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| 536494261 | All of the following are true of 17th century Brandenburg-Prussia except | it had rich mineral deposits | |
| 536494262 | After 1415, the Electors of Brandenburg were always which family? | Hohenzollern | |
| 536494263 | Fredrick William, the Great Elector, learned from the Thirty Years' War that the security of his state must rely mainly upon | the support of his army | |
| 536494264 | All of the following are true of Prussia's social structure except | it was easier for the bourgeoisie to attain noble status than in France | |
| 536494265 | The first Russian ruler to assume the title of tsar was | Ivan the Terrible | |
| 536494266 | The Time of Troubles (1604-1613) was a period during which | there was a civil war | |
| 536494267 | Peter's subjugation of the Russian Orthodox church to the control of the government | had parallels with Henry VIII's creation of the Anglican church | |
| 536494268 | Peter the Great financed his reforms by imposing a large number of new taxes, the burden of which fell mainly on the | peasants | |
| 536494269 | The primary reasons for Peter's "westernizing" of Russia was | his desire to strengthen the Russian army and state | |
| 536494270 | The partitions of Poland symbolized all the following except | the triumph of Polish nationalism and reform efforts | |
| 536494271 | The domestic system employed in the early modern European economy was | a system of rural household industry | |
| 536494272 | Cromwell devised a written constitution for England called | the Instrument of Government | |
| 536494273 | Over the course of the 18th century, bourgeois and aristocratic wealth merged through all the following means except | riot and revolution | |
| 536494274 | The wealth accumulated in western Europe during the 18th century | brought a general rise in the standard of living | |
| 536494275 | As the transatlantic trade expanded, western Europe's trade with eastern Europe | contributed to the spread of serfdom in eastern Europe by encouraging the creation of an export-oriented, plantation-like agricultural system | |
| 536494276 | The richest of all the world's sugar supplying colonies was | Santa Domingo | |
| 536494277 | In the 18th century which of the following was more important to western Europe as a trading area in Asia? | 'merica | |
| 536494278 | Asia was almost useless as a market for Europe's manufactures because | Asians had no desire for European manufactured products | |
| 536494279 | Which of the following is true of 18th century Europe's population? | Britain had fewer large cities than either Spain or Italy | |
| 536494280 | The increase of Europe's wealth in the 1800s was primarily brought about by | B and C steam engine and power-driven machinery & growth of large factories and great manufacturing cities | |
| 536494281 | In the 18th century, class distinctions | became sharper | |
| 536494282 | All of the following are true of carnivals, an important feature of 17th and 18th century popular culture except | they went on for several weeks preceding Christmas, and signified the preparation for the incarnation of Christ | |
| 536494283 | In the 18th century people of all classes and cultures shared the same | religion and diseases | |
| 536494284 | Popular culture is difficult for historians to reconstruct because | it was predominantly oral and is therefore difficult to research | |
| 536494285 | All of the following are true about elite and popular culture except | popular culture was largely written or printed | |
| 536494286 | Which two countries in western Europe came to occupy a position of leadership in Europe as a whole by about 1700? | France and England | |
| 536494287 | The Duke of Orleans, who as regent for the young king came to power in France after the death of Louis XIV in 1715 | conceded greater influence to the nobility | |
| 536494288 | The 18th century French parlements and the English parliament | were very different with the French institution acting as a court of law while the English one passed law | |
| 536494289 | All of the following are true of the 18th century British parliament except | parliament was an honest and efficient form of government | |
| 536494290 | In 18th century England the Whig and Tory parties | ceased to have much meaning after 1714 | |
| 536494291 | The Whigs resisted the return of the Stuarts became James III would | all of the above | |
| 536494292 | The South Sea and Mississippi bubbles | encouraged business enterprise based upon individual ownership and partnerships | |
| 536494293 | In the aftermath of the bubbles | England instituted the sinking fund, while France repudiated much of its debt | |
| 536494294 | Robert Walpole became in effect the architect of cabinet government in England | the executive leaders or ministers of that government are members of the legislature | |
| 536494295 | 18th century warfare was characterized by | the used of soldiers recruited from countries other than a particular army's national affiliation | |
| 536494296 | All the following are true of the 18th century warfare except | generals strove to encircle and annihilate their opponents | |
| 536494297 | The War of Austrian Succession began in 1740 when | Frederick II of Prussia invaded Silesia | |
| 536494298 | The Diplomatic Revolution of 1756 saw these new realignments of traditional relationships | England/Prussia vs. France/Austria | |
| 536494299 | The British colonists in America in 1754 | relied on Britain for military action against France | |
| 536494300 | The Frenchman Dupleix's plans for India after 1748 | sought to increase the French East India Company's capital | |
| 536494301 | As a result of the peace treaties of 1763 ending the Seven Year's War al of the following occurred except | France suffered a commercial calamity losing its trade with America and India | |
| 536494302 | The Enlightenment of the 18th century referred to | the belief that Europe had merged from a time of barbarism and darkness | |
| 536494303 | Enlightenment thinkers generally believed in progress, reason, science, and civilization, but they took divergent and inconsistent position on many issues. Which of the following statements is/are true? | all of the above | |
| 536494304 | All of the following characterize Enlightenment though except | true progress could only be achieve by the people themselves, without the assistance of the state | |
| 536494305 | Rousseau's ideas included all the following except | the true and only possible expression of the general will is democracy | |
| 536494306 | Voltaire's famous polemical slogan "Ecrasez, I'nfame!" or "Crush the infamous things" referred to | religious bigotry and superstition | |
| 536494307 | Voltaire and Montesquieu both | championed rationalized, absolutists government | |
| 536494308 | The great French Encyclopedia completed between 1751 and 1772 | was conceived of as a positive force for social progress | |
| 536494309 | Montesquieu's influential doctrine of the separation and balance of powers suggested that good government could be obtained by | all of the above | |
| 536494310 | The 18th century philosophes were a group of writers who | were popularizers and publicists | |
| 536494311 | All of the following are true about 18th century freemasonry except | Masonic lodges generally held their meetings in public | |
| 536494312 | The 18th century Pietists and Methodists stressed | the individuals inner spiritual consciousness | |
| 536494313 | During the 18th century "enlightened" people typically imagined God as | an inconceivably intelligent Watchmakers | |
| 536494314 | The 18th century Enlightenment embodied all of the following except | skepticism about the regularity and harmony of nature | |
| 538665803 | In Russia, Enlightenment did all of the following except | produced several Russian thinkersinfluential throughout Europe | |
| 538665804 | Under Catherine the Great, serfdom in Russia | increased in size and became more burdensome | |
| 538665805 | In foreign affairs Catherine's achievements included all of the following except | conquests that included a port on the Baltic Sea | |
| 538665806 | In assessing Catherine's achievements one could conclude that | no ruler could have corrected the social evils of 18th century Russia | |
| 538665807 | All of the following are true of enlightened despotism except | it emphasized the divine origin of monarchy | |
| 538665808 | By the end of the era of enlightened despotism just prior to the French Revolution | all of the above | |
| 538665809 | Characteristics of the demands of the age of democratic revolution between 1760 and the French Revolution were | demands for liberty and equality | |
| 538665810 | The Enlightenment of the 18th century referred to | the belief that Europe had emerged from a time of barbarism and darkness | |
| 538665811 | The 18th century Enlightenment embodied all the of following except | skepticism about the regularity and harmony of nature |
