Exam 22: The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750

Who used astronomical observation and mathematical calculation to disprove the Hellenistic belief that the Earth was the center of the universe?

Which of the following states stood apart from the trend toward absolute monarchy in the 17th century and retained a parliamentary regime?

What new religious order was associated with the Catholic Reformation?

Which of the following states fell back from European ascendancy following the religious wars?

What monarch is associated with the establishment of enlightened despotism in Prussia in the middle of the 18th century?

By the 16th century, at what age did most Europeans marry?

Inflation and commercialization in the West produced a group of people without access to producing property called the

What was Isaac Newton?s work published in 1687 that drew various theories together into a framework of natural laws?

In 1733, James Kay of England introduced

Which of the following was NOT a Western response to the commercial revolution of the 16th century?

How was the absolute monarchy of the 17th century different from the political forms of the Middle Ages?

William Harvey was responsible for what discovery during the Scientific Revolution?

Which of the following was not typical of the commercial revolution of the 16th century?

Which of the following was NOT an impact of the Renaissance on politics and commerce?

How did the Western view of science compare with that of other civilizations?

By 1750, the strands of commercial, cultural, and political change had been combined to create

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the nature of manufacturing in the later 18th century?

Which of the following reasons suggests why common people supported the Lutheran Reformation?

How did agriculture change in the late 17th century?

All of the following were typical of 16th century absolute monarchy EXCEPT