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prussia/russia-despotism in russia

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