Question 1

The Catholic Church condemned the theories of Copernicus and Galileo because they

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A) ended the spirituality of the earth. 
B) threatened the Scriptures, as the heavens were no longer a spiritual world but a world of matter. 
C) was simpler to accept it than to reject its doctrinal challenges. 
D) conflicted with those of Newton. 
E) were contrary to the Council of Constance. 
A) ended the spirituality of the earth. 
B) threatened the Scriptures, as the heavens were no longer a spiritual world but a world of matter. 
C) was simpler to accept it than to reject its doctrinal challenges. 
D) conflicted with those of Newton. 
E) were contrary to the Council of Constance.

Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
partitions of Poland

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The partitions of Poland, also known as

Question 3

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Social Cont

Question 4

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of

Question 5

Napoleon gained control of the executive authority of the French government by

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A) becoming President of the Committee of Public Safety. 
B) being elected as first director of the Directory. 
C) seizing power in a coup d'etat. 
D) capitalizing on his military victories to become a popularly elected president. 
E) his appointment to the post by a newly restored monarch, Louis XVII. 
A) becoming President of the Committee of Public Safety. 
B) being elected as first director of the Directory. 
C) seizing power in a coup d'etat. 
D) capitalizing on his military victories to become a popularly elected president. 
E) his appointment to the post by a newly restored monarch, Louis XVII.

Question 6

Which of the following accurately describes European colonial development in the New World? ​

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A)  The English took New Netherland from the Dutch and changed its name to New York. 
B) The French expelled the Dutch from the Hudson Valley. 
C) The Spanish ceded all claim to North America. 
D) The Dutch fought an entrenched war with the British for New Amsterdam 
E) Russia lay claim to the West Coast of the New World, initiating war with Napoleon. 
A)  The English took New Netherland from the Dutch and changed its name to New York. 
B) The French expelled the Dutch from the Hudson Valley. 
C) The Spanish ceded all claim to North America. 
D) The Dutch fought an entrenched war with the British for New Amsterdam 
E) Russia lay claim to the West Coast of the New World, initiating war with Napoleon.

Question 7

The Russian monarch whose policies favored the landed nobility, at the expense of the serfs, was

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A) Alexander II. 
B) Catherine the Great. 
C) Peter II. 
D) Peter the Great. 
E) Ivan IV. 
A) Alexander II. 
B) Catherine the Great. 
C) Peter II. 
D) Peter the Great. 
E) Ivan IV.

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Robert Clive

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Robert Clive, also known as Clive of Ind

Question 9

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Isaac Newton's Principia

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Isaac Newton's "Principia," formally kno

Question 10

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Descartes and Cartesian Dualism

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Descartes refers to René Descartes (1596

Question 11

The eighteenth-century ruler who called himself/herself "the first servant of the state" was

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A) Joseph II of Austria. 
B) George III of Great Britain. 
C) Catherine the Great of Russia. 
D) Frederick II of Prussia. 
E) Louis XVI of France. 
A) Joseph II of Austria. 
B) George III of Great Britain. 
C) Catherine the Great of Russia. 
D) Frederick II of Prussia. 
E) Louis XVI of France.

Question 12

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Seven Years' War

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The Seven Years' War was a global confli

Question 13

The most successful British colony in North America was ​

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A) Roanoke 
B) Massachussetts Bay 
C) Jamestown 
D) Hudson Valley 
E) Charleston 
A) Roanoke 
B) Massachussetts Bay 
C) Jamestown 
D) Hudson Valley 
E) Charleston

Question 14

Enlightened absolutism

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A) was based more on practical measures to strengthen the power of the state than to "reform" and free their populations. 
B) was best illustrated by the activity of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. 
C) was truly applied only briefly, in the ten months before the death of Emelyan Pugachev. 
D) was limited by the desires of the middle classes to retain their special advantages. 
E) best describes the British government in the eighteenth century. 
A) was based more on practical measures to strengthen the power of the state than to "reform" and free their populations. 
B) was best illustrated by the activity of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. 
C) was truly applied only briefly, in the ten months before the death of Emelyan Pugachev. 
D) was limited by the desires of the middle classes to retain their special advantages. 
E) best describes the British government in the eighteenth century.

Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Elba and Saint Helena

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Elba and Saint Helena are both islands k

Question 16

Which of the following was not an immediate result of the fall of Robespierre?

