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The patriotic enthusiasm and pride of the English during the Elizabeth era is best characterized by the


A) philosophy of John Locke.
B) plays of William Shakespeare.
C) New Model Army.
D) Glorious Revolution.
E) King James version of the Bible.

F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

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The Baroque artist who completed Saint Peter's Basilica and the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa was


A) Rembrandt van Rijn.
B) Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
C) El Greco.
D) Artemisia Gentileschi.
E) Peter Paul Rubens.

F) A) and D)
G) None of the above

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Talk about : -James II

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Talk about : -divine-right monarchy

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The Fronde, an uprising in France that nearly overthrew Louis XIV early in his reign, a revolt of the French


A) peasants.
B) clergy.
C) nobility.
D) urban workers.
E) all of the above.

F) C) and E)
G) B) and D)

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Talk about : -Russian serfdom

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Talk about : -Bishop Jacques Bossuet

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Talk about : -Louis XIV's wars

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Louis XIV, also known as the Sun King, w...

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Talk about : -Table of Ranks

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Talk about : -Baroque

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Talk about : -Peace of Utrecht

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The French royal court of Versailles was located just outside the city of Marseilles.

A) True
B) False

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Scandinavia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed


A) Denmark expand so as to dominate the Baltic.
B) Sweden become a second-rate power after the Great Northern War.
C) Sweden and Denmark join forces to defeat and occupy Poland in 1660.
D) the economic dominance of Sweden over the rest of northern Europe.
E) the conquest of Sweden by Norway.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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Frederick William the Great Elector built Brandenburg-Prussia into a significant European power by


A) establishing religious uniformity in his kingdom, as evidenced in his eviction of the Huguenots.
B) freeing the peasants from the dominion of the nobles.
C) using his army whenever possible to gain his ends.
D) making the General War Commissariat the bureaucratic machine of his state.
E) allying Prussia with England and Russia against France and the Holy Roman Empire.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

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Define absolutism. To what extent can France's government in the seventeenth century be labeled an absolute monarchy?

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Why were women the prevalent victims of Europe's witch craze?

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As a result of the Glorious Revolution, by the beginning of the eighteenth century, Parliament possessed supreme political authority in Britain and the monarch had become merely a figurehead.

A) True
B) False

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Talk about : -Levellers

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Imperial general Albrect von Wallenstein


A) was assassinated on the orders of Emperor Ferdinand.
B) was killed at the Battle of Nördlingen.
C) betrayed the imperial cause by joining the French army.
D) resigned his commission when it was revealed he was a secret convert to Lutheranism.
E) became the ruler of the Baltic port of Hamburg with the Peace of Westphalia.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

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As Louis XIII's chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu was most successful in


A) evicting the Huguenot presence from France after the La Rochelle rebellion.
B) expanding the political and social rights of the Huguenots.
C) creating a reservoir of funds for the treasury.
D) defeating the French nobility's attempt to replace him.
E) strengthening the central role of the monarchy in domestic and foreign policy.

F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

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