Deck 3: State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Question 1

In what sense was the seventeenth century a "golden age" for the Dutch Republic?

Answer 1

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Question 2

Why were women the most prevalent victims of Europe's witch craze? What does this reveal about the social climate at the time, and especially, ideas about gender?

Answer 2

Answers will vary.

Question 3

define the following term:
"divine right"

Answer 3

Answers will vary.

Question 4

define the following term:
Cardinal Richelieu

Question 5

What were the long-term consequences of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)?

Question 6

define the following term:
Thirty Years' War

Question 7

Compare the reigns of Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia and Peter the Great of Russia. How are their policies similar? How are they different?

Question 8

define the following term:
Peace of Westphalia

Question 9

define the following term:
Jean Bodin

Question 10

Compare and contrast Mannerism and the Baroque. What explains the popularity of Baroque art and music, particularly in Catholic Europe?

Question 11

define the following term:
witches

Question 12

Define absolutism. Is it accurate to describe the French national government in the seventeenth century as an absolute monarchy?

Question 13

How and why did the English Parliament resist the Stuart's efforts to rule as absolute monarchs?

Question 14

define the following term:
Cardinal Mazarin

Question 15

What were the most important demographic and economic trends in Europe from 1560 to 1650? What were the social and political consequences of those trends?

Question 16

What steps did the Spanish monarchy take in the first half of the seventeenth century to reverse Spain's decline? How successful were these efforts?

Question 17

How did the Ottoman Empire fare in the seventeenth century? Why were Ottomans no longer a credible threat to Europe by the end of the century?

Question 18

define the following term:
Sun King

Question 19

What steps did Louis XIV take to limit the power and autonomy of the French aristocracy?

Question 20

define the following term:
absolutism

Question 21

define the following term:
Junkers

Question 22

define the following term:
the Romanovs

Question 23

define the following term:
Louis XIV's wars

Question 24

define the following term:
Versailles

Question 25

define the following term:
Peter the Great

Question 26

define the following term:
Olivares

Question 27

define the following term:
Louis XIV

Question 28

define the following term:
the house of Orange

Question 29

define the following term:
Philip III

Question 30

define the following term:
Edict of Fontainebleau

Question 31

define the following term:
States General

Question 32

define the following term:
Vienna and the Ottoman Empire

Question 33

define the following term:
Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Question 34

define the following term:
the Orthodox Church

Question 35

define the following term:
boyars

Question 36

define the following term:
Great Northern War

Question 37

define the following term:
Frederick William the Great Elector

Question 38

define the following term:
procurator

Question 39

define the following term:
the Fronde

Question 40

define the following term:
Saint Petersburg

Question 41

define the following term:
John Locke

Question 42

define the following term:
James II

Question 43

define the following term:
Rembrandt van Rijn

Question 44

define the following term:
English Civil War

Question 45

define the following term:
the Restoration

Question 46

define the following term:
Amsterdam

Question 47

define the following term:
Lope de Vega

Question 48

define the following term:
Mannerism

Question 49

define the following term:
William Shakespeare

Question 50

define the following term:
Baroque

Question 51

define the following term:
King James I

Question 52

define the following term:
Glorious Revolution

Question 53

define the following term:
Thomas Hobbes

Question 54

define the following term:
Puritans

Question 55

define the following term:
Oliver Cromwell

Question 56

define the following term:
Bill of Rights

Question 57

define the following term:
Bernini and Gentileschi

Question 58

define the following term:
French Classicism

Question 59

define the following term:
Test Act

Question 60

define the following term:
gentry

Question 61

Which statement best describes the Thirty Years' War?

A)It eventually involved every country in Europe and Asia.
B)It is considered by most to be the first "modern" war.
C)It is considered by most to be part of the larger Bourbon-Habsburg struggle.
D)It was primarily fought in Spain.
E)It was exclusively caused by religious differences.

Question 62

Nobles rebelled in _____ between 1648 and 1652 to halt the growth of royal power.

