Deck 16: Europe in the Age of Louis Xiv, CA 1640-1715

Question 1

Define the following terms: Bishop Jacques Bossuet

Answer 1

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Question 2

Define the following terms: Levellers

Answer 2

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Question 3

Define the following terms: "military revolution"

Answer 3

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Question 4

Define the following terms: Presbyterians

Question 5

Define the following terms: Jean Racine

Question 6

Define the following terms: Molière

Question 7

Define the following terms: Oliver Cromwell

Question 8

Define the following terms: Jansenists

Question 9

Define the following terms: Parlement of Paris

Question 10

Define the following terms: Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Question 11

Define the following terms: absolutism

Question 12

Define the following terms: Fronde

Question 13

Define the following terms: Peace of Utrecht

Question 14

Define the following terms: Charles II

Question 15

Define the following terms: Louis XIV

Question 16

Define the following terms: War of the Spanish Succession

Question 17

Define the following terms: Cardinal Mazarin

Question 18

Define the following terms: mercantilism

Question 19

Define the following terms: Versailles

Question 20

Define the following terms: Restoration

Question 21

Define the following terms: Time of Troubles

Question 22

Define the following terms: Cossacks

Question 23

Define the following terms: Junkers

Question 24

Define the following terms: New England

Question 25

Define the following terms: Peter the Great

Question 26

Define the following terms: St. Petersburg

Question 27

Define the following terms: Spanish Netherlands

Question 28

Define the following terms: plantation system

Question 29

Define the following terms: Treaty of Carlowitz

Question 30

Define the following terms: Virginia

Question 31

Define the following terms: Jan Sobieski

Question 32

Define the following terms: stadholder

Question 33

Define the following terms: Leopold I

Question 34

Define the following terms: New France

Question 35

Define the following terms: Great Northern War

Question 36

Define the following terms: Brandenburg-Prussia

Question 37

Define the following terms: Dutch East India Company

Question 38

Define the following terms: Parliament

Question 39

Define the following terms: Glorious Revolution

Question 40

Define the following terms: Ukraine

Question 41

Compare the rise to power of Brandenburg-Prussia under Frederick William with that of Russia under Peter the Great. What were some similarities and differences in the policies of the two men?

Question 42

How did the continuing struggle between King Charles I of England and Parliament escalate after 1642? What Puritan military leader led the parliamentary army against the king? What was the final outcome for Charles?

Question 43

Discuss the political ideas of Oliver Cromwell and how he did or did not put them into practice. What finally caused the fall of the Protectorate?

Question 44

Louis XIV's road to the throne faced potential disaster. Being the king at the age of five, he had to rely on his Regent Mother and Cardinal Mazarin to prepare him for the throne. Discuss this bumpy trip to the French throne.

Question 45

Summarize the character and political methods of Louis XIV. What specific measures in administrative, economic, and religious policy did he promote? How did he use the court at Versailles as an instrument of royal control?

Question 46

Discuss the rise of Sweden to dominance in the Baltic area during the seventeenth century.

Question 47

Describe and explain absolutism under Louis XIV. How absolute was absolutism?

Question 48

Discuss the consolidation of Habsburg territorial power under Leopold I. What obstacles did he face, and what was the result of his policies?

Question 49

All of the following are true of mercantilism except that it

A) emphasized national self-sufficiency in manufactured goods.
B) favored state control of trade.
C) greatly damaged the French economy.
D) was adopted by Colbert.
E) relied on collecting specific information, which was used to create future economic policy.

Question 50

Define the following terms: Black Robes

Question 51

Present an overview of Polish history during the period between ca. 1640 and 1715. What main problems did the Polish-Lithuanian state face? What were the results for Poland of "the deluge"?

Question 52

Survey French and English colonization in the New World. What common themes may be identified? What differences can be detected? What are their long-term implications?

Question 53

Summarize the Dutch "Golden Age." Why is it so called?

Question 54

Louis XIV successfully established his absolutism because

A) the Parlement of Paris and the Estates General were rival institutions, thus dividing opposition to royal power.
B) aristocrats and bureaucrats could be co-opted by the king.
C) the latest revolt against the king, the Fronde, brought severe hardship to the urban population.
D) of the support from Cardinal Mazarin.
E) All of these

Question 55

As a king, Louis XIV was

A) diligent and hard-working.
B) interested only in court ceremonies.
C) lazy and unintelligent.
D) unable to control the governmental machinery.
E) determined to sustain an expensive and aggressive foreign policy.

