Deck 3: State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Question 1

What was the relationship in the France of Louis XIV between pomp and rule?

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Question 2

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Thirty Years War

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Question 3

England in the seventeenth century witnessed a general revolutionary upheaval that involved a struggle between king and Parliament.What were the issues (causes) of this struggle? What role did the Puritans play in its course? In what ways was England changed by it?

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Question 4

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witches

Question 5

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Gustavus Adolphus

Question 6

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"divine right"

Question 7

What was "new" about Baroque art, and how did it reflect or impact the culture of the seventeenth century?

Question 8

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Peace of Westphalia

Question 9

What were the economic and social problems that troubled Europe from 1560 to 1650? Do these problems constitute a "crisis"?

Question 10

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conscript standing armies

Question 11

What permanent alterations to Europe did the Thirty Years' War make?

Question 12

Why did England move toward a limited monarchy while places like Prussia, Austria, and Russia moved toward a more robust and absolutist monarchy?

Question 13

What role did the nobility play in politics and government in Poland and England?

Question 14

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Bishop Jacques Bossuet

Question 15

Compare the reigns of Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia and Peter the Great of Russia.How are their policies similar? How are they different?

Question 16

What was the "military revolution" and what effect did it have on warfare in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

Question 17

Define absolutism and determine to what extent France's government in the seventeenth century can be labeled an absolute monarchy.

Question 18

How did the art and literature of the second half of the seventeenth century reflect the political and social life of that period? Give examples.

Question 19

Why were women the prevalent victims of Europe's witch craze?

Question 20

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absolutism

Question 21

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Peter the Great

Question 22

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Great Northern War

Question 23

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the Fronde

Question 24

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the Orthodox Church

Question 25

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Poland's Sejm

Question 26

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Edict of Fontainebleau

Question 27

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the Hohenzollerns

Question 28

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Vienna and the Ottoman Empire

Question 29

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Louis XIV

Question 30

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Peace of Utrecht

Question 31

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Saint Petersburg

Question 32

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Versailles

Question 33

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Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Question 34

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Russian serfdom

Question 35

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Louis XIV's wars

Question 36

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Brandenburg-Prussia

Question 37

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Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin

Question 38

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the Romanovs

Question 39

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Frederick William the Great Elector

Question 40

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Treaty of Karlowitz

Question 41

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Bill of Rights

Question 42

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the house of Orange

Question 43

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Bernini and Gentileschi

Question 44

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Test Act

Question 45

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Puritans

Question 46

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Levellers

Question 47

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James II

Question 48

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the Restoration

Question 49

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Mannerism and El Greco

Question 50

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English Civil War

Question 51

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William Shakespeare

Question 52

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Glorious Revolution

Question 53

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Thomas Hobbes

Question 54

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Amsterdam

Question 55

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Baroque

Question 56

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the Stuarts

Question 57

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French Classicism

Question 58

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John Locke

Question 59

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Oliver Cromwell

Question 60

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Rembrandt van Rijn

Question 61

The Thirty Years' War

A) eventually involved every country in Europe and Asia.
B) is considered by most to be the first "modern" war.
C) is considered by most to be part of the larger Bourbon-Habsburg struggle.
D) was primarily fought in Spain.
E) was exclusively caused by religious differences.

Question 62

The economic policies of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's controller general of finances

A) were noted for their innovation and originality.
B) used new accounting practices to take the tax burden off the peasants.
C) were based on the economic theory of mercantilism that stressed government regulation of economic affairs to benefit the state.
D) gave Louis the large surplus in the treasury needed to carry out his wars.
E) could best be described as laissez-faire.

Question 63

All of the following were part of the "military revolution" in the century after 1560 except

A) the increased use of militias and volunteer soldiers.
B) standing armies based upon conscription.
C) increased use of the musket and bayonet.
D) larger sailing ships, known as "ships of the line."
E) the education of officers in military schools.