A)France
B)Sweden
C)Switzerland
D)Russia
E)Spain

Question 63

What did Cardinal Richelieu understand to be the biggest roadblock to building a strong monarchy in Louis XIV's France?

A)The rising cost of warfare
B)The weakness of the Bourbons
C)Resistance by the great nobles
D)Armed uprisings by workers in Paris
E)Peasant revolts in the countryside

Question 64

What was a major factor in the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War?

A)Religious disputes
B)Trade disputes
C)Famine
D)Rampant social unrest
E)Witchcraft

Question 65

Which country became dominant in Europe following the Thirty Years' War?

A)Sweden
B)England
C)Germany
D)Spain
E)France

Question 66

Which statement best describes the economic policies of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's controller general of finances?

A)They were absolutely unique in Europe.
B)They involved new accounting practices to take the tax burden off the peasants.
C)They were based on the economic theory of mercantilism.
D)They gave Louis a large surplus in the treasury that he needed to carry out his wars.
E)They could best be described as laissez-faire.

Question 67

Which uprising in France nearly overthrew Louis XIV early in his reign?

A)Vendee
B)Marseillaise
C)Fronde
D)Jacquerie
E)Revolution

Question 68

Which group was particularly susceptible to suspicion during Europe's prolonged witchcraft craze?

A)Journeymen
B)Young, aggressive men
C)Members of opposing Christian denominations
D)Merchants
E)Old women

Question 69

What is an accurate characterization of the reign of Louis XIV?

A)It was a time of unprecedented peace.
B)It was a time of almost continuous war.
C)It was a time in which the French monarchy stabilized its finances.
D)It was a time in which the French monarchy went into decline.
E)It was a time when the French and the Austrians formed a lasting alliance.

Question 70

Which economic trend occurred in the first half of the seventeenth century?

A)The Mediterranean region saw a surge in economic activity.
B)Overall, the European economy expanded rapidly.
C)Silver imports from the Americas tripled.
D)Italy declined in economic importance.
E)France was unaffected by the general decline in the European economy.

Question 71

The Thirty Years' War began when _____ in Bohemia rebelled against Habsburg authority.

A)Muslim refugees
B)ethnic minorities
C)Calvinist nobles
D)Catholic peasants
E)Lutheran priests

Question 72

define the following term:
Jean-Baptiste Molière

Question 73

How did Louis XIV use his palace at Versailles?

A)To dominate the nobility and display his grandeur
B)To putter around in the garden and enjoy nature
C)To earn money by centralizing the marketplace
D)To get away from politics and spend time with his family
E)To provide a spiritual sanctuary from a troubled world

Question 74

Louis XIV became king in his own right upon the death of

A)Anne of Austria.
B)Maria de Medici.
C)Louis XIII.
D)Richelieu.
E)Mazarin.

Question 75

What was Cardinal Richelieu's greatest success as Louis XIII's chief minister?

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)Emerging victorious from the Fronde revolts of the nobility
E)Strengthening the central role of the monarchy in domestic and foreign policy

Question 76

During the reign of Philip III, the greedy duke of Lerma ran

A)Belgium.
B)Sweden.
C)France.
D)Austria.
E)Spain.

Question 77

Mazarin tried to carry on the policies of

A)Locke.
B)Calvin.
C)Henry IV.
D)Richelieu.
E)Louis XVI.

Question 78

Louis XIV described himself as the _____ King.

A)One
B)Sun
C)Accidental
D)Humble
E)God

Question 79

Which statement best describes the witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

A)They involved the prosecution of more than 100,000 people.
B)They were often directed against old single men.
C)They were generally directed only at people who denied that they were religious.
D)They were primarily restricted to rural areas.
E)They were minimal in comparison to the late Middle Ages.

Question 80

What was the most destructive war in European history up until the middle of the seventeenth century?

A)The Thirty Years' War
B)The Hundred Years' War
C)The Wars of the Roses
D)The English Civil War
E)The Revolt of the Netherlands