Question 56

Which of the following is not accurate about the second half of the seventeenth century?

A) France developed an effective absolutist monarchy.
B) England experienced at least two changes in government.
C) The Dutch maintained Europe's most successful trading empire to date.
D) Central European powers continued to be decentralized and weak.
E) A dynamic phase of European overseas expansion occurred.

Question 57

Discuss the wars of Louis XIV. What were his goals, and what did he gain in each of his early wars? When and why did his early successes begin to give way to defeat, and what was the result of his last war?

Question 58

Summarize events leading up to the Glorious Revolution. Include the character and policies of Charles II and the reason why the birth of James III precipitated the takeover of the throne by William of Orange.

Question 59

Louis XIV increased the efficiency of his government by

A) reducing the size of the High Council.
B) drawing his ministers from the bourgeoisie, not the nobility.
C) using intendants to circumvent tax farmers.
D) using men according to their expertise and advice they could offer the king.
E) All of these

Question 60

Discuss the challenge to royal authority in France as embodied in the Fronde. How did Mazarin cope with it?

Question 61

In the seventeenth century, a global economic system emerged that

A) continued to expand dramatically.
B) saw the Dutch, French, and English successfully challenge Spain and Portugal.
C) had a crucial impact on life within Europe.
D) had a crucial impact on the life within Europe and affected production, consumption, and social class.
E) All of these

Question 62

The achievements of Peter the Great included

A) the fostering of ethnic Russian life and culture.
B) his determination to live in peace with neighboring countries.
C) Westernization of Russia and development of a powerful army and navy.
D) his resistance to European technology and culture.
E) moving the capital back to Moscow.

Question 63

Referring to the chapter feature, "The Global Record: Journal of a Dutch Slave Ship," which of the following was not a part of records kept in the captain's log?

A) Slaves included only men.
B) Food supplies for slaves were often lacking.
C) Disease and illness were a part of the slaves' lives aboard slave ships.
D) Because of the value of the slaves, during a ship wreck, slaves were saved before the crew.
E) Before the ship wreck, no slaves died on the trip.

Question 64

Political and religious opposition to Charles I of England resulted in

A) an enduring compromise between king and Parliament.
B) the permanent abolition of the monarchy in England.
C) the execution of Oliver Cromwell by the king.
D) civil war and execution of the king.
E) conflict concerning the control over taxation.

Question 65

The Cavalier parliament did which of the following?

A) Passed freedom of religion legislation
B) Imposed Catholicism
C) Required vows of loyalty to the monarch
D) Demanded that Charles II renounce Catholicism or lose the throne
E) Passed legislation that prevented any Protestant monarch from taking the throne

Question 66

Which of the following statements, related to civility in the seventeenth century is not correct?

A) Dining utensils had been introduced into eating.
B) It opened up a gulf between the classes.
C) Violence did not decrease, although social manners did.
D) A napkin replaced the use of the sleeve and fingers.
E) To show class, nobles traveled by coach instead on horseback.

Question 67

The works of Racine

A) were all copies of Shakespeare humorous tales.
B) were all written in prose.
C) glorified the importance of the noble class in France.
D) strongly emphasized the pessimism of the later years of Louis's reign.
E) focused on the violent lives of the characters and society of the time.

Question 68

The consolidation and coherence of Austria was accomplished by all of the following except

A) the Thirty Years' War had strengthened the Habsburgs in their own land.
B) political and institutional changes had been made to accommodate the diverse cultures inside the empire.
C) Bohemian lands achieved during the Thirty Years' War were distributed among loyal Austrian families.
D) a strong political, military, and economic system still thrived in Vienna.
E) support from the papacy.

Question 69

Molière and Racine were

A) the most important outposts of New France.
B) playwrights in the heyday of French drama.
C) mediocre playwrights whose work symbolized the cultural stagnation of absolutism.
D) two of Louis XIV's most successful ministers.
E) music composers hired to entertain at Versailles.

Question 70

Cromwell is known for all of the following except

A) the dissolution of Parliