test chapters 17-18

Question 1

In the 17th century, King Louis XIV had 1. strengths and 2. weaknesses

Answer 1

1. large industrious populace, good farming, international commerce
2. emptied of “Righteousness that exalted a nation”

Question 2

nickname for Louis XIV

Answer 2

The Sun King

Question 3

He ruled in place of the young Louis XIV (died in 1661)

Answer 3

Cardinal Mazarin

Question 4

Louis XIV took control at _____ years old

Answer 4

23

Question 5

Louis XIV was known for _____ and _______

Answer 5

pomp and splendor

Question 6

government by men who ist at desks

Answer 6

Bureaucracy

Question 7

Louis representative

Answer 7

Intendant

Question 8

French term for middle class

Answer 8

Bourgeoisie

Question 9

the nobles

Answer 9

Aristocracy

Question 10

minister of Finance

Answer 10

Jean Baptiste Colbert

Question 11

1500s claimed territory in America for France

Answer 11

Verrazano and Cartier

Question 12

“the father of new France”

Answer 12

Samuel de Champlain

Question 13

the first permanent French colony in america

Answer 13

Quebec

Question 14

Explored central Mississippi river

Answer 14

Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet

Question 15

claimed the entire Mississippi valley for France

Answer 15

Robert Cavalier de la Salle

Question 16

a European coalition against France

Answer 16

League of Augsburg

Question 17

the war of the league of Augsburg was end by the treaty of ________

Answer 17

treaty of Ryswick in 1697; (it was also the status quo ante bellum)

Question 18

the war of the Spanish succession

Question 19

a movement that attempted to apply unaided human philosophy to all areas of man’s life in order to establish a new social order

Answer 19

the age of enlightenment

Question 20

the father of the enlightenment

Answer 20

voltaire

Question 21

man’s reason is the sole criteria for truth

Answer 21

rationalism

Question 22

the father of the French romanticism

Answer 22

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(he said man is naturally good, but society is bad); books: the social contract, Emile

Question 23

man’s emotions and imagination is the basis truth

Answer 23

romanticism

Question 24

Editor of the Encyclopedia (a multivolume work that attempted to reorganize all human knowledge from the perspective of rationalism)

Answer 24

Denis Diderot

Question 25

showed more interest in personal pleasure than government

Answer 25

Louis XV

Question 26

"neither the education or the character for the job"

Answer 26

Louis XVI

Question 27

1. first estate 2. second estate 3. third estate

Answer 27

1. the clergy 2. the nobility 3. everyone else

Question 28

nobility vs. king

Answer 28

aristocratic revolution