Unit 4- Early Modern World

Question 0

Edict of Nantes

Answer 0

Recognized Catholicism as the official religion of France, but it also gave the Huguenots the right to worship and to enjoy all political privileges

Question 1

According to mercantilists, the prosperity of a nation depended on…

Answer 1

A large supply of silver and gold

Question 2

How did the Dutch try to dominate the clove trade?

Answer 2

By limiting cultivation of the spice to one island and forcing others to stop growing and trading the spice

Question 3

Louis XIV maintained complete authority as monarch by…

Answer 3

removing threats from power.

Question 4

Peter the Great

Answer 4

• Russian czar
• absolutist monarch who claimed the divine right to rule
• reorganized the Russian army
• was determined to westernize Russia
• built St. Petersburg

Question 5

The work of William Shakespeare is the best example of … literature.

Answer 5

Dramatic and tragedy

Question 6

The English seized … and renamed it New York.

Answer 6

the colony of New Netherland

Question 7

… controlled the Spice Islands, until driven out by the Dutch.

Answer 7

The Portuguese

Question 8

The … movement had a profound effect on education.

Answer 8

humanism

Question 9

The … pattern of trade connected Europe, Africa, and Asia to American continents.

Answer 9

Triangular trade

Question 10

… were known to Europeans as the Spice Islands.

Answer 10

The Moluccas

Question 11

What was the name of the set of principles that dominated economic thought in the 17th century?

Answer 11

Mercantilism

Question 12

What countries were involved in the Thirty Years’ War?

Answer 12

All major European powers other than England became involved

Question 13

What did Oliver Cromwell’s defeat of the kings forces allow him to do?

Answer 13

• have Charles I executed
• dispersed Parliament
• set up a military dictatorship

Question 14

What did Christian Humanists believe?

Answer 14

they thought that if people read the classics, especially the basic works of Christianity, they would become more pious

Question 15

What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?

Answer 15

Defined a line that would extend from north to south through the Atlantic Ocean and the easternmost part of the South American continent; was signed to resolve the concerns between Spain and Portugal

Question 16

What happened as a result of the publication of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses

Answer 16

• Luther was excommunicated from the Church

- Lutheranism was formed

Question 17

Absolutism

Answer 17

A system of government in which a ruler holds total power

Question 18

Divine rights of kings

Answer 18

The belief that kings received their power from God and are responsible only to God

Question 19

What was the name of the journey of slaves from Africa to America?

Answer 19

The Middle Passage

Question 20

Who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India?

Answer 20

Bartholomeu Dias

Question 21

What was the first Protestant Faith?

Answer 21

Lutheranism

Question 22

What is Christine de Pizan best known for?

Answer 22

Her works written in defense of women

Question 23

Why were European rulers and merchants determined to gain control of the islands of Southeast Asia?

Answer 23

They wanted to control the Spice Islands and the spice trade

Question 24

Glorious Revolution

Answer 24

when William and Mary ‘invaded’ England and overthrew James II with almost no bloodshed

Question 25

Peace of Westphalia

Answer 25

• officially ended the Thirty Years’ War in Germany in 1648

- stated that all German states could determine their own religion

Question 26

Who was Cardinal Richelieu?

Answer 26

as Louis XIII’s chief minister, he had Catholic France join Protestant Sweden in fighting the Catholic Hapsburgs

Question 27

Who were the Huguenots?

Answer 27

French Protestants influenced by John Calvin

Question 28

Why was Leonardo da Vinci an excellent example of Renaissance Italy’s social order?

Answer 28

he is an excellent example of the new view of humans beings: the well-rounded person was capable of achievements in many areas of life
*da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician