did Louis implement systems to decrease the power of his detractors?​

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Elizabeth Tudor

Advocates of "mercantilism" argued for all of the following except

What were the major factors that removed Russia from the policies and culture of Western Europe, and why did Peter the Great use Europe as a model for Russia to emulate in his quest for modernization?​

Instructions: Identify the following terms. divine-right theory and absolutism

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "justification by faith"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "bloody Mary"

In the fifteenth century, the Italians-especially the Venetians-in their commercial empires were only rivaled by

Why did the government of France become the center of European absolutism? Why not Russia? Was it simply fate or chance, or were there other factors which could explain why the era became known as the Age of Louis XIV?

The Edict of Nantes recognized Catholicism as the official religion of France, but granted Huguenots rights as well.