Question 1

What were the Navigation Acts of 1651?

Accepted Answer

A)  They gave British merchants and shipowners a monopoly on trade with British colonies. 
B)  They declared a British blockade of France. 
C)  They established fair trading rules between the Dutch, French, and British. 
D)  They were designed to protect the thirteen colonies. 
A)  They gave British merchants and shipowners a monopoly on trade with British colonies. 
B)  They declared a British blockade of France. 
C)  They established fair trading rules between the Dutch, French, and British. 
D)  They were designed to protect the thirteen colonies.

Question 2

Use the following to answer questions:
-mercantilism

Accepted Answer

A) A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church. 
B) Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity. 
C) The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price. 
D) A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France. 
E) Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state. 
A) A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church. 
B) Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity. 
C) The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price. 
D) A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France. 
E) Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

Question 3

In 1688, Spain recognized the independence of what country?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Netherlands 
B)  Portugal 
C)  Mexico 
D)  France 
A)  The Netherlands 
B)  Portugal 
C)  Mexico 
D)  France

Question 4

In 1649, after the execution of Charles I, England was initially declared which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  A military dictatorship 
B)  A theocracy 
C)  A democracy 
D)  A commonwealth 
A)  A military dictatorship 
B)  A theocracy 
C)  A democracy 
D)  A commonwealth

Question 5

The first permanent French settlement at Quebec was founded as

Accepted Answer

A)  a fur trading post. 
B)  a colony for Huguenots. 
C)  an agricultural settlement. 
D)  a port of resupply for further exploration. 
A)  a fur trading post. 
B)  a colony for Huguenots. 
C)  an agricultural settlement. 
D)  a port of resupply for further exploration.

Question 6

The Thirty Years' War began with what region in Europe?

Accepted Answer

A)  Sweden 
B)  Bohemia 
C)  France 
D)  The Netherlands 
A)  Sweden 
B)  Bohemia 
C)  France 
D)  The Netherlands

Question 7

What problems have led historians to describe the seventeenth century in Europe as an Age of Crisis?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Europe's p

Question 8

Use the following to answer questions:
-Jesuits

Accepted Answer

A) A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church. 
B) Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity. 
C) The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price. 
D) A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France. 
E) Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state. 
A) A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church. 
B) Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity. 
C) The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price. 
D) A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France. 
E) Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

Question 9

Use the following to answer questions:
-republicanism

Accepted Answer

A) A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church. 
B) Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity. 
C) The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price. 
D) A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France. 
E) Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state. 
A) A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church. 
B) Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity. 
C) The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price. 
D) A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France. 
E) Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

Question 10

What was the root cause of the Thirty Years' War?

Accepted Answer

A)  Economic dislocation 
B)  Conflicts between Catholics and Protestants 
C)  Political upheaval in France 
D)  Lutheran-Catholic tensions 
A)  Economic dislocation 
B)  Conflicts between Catholics and Protestants 
C)  Political upheaval in France 
D)  Lutheran-Catholic tensions

Question 11

In the late seventeenth century, the Austrian Habsburgs drove what rival empire out of Hungary?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Ottomans 
B)  Bohemia 
C)  Russia 
D)  Germany 
A)  The Ottomans 
B)  Bohemia 
C)  Russia 
D)  Germany

Question 12

How did the Thirty Years' War affect the balance of power in Europe in the seventeenth century?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
The Thirty

Question 13

What changed for Europeans as a result of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648?

Accepted Answer

A)  The treaties that established it ended conflicts fought over religious faith. 
B)  The Holy Roman emperor gained considerable power while the German princes lost influence. 
C)  Calvinism was made illegal in the empire. 
D)  The Augsburg agreement of 1555 was abolished, and Lutheranism was made the only legal religion of the empire. 
A)  The treaties that established it ended conflicts fought over religious faith. 
B)  The Holy Roman emperor gained considerable power while the German princes lost influence. 
C)  Calvinism was made illegal in the empire. 
D)  The Augsburg agreement of 1555 was abolished, and Lutheranism was made the only legal religion of the empire.

Question 14

What country did Peter the Great defeat at the Battle of Poltava?

Accepted Answer

A)  Poland 
B)  Austria 
C)  Sweden 
D)  Latvia 
A)  Poland 
B)  Austria 
C)  Sweden 
D)  Latvia

Question 15

Compare the development of absolutism in Austria and Spain. What factors influenced the development of each state? What were the similarities and differences in the development of absolutism in these two states?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
While war

Question 16

What was the focus of Cardinal Richelieu's domestic policies?

Accepted Answer

A)  Reforming the church 
B)  Supporting the spread of Protestantism 
C)  Strengthening royal control 
D)  Expanding the power of the nobility 
A)  Reforming the church 
B)  Supporting the spread of Protestantism 
C)  Strengthening royal control 
D)  Expanding the power of the nobility

Question 17

How did the Austrian Habsburgs build their power after the Thirty Years' War?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
The Habsbu

Question 18

How did the climate change in Europe during the seventeenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  It became warmer and wetter. 
B)  It became warmer and drier. 
C)  It became colder and wetter. 
D)  It became colder and drier. 
A)  It became warmer and wetter. 
B)  It became warmer and drier. 
C)  It became colder and wetter. 
D)  It became colder and drier.

Question 19

How are the territorial ambitions of Peter the Great reflected in Map 18.5, "The Expansion of Russia, 1462-1689"?

Accepted Answer

A)  He greatly desired access to the Baltic and Black Seas. 
B)  He viewed control of Siberia as crucial to Russia's future expansion. 
C)  He highly valued access to inland waterways. 
D)  He valued eastward expansion more than westward expansion. 
A)  He greatly desired access to the Baltic and Black Seas. 
B)  He viewed control of Siberia as crucial to Russia's future expansion. 
C)  He highly valued access to inland waterways. 
D)  He valued eastward expansion more than westward expansion.

Question 20

Explain the concept of mercantilism. Give concrete examples of governments pursuing mercantilist policies.

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Mercantili

Exam 18: European Power and Expansion, 1500-1750

What were the Navigation Acts of 1651?

Use the following to answer questions: -mercantilism

In 1688, Spain recognized the independence of what country?

In 1649, after the execution of Charles I, England was initially declared which of the following?

The first permanent French settlement at Quebec was founded as

The Thirty Years' War began with what region in Europe?

What problems have led historians to describe the seventeenth century in Europe as an Age of Crisis?

Use the following to answer questions: -Jesuits

Use the following to answer questions: -republicanism

What was the root cause of the Thirty Years' War?

In the late seventeenth century, the Austrian Habsburgs drove what rival empire out of Hungary?

How did the Thirty Years' War affect the balance of power in Europe in the seventeenth century?

What changed for Europeans as a result of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648?

What country did Peter the Great defeat at the Battle of Poltava?

Compare the development of absolutism in Austria and Spain. What factors influenced the development of each state? What were the similarities and differences in the development of absolutism in these two states?

What was the focus of Cardinal Richelieu's domestic policies?

How did the Austrian Habsburgs build their power after the Thirty Years' War?

How did the climate change in Europe during the seventeenth century?

How are the territorial ambitions of Peter the Great reflected in Map 18.5, "The Expansion of Russia, 1462-1689"?

Explain the concept of mercantilism. Give concrete examples of governments pursuing mercantilist policies.

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