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A) A period of stagnation and corruption ensued. 
B) The Reign of Terror ended. 
C) Moderate forces came to control the Revolution. 
D) A new constitution was written that strove for stability by placing executive authority in the hands of the Directory. 
E) Napoleon was elected President of France. 
A) A period of stagnation and corruption ensued. 
B) The Reign of Terror ended. 
C) Moderate forces came to control the Revolution. 
D) A new constitution was written that strove for stability by placing executive authority in the hands of the Directory. 
E) Napoleon was elected President of France.

Question 17

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
high culture and popular culture and Carnival

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High culture refers to the set of cultur

Question 18

Cartesian dualism

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A) separated people on the basis of gender. 
B) distinguished primarily between good and evil. 
C) viewed mind and matter as two distinct and separate entities. 
D) refuted the elipticism of Newton's rhetorical absolutes. 
E) was initially developed by Bacon and Locke. 
A) separated people on the basis of gender. 
B) distinguished primarily between good and evil. 
C) viewed mind and matter as two distinct and separate entities. 
D) refuted the elipticism of Newton's rhetorical absolutes. 
E) was initially developed by Bacon and Locke.

Question 19

In eighteenth-century Europe,

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A) it was illegal for a noble-class male to marry a middle-class female without a government dispensation everywhere except in Prussia and the Netherlands. 
B) noble and bourgeois women dressed in the same fashion and were visually indistinguishable. 
C) the peasants composed less than forty percent of the populations of Austria and France. 
D) nobles constituted approximately two or three percent of the population. 
E) factory workers had replaced farmers as the majority of the population. 
A) it was illegal for a noble-class male to marry a middle-class female without a government dispensation everywhere except in Prussia and the Netherlands. 
B) noble and bourgeois women dressed in the same fashion and were visually indistinguishable. 
C) the peasants composed less than forty percent of the populations of Austria and France. 
D) nobles constituted approximately two or three percent of the population. 
E) factory workers had replaced farmers as the majority of the population.

Question 20

What was the relationship of the Enlightenment to the Scientific Revolution? Could the Enlightenment have occurred with the Scientific Revolution?

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The Enlightenment was closely related to

The Catholic Church condemned the theories of Copernicus and Galileo because they

Instructions: Identify the following terms. partitions of Poland

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Napoleon gained control of the executive authority of the French government by

Which of the following accurately describes European colonial development in the New World?

The Russian monarch whose policies favored the landed nobility, at the expense of the serfs, was

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Robert Clive

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Isaac Newton's Principia

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Descartes and Cartesian Dualism

The eighteenth-century ruler who called himself/herself "the first servant of the state" was

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Seven Years' War

The most successful British colony in North America was

Enlightened absolutism

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Elba and Saint Helena

Which of the following was not an immediate result of the fall of Robespierre?

Instructions: Identify the following terms. high culture and popular culture and Carnival

Cartesian dualism

In eighteenth-century Europe,

What was the relationship of the Enlightenment to the Scientific Revolution? Could the Enlightenment have occurred with the Scientific Revolution?

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Exam 5: The West on the Eve of a New World Order

The Catholic Church condemned the theories of Copernicus and Galileo because they

Instructions: Identify the following terms. partitions of Poland

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Napoleon gained control of the executive authority of the French government by

Which of the following accurately describes European colonial development in the New World? ​

The Russian monarch whose policies favored the landed nobility, at the expense of the serfs, was

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Robert Clive

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Isaac Newton's Principia

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Descartes and Cartesian Dualism

The eighteenth-century ruler who called himself/herself "the first servant of the state" was

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Seven Years' War

The most successful British colony in North America was ​

Enlightened absolutism

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Elba and Saint Helena

Which of the following was not an immediate result of the fall of Robespierre?

Instructions: Identify the following terms. high culture and popular culture and Carnival

Cartesian dualism

In eighteenth-century Europe,

What was the relationship of the Enlightenment to the Scientific Revolution? Could the Enlightenment have occurred with the Scientific Revolution?

New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market

Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building

The Muslim Empires

The East Asian World

The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

The Americas and Society and Culture in the West

The High Tide of Imperialism

Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939

The Crisis Deepens: World War II

East and West in the Grip of the Cold War

Brave New World: Communism on Trial

Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

Toward the Pacific Century

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Which of the following accurately describes European colonial development in the New World?

The most successful British colony in North America was