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| 610240544 | Which two countries in west Europe came to occupy leadership in Europe and the known world by 1700? | D) France and England | 0 | |
| 610240545 | According to Mercantilist theory, colonies | B) Should serve as markets and sources of raw materials for their mother country. | 1 | |
| 610240546 | In the 18th century, class distinctions | B) Became sharper | 2 | |
| 610240547 | The outstanding economic development affecting Europe was the expansion of the | D) Global economy and the fact that Europe became more wealthy than any other region of the globe. | 3 | |
| 610240548 | IE Foreign Trade was important to GB and France because | D) All of the above. | 4 | |
| 610240549 | IE which of the following was more important to western europe as a trading area with Asia? | C) America | 5 | |
| 610240550 | The transatlantic slave trade IE was conducted by the | A) English and French | 6 | |
| 610240551 | Over the course of the IE bourgeoise and aristocratic wealth merged through all of the following means except | D) Riot and Revolution | 7 | |
| 610240552 | When a branch of the bourbon family succeeded the Hapsburgs to the throne of Spain, Spain | C) Experienced more efficient administration. | 8 | |
| 610494609 | Following the War of Spanish Succession and the death of Louis XIV, the development of both nations shared sup. parallels. Both | D) All of the Above | 9 | |
| 610494610 | Under the domestic system in England | B) Spinning and Weaving of yarn and cloth was done in the worker's homes. | 10 | |
| 610494611 | French Parlements and the English Parliament | B) Were very different, with the French system working as a court of law and the English one passing laws. | 11 | |
| 610494612 | All of the following are true of IE Parliaments in England except | C) Parliament was an honest and efficient form of government. | 12 | |
| 610494613 | The South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles | D) Left Britain and France with huge national debts, from which only Britain could fully recover. | 13 | |
| 610494614 | Robert Waypole became, in effect, the architect of cabinet government in England. Cabinet government is | A) The executive leaders of that government are members of the legislature. | 14 | |
| 610494615 | The Asiento, granted to the English in the Peace of Utrecht, gave them | B) The exclusive right to sell African slaves in the Spanish colonies of the New World. | 15 | |
| 610494616 | The War of Austrian succesion began in 1740 when | B) Frederick II of Prussia invaded Silesia | 16 | |
| 610494617 | The War of Austrian Succession proved that | D) Prussia's acquisition of Silesia made it a great power for the first time in History. | 17 | |
| 610494618 | The Diplomatic Revolution of 1756 saw these new realignments of traditional relationships | C) England/Prussia vs. France/Austria | 18 | |
| 610494619 | The Seven Year's War began in | A) America | 19 | |
| 610494620 | All of the following are true of French and British enpires on the eve of the 7 years' war except | C) In North America, The British were more successful than the French in garnering Indian support. | 20 | |
| 610494621 | As a result of the peace treaties ending the seven years' war all of the following occured except | C) France suffered a commercial calamity, as it lost it's trade with America and India | 21 | |
| 610494622 | The Second enclosure movement occuring in England was designed to | C) Increase and consolidate crop lands | 22 | |
| 610494623 | The English Navigation acts were designed to | C) Weaken Dutch trade and encourage that of England's. | 23 | |
| 610494624 | Most of the technological advancements of the early Industrial revolution occured in | A) Textiles. | 24 | |
| 610494625 | Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes both did the following except | D) Argued that one must start with definitions and then discover what further knowledge could be deduced logically. | 25 | |
| 610494626 | In the inductive method, we proceed from the | A) Particular to the General. | 26 | |
| 610494627 | Key to understanding Francis Bacon's thought are his claims that | B) One should use inductive thinking to acquire knowledge, and it should be useful. | 27 | |
| 610494628 | One effect of Descartes general philosophy was to create belief in a vast world of nature that could be reduced to | D) A mathematical form. | 28 | |
| 610494629 | The most astonishing scientific revolution of the seventeenth century | B) Took place in physics and astronomy. | 29 | |
| 610494630 | Copernicus' great contribution to our understanding of the universe was to | A) Theorize that the sun was at the center of our solar system. | 30 | |
| 610494631 | John Kepler's laws of planetary motion | C) Showed that the planets moved in elliptical rather than circular fashion. | 31 | |
| 610494632 | Galileo, looking at the sky through his telescope, observed that | B) Heavenly bodies were made of the same kind of material as the earth. | 32 | |
| 610494633 | Issac Newton's greatest discovery or insight was | A) Universal gravitation. | 33 | |
| 610494634 | The founding of the Royal study of London and the Academy of Sciences in France | C) Helped to institutionalize the pursuit of natural knowledge. | 34 | |
| 610494635 | Baruch Spinoza did all of the following except | A) Reject the humanistic thought of his day. | 35 | |
| 610494636 | Locke's deepest book, an Essay Concerning The Human Understanding (1690) concluded that | A) True knowledge was derived from experience. | 36 | |
| 610494637 | The philosophy of Natural law contends that | D) All of the above. | 37 | |
| 610494638 | Locke emphasized that sound government rested on | B) The right of property | 38 | |
| 610494639 | The Enlightenment of the eighteenth century reffered to | B) The belief that Europe had emerged from a time of barbarism and darkness. | 39 |