Question 64

Cardinal Richelieu understood that, in Louis XIV's France, the most important roadblock to building a strong monarchy was

A) the rising cost of warfare.
B) witchcraft.
C) resistance by the great nobles.
D) armed uprisings by workers in Paris.
E) peasant revolts in the countryside.

Question 65

As Louis XIII's chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu was most successful in

A) evicting the Huguenot presence from France after the La Rochelle rebellion.
B) expanding the political and social rights of the Huguenots.
C) creating a reservoir of funds for the treasury.
D) emerging victorious from the Fronde revolts of the nobility.
E) strengthening the central role of the monarchy in domestic and foreign policy.

Question 66

The uprising in France that nearly overthrew Louis XIV early in his reign was the

A) Vendee.
B) Marseillaise.
C) Fronde.
D) Jacquerie.
E) Revolution.

Question 67

Jacques Boussuet's Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture

A) rejected as ungodly Louis XIV's system of absolute rule.
B) was the fundamental statement of seventeenth-century divine right monarchy.
C) stressed that a limited monarchy with representative bodies was the most divine form of human government.
D) claimed that a king's authority and power were revocable under the law of God.
E) justified a "holy republic".

Question 68

Gustavus Adolphus, who led the Lutheran armies in the Thirty Years' War until he was killed at Lützen, was king of

A) Poland.
B) Sweden.
C) Denmark.
D) Hungary.
E) Austria.

Question 69

Following the Thirty Years' War, what country became dominant in Europe?

A) Sweden
B) England
C) Germany
D) Spain
E) France

Question 70

Louis XIV restructured the policy-making machinery of the French government by

A) personally dominating the actions of his ministers and secretaries.
B) stacking the royal council with loyal followers from relatively new aristocratic families.
C) selecting his ministers from established aristocratic families.
D) all of the above
E) a and b

Question 71

Seventeenth-century European population

A) increased dramatically due to greater food production.
B) decreased dramatically due to disease and war.
C) experienced great fluctuations as European nations established colonies.
D) fluctuated narrowly, constrained by famines and diseases.
E) a and c

Question 72

Which of the following groups were particularly susceptible to suspicion during Europe's prolonged witchcraft craze?

A) Outsiders.
B) Young, aggressive men.
C) Members of opposing Christian denominations.
D) Witches.
E) Old women.

Question 73

The chief reason for the wars of Louis XIV was

A) to reduce the power of the Habsburgs.
B) his desire to insure the dominance of France and his Bourbon dynasty in all Europe.
C) to destroy the commercial superiority of the Dutch.
D) to gain ports on the Adriatic Sea.
E) spread Catholicism throughout all of Europe.

Question 74

Absolutism means

A) the real power in any state must be religious and exercised by the church.
B) ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right.
C) subordinate powers have an absolute right to advise the king on conducting the affairs of state.
D) no matter how humble, male citizens have an absolute right to participate in politics.
E) rule by a secular dictator, justifying his/her authority by supposedly serving the people.

Question 75

As a result of the Peace of Westphalia of 1648

A) the German population was to be converted to Catholicism.
B) all German states could choose their own religions, except for Calvinism.
C) German states were allowed to determine their religion.
D) the institution of the Holy Roman Empire was to be the ruling force in Germany for the next 100 years.
E) the Holy Roman Empire was dismembered.

Question 76

Louis XIV used his palace at Versailles to

A) dominate the nobility and display his grandeur.
B) putter around in the garden and enjoy nature.
C) earn money by centralizing the marketplace.
D) get away from politics and spend time with his family.
E) provide a spiritual sanctuary from a troubled world.

Question 77

In the Thirty Years' War, Wallenstein was a general who fought for

A) the Emperor Ferdinand.
B) Prussia.
C) Sweden.
D) Spain.
E) England.

Question 78

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Lope de Vega

Question 79

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Racine and Moliere

Question 80

The witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

A) came out of the social unrest deriving from the shift from individualism to communalism.
B) were often directed against old single women
C) were generally directed only at people who denied that they were religious.
D) were primarily restricted to rural areas.
E) were minimal in comparison to the late Middle Ages.