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| 4098176912 | The Protestant Reformation is said to have begun with: | Martin Luther's rejection of papal authority. | 0 | |
| 4098181615 | Unlike the Roman Catholic Church and Martin Luther, John Calvin: | taught that salvation was predestined. | 1 | |
| 4098185761 | Contemporaneous with the Scientific Revolution was the movement known as the Enlightenment. This movement: | taught that human reason could discover the laws that governed social behavior. | 2 | |
| 4098189785 | The French class known as the bourgeoisie is best described as: | the city dwellers who owned businesses. | 3 | |
| 4098196271 | The Dutch government's method of funding businesses for overseas exploration was to grant companies monopolies over trade in as area. The companies then sold shares to spread the risk. This practice is known as: | using a joint-stock company. | 4 | |
| 4098200146 | One impact of the growth of manufacturing in urban areas between 1500 and 1750 was that: | many rural poor moved to the towns and cities in hopes of better jobs. | 5 | |
| 4098206152 | Unlike in other parts of the world, young men and women in early modern Europe: | often chose their own spouses. | 6 | |
| 4098208838 | For the most part, early modern Europe was made up of: | city-states, principalities, and loose federations of states. | 7 | |
| 4098210311 | The English Civil War: | was caused by Charles I ignoring limits on his powers and the rights of the Parliament. | 8 | |
| 4098217564 | Which of the following would be a good example of both a theme park for royal absolutism and Baroque architecture? | The palace of Louis XIV at Versailles. | 9 | |
| 4098222290 | As the cost of warfare, in both human and financial terms, increased in the early eighteenth century, European states: | began to form temporary alliances to prevent any one state from becoming too powerful. | 10 | |
| 4098226746 | By the seventeenth century, Spain, which had been the most powerful European state in the sixteenth century: | spent so heavily on wars and its growing empire that it ended up bankrupt. | 11 | |
| 4098230922 | Which of the following is true of the period from 1500 to 1750? | Although there was broad economic growth in Europe, life for peasants and laborers did not improve much. | 12 | |
| 4098237169 | Papacy | the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, of which the pope is the head. | 13 | |
| 4098239342 | Indulgence | the forgiveness of punishment due for past sins, granted by the Catholic Church authorizes as a reward for a pious act. | 14 | |
| 4098242643 | Protestant Reformation | religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It resulted in the "protesters" forming several new Christian denominations, including the Lutheran and Reformed Churches and the Church of England. | 15 | |
| 4098251138 | Catholic Reformation | religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church, begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical thinking and discipline. | 16 | |
| 4098262109 | Witch-hunt | the pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft, especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. | 17 | |
| 4098265576 | Scientific Revolution | the intellectual movement in Europe, initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics, that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science. | 18 | |
| 4098274274 | Enlightenment | a philosophical movement in eighteenth century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics. | 19 | |
| 4098283412 | Bourgeoisie | in early modern Europe, the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing, finance, commerce, and allied professions. | 20 | |
| 4098301314 | Joint-stock Company | a business, often backed by a government charter, that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors. | 21 | |
| 4098307210 | Stock Exchange | a place where shares in a company or business enterprise are bought and sold. | 22 | |
| 4098311202 | Gentry | the class of landholding families in England below the aristocracy. | 23 | |
| 4098313219 | Little Ice Age | a century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590's. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable. | 24 | |
| 4098320090 | Deforestation | the removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves. | 25 | |
| 4098321973 | Holy Roman Empire | loose federation of mostly German states and principalities, headed by an emperor elected by the princes. It lasted from 962 to 1806. | 26 | |
| 4098327101 | Habsburg | a powerful European family that provided many Holy Roman emperors, founded that Austrian Empire, and ruled sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. | 27 | |
| 4098332625 | English Civil War | (1642-1649) A conflict over royal versus parliamentary rights, caused by King Charles I's arrest of his parliamentary critics and ending with his execution. | 28 | |
| 4098339516 | Versailles | the huge palace built for French king Louis XIV south of Paris. It symbolized both French power and the triumph of royal authority over the French nobility. | 29 | |
| 4098346042 | Balance of Power | the policy in international relations by which, beginning in the eighteenth century, the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful. | 30 | |
| 4098351612 | Tax Farmer | a system for collecting taxes and other state revenues from the population. | 31 |
