Exam 15: State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century.

Compare and contrast Mannerism and the Baroque. What explains the popularity of Baroque art and music, particularly in Catholic Europe?

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Please define the following key terms. -Great Northern War

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Which group was most successful in placing limits on monarchial absolutism?

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How did Louis XIV use his palace at Versailles?

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Please define the following key terms. -gentry

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Question 25

Please define the following key terms. -William Shakespeare

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Please define the following key terms. -Edict of Fontainebleau

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Please define the following key terms. -Vienna and the Ottoman Empire

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Question 28

What was Thomas Hobbes' response to the English revolutions?

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Please define the following key terms. -Cardinal Mazarin

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Question 30

During the reign of Philip III, the greedy duke of Lerma ran

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Which Baroque painter used violent motion, heavily fleshed nudes, dramatic use of light and shadow, and rich sensuous pigments in his paintings?

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What steps did the Spanish monarchy take in the first half of the seventeenth century to reverse Spain's decline? How successful were these efforts?

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Question 33

Please define the following key terms. -Rembrandt van Rijn

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Why were women the most prevalent victims of Europe's witch craze? What does this reveal about the social climate at the time, and especially, ideas about gender?

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What was true of William Shakespeare?

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What did Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau achieve?

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Question 37

The Russian nobility was known as boyars.

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Question 38

____ emphasized clarity, simplicity, balance, and harmony.

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What is a component of the Baroque style of art?

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Exam 15: State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century.

Compare and contrast Mannerism and the Baroque. What explains the popularity of Baroque art and music, particularly in Catholic Europe?

Please define the following key terms. -Great Northern War

Which group was most successful in placing limits on monarchial absolutism?

How did Louis XIV use his palace at Versailles?

Please define the following key terms. -gentry

Please define the following key terms. -William Shakespeare

Please define the following key terms. -Edict of Fontainebleau

Please define the following key terms. -Vienna and the Ottoman Empire

What was Thomas Hobbes' response to the English revolutions?

Please define the following key terms. -Cardinal Mazarin

During the reign of Philip III, the greedy duke of Lerma ran

Which Baroque painter used violent motion, heavily fleshed nudes, dramatic use of light and shadow, and rich sensuous pigments in his paintings?

What steps did the Spanish monarchy take in the first half of the seventeenth century to reverse Spain's decline? How successful were these efforts?

Please define the following key terms. -Rembrandt van Rijn

Why were women the most prevalent victims of Europe's witch craze? What does this reveal about the social climate at the time, and especially, ideas about gender?

What was true of William Shakespeare?

What did Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau achieve?

The Russian nobility was known as boyars.

____ emphasized clarity, simplicity, balance, and harmony.

What is a component of the Baroque style of art?

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations.

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires.

The Civilization of the Greeks.

The Hellenistic World.

The Roman Republic.

The Roman Empire.

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World.

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750–1000.

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages.

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power.

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century.

Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance.

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century.

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500–1800.

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science.

The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment.

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change.

A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon.

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society.

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815–1850.

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850–1871.

Mass Society in an “Age of Progress,” 1871–1894.

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894–1914.

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

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919–1939.

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II.

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945–1965.

Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965–1985.

After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985)

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