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| 548136704 | In characterizing the period from 1450 to 1750 in the West, which of the following statements is NOT accurate? | What was once an agricultural society had become a predominantly manufacturing economy. | 0 | |
| 548136705 | Which of the following sequences lists the major developments of Western civilization in proper sequence? | Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, absolute monarchy, Enlightenment | 1 | |
| 548136706 | Which of the following statements about the Renaissance is NOT accurate? | The Renaissance failed to develop any new ideas concerning political organization. | 2 | |
| 548136707 | Which of the following accounts in part for the decline of the Italian Renaissance circa 1500? | French and Spanish monarch invaded the peninsula, cutting down on political independence. | 3 | |
| 548136708 | What was one of the primary differences between the Northern and Italian Renaissances? | Northern humanists focused more on religion than their Italian counterparts. | 4 | |
| 548136709 | Johannes Gutenberg was responsible for | the invention of the movable type in the West. | 5 | |
| 548136710 | What was the European style family pattern that emerged in the 15th century? | Nuclear families, late marriage ages | 6 | |
| 548136711 | Who is generally credited with initiating the Protestant Reformation in 1517? | Martin Luther | 7 | |
| 548136712 | Which of the following was NOT a religious proposition advanced by Martin Luther? | Priests should practice celibacy. | 8 | |
| 548136713 | which of the following statements most accurately describes the reason why Luther picked up widespread support among the German elite? | German princes who turned Protestant could increase their independence from the emperor, seize church lands and control the church in their territories. | 9 | |
| 548136714 | What was the church established by Henry VIII in England? | Anglican | 10 | |
| 548136715 | The theological foundation of Jean Calvin's Protestantism was | predestination | 11 | |
| 548136716 | Areas successfully defended by the Catholic reformation: | Poland, Southern Europe, Hungary and Iberia | 12 | |
| 548136717 | The Edict of Nantes, issued in France in 1598, | granted tolerance to Protestants and helped end the French civil wars of religion. | 13 | |
| 548136718 | Results of the Thirty Years War: | Reduced German prosperity and power for a full century; the treaty that ended the war granted political independence to the Protestant Netherlands; population of the German territories was reduced by almost 60%; and the war established the principle of territorial toleration. | 14 | |
| 548136719 | The religious wars that followed the Protestant Reformation led generally to | a limited acceptance of the idea of religious pluralism. | 15 | |
| 548136720 | Inflation and commercialization in the West produced a group of people without access to producing property called the | proletariat | 16 | |
| 548136721 | Which of the following was a Western response to the commercial revolution of the 16th century that was proletarian in outlook? | a wave of popular protests resulting in uprisings caused by social tensions | 17 | |
| 548136722 | Who use astronomical observation and mathematical calculation to disprove the Hellenistic belief that the Earth was the center of the universe? | Copernicus | 18 | |
| 548136723 | How did the Western view of science compare with that of other civilizations? | The West was not alone in developing crucial scientific data, but its thinkers were the only ones to see science in broader philosophical terms as central to intellectual life. | 19 | |
| 548136724 | What were typical of 16th century absolute monarchies? | a professionalized army; the cessation of parliamentary government; a growing bureaucracy; and constant warfare among monarchs. | 20 | |
| 548136725 | The monarch most associated with absolute monarchy was | Louis XIV of France | 21 | |
| 548136726 | Which state stood apart from the trend toward absolute monarchy in the 17th century and retained a parliamentary regime? | Britain | 22 | |
| 548136727 | The aftermath of the Scientific Revolution spilled over into a new intellectual movement in the 18th century called the | Enlightenment | 23 | |
| 548136728 | Which of the following was NOT a basic principle of the Enlightenment? | If people were not controlled, general social decline was inevitable. | 24 | |
| 548136729 | How did agriculture change in the late 17th century? | New technology and better stock breeding methods resulted in higher productivity | 25 | |
| 548136730 | Which of the following statements most accurately describes the nature of manufacturing in the later 18th century? | The 18th century witnessed a rapid spread of household production of textiles and metal products, mostly by rural workers who alternated manufacturing with some agriculture. | 26 | |
| 548136731 | In what ways did the commercial revolution of the 16th century change the social structure of the West? | The merchants became more wealthy and proletariat's became poor and went into poverty and moved into the cities. | 27 |
