AP World History Chapter 17 Flashcards

6010554663	In characterizing the period from 1450 to 1750 in the West, which of the following statements is NOT accurate	A) What was once an agricultural society had become a predominantly manufacturing economy.	0
6010554664	Which of the following sequences lists the major developments of Western civilization in proper sequence	C) Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, absolute monarchy, Enlightenment	1
6010556835	Which of the following statements about the Renaissance is NOT accurate	B) The Renaissance was largely an artistic movement that began in Italy.	2
6010556836	Which of the following was NOT a participant in the 15th-century Italian Renaissance	D) Giotto	3
6010556837	Which of the following statements concerning Italian humanism is most accurate	A) Humanists focused on humankind as the center of intellectual and artistic endeavor.	4
6010568176	Which of the following was NOT an impact of the Renaissance on politics and commerce	B) Under humanist influence, wars among Italian city-states became less frequent and violent.	5
6010568177	Which of the following accounts in part for the decline of the Italian Renaissance circa 1500	C) French and Spanish monarchs invaded the peninsula, cutting down on political independence.	6
6010569708	What was one of the primary differences between the Northern and Italian Renaissances	B) Northern humanists focused more on religion than their Italian counterparts.	7
6010569709	Johannes Gutenberg was responsible for	D) the invention of movable type in the West.	8
6010571481	What was the European-style family pattern that emerged in the 15th century	D) Nuclear families, late marriage ages	9
6010571482	What determined the age of marriage for many people in Europe	B) Access to real property	10
6010571483	By the 16th century, at what age did most Europeans marry	E) 28-29	11
6010574019	Who is generally credited with initiating the Protestant Reformation in 1517	D) Martin Luther	12
6010574020	Which of the following was NOT a religious proposition advanced by Martin Luther	D) Priests should practice celibacy.	13
6010575875	Which of the following statements most accurately describes the reason why Luther picked up widespread support among the German elite	C) German princes who turned Protestant could increase their independence from the emperor, seize church lands, and control the church in their territories.	14
6010575876	Which of the following reasons suggests why common people supported the Lutheran Reformation	B) Lutheranism sanctioned money-making and other earthly pursuits more wholeheartedly than did traditional Catholicism.	15
6010578393	What was the church established by Henry VIII in England	D) Anglican	16
6010578394	The theological foundation of Jean Calvin's Protestantism was	C) predestination.	17
6010581199	What was the political impact of Calvinism	D) Calvinists sought the participation of all believers in church administration, which encouraged the idea of a wider access to government.	18
6010583350	Which of the following areas was NOT successfully defended by the Catholic Reformation	A) The Netherlands	19
6010583351	What new religious order was associated with the Catholic Reformation	B) Jesuits	20
6010585620	The Edict of Nantes, issued in France in 1598	A) granted tolerance to Protestants and helped end the French civil wars of religion.	21
6010585621	Which of the following was NOT a result of the Thirty Years War	B) The treaty that ended the war established Spain as the principal power of western Europe.	22
6010587941	The religious wars that followed the Protestant Reformation led generally to	C) a limited acceptance of the idea of religious pluralism.	23
6010598184	Which of the following states fell back from European ascendancy following the religious wars	B) Spain	24
6010603868	Which of the following statements most accurately describes a change in popular mentality as a result of the Protestant Reformation	C) Protestants and Catholics considered the family in more positive terms, not simply as an institution necessary because of human lust.	25
6010603869	Which of the following was NOT typical of the commercial revolution of the 16th century	D) Significant reduction in prices encouraging consumer spending	26
6010603870	The average Western peasant or artisan owned about how many times more "things" than his or her counterpart in southeastern Europe	B) Five	27
6010606481	Inflation and commercialization in the West produced a group of people without access to producing property called the	C) proletariat.	28
6010609613	Which of the following was a Western response to the commercial revolution of the 16th century that was proletarian in outlook	C) A wave of popular protests resulting in uprisings caused by social tensions	29
6010609614	Who used astronomical observation and mathematical calculation to disprove the Hellenistic belief that the Earth was the center of the universe	B) Copernicus	30
6010612615	William Harvey was responsible for what discovery during the Scientific Revolution	D) The circular movement of blood in animals	31
6010612616	What was Isaac Newton's work published in 1687 that drew various theories together into a framework of natural laws	B) Principia	32
6010612660	Which of the following statements most accurately summarizes the view of Deists	A) While there may be a divinity, its role is only to set natural laws in motion.	33
6010615497	How did the Western view of science compare with that of other civilizations	C) 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.	34
6010615498	All of the following were typical of 16th century absolute monarchy EXCEPT	D) the destruction of provincial councils.	35
6010619015	The monarch most associated with absolute monarchy was	D) Louis XIV of France.	36
6010619016	Which of the following descriptions most accurately defines mercantilism	B) Mercantilism held that government should promote the internal economy in order to improve tax revenues and to limit imports from other nations.	37
6010621654	Besides France, where else did absolute monarchy develop during the period 1450 to 1750	D) Prussia	38
6010621655	Which of the following states stood apart from the trend toward absolute monarchy in the 17th century and retained a parliamentary regime	B) Britain	39
6010623939	What monarch is associated with the establishment of enlightened despotism in Prussia in the middle of the 18th century	D) Frederick the Great	40
6010623940	The aftermath of the Scientific Revolution spilled over into a new intellectual movement in the 18th century called the	B) Enlightenment.	41
6010626324	Adam Smith's economic theory advocated	C) that governments avoid regulation in favor of the operation of individual initiative and market forces.	42
6010626325	Which of the following was NOT a basic principle of the Enlightenment	C) If people were not controlled, general social decline was inevitable.	43
6010628059	Which of the following changes associated with treatment of children was associated with the Enlightenment	A) Parents became more interested in freer movement and greater interaction for young children.	44
6010628060	How did agriculture change in the late 17th century	D) New technology and better stock-breeding methods resulted in higher productivity.	45
6010630710	Which of the following statements most accurately describes the nature of manufacturing in the later 18th century	C) 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.	46
6010630711	In 1733, John Kay of England introduced	B) the flying shuttle to automate weaving.	47
6010635590	Which of the following statements concerning mid-18th-century Western society is most accurate	A) Agricultural changes, commercialism, and manufacturing had combined to produce a rapidly growing population in the West.	48
6010637926	By 1750, the strands of commercial, cultural, and political changes in Europe had been combined to create	A) an unstable political environment that would eventually regress backwards.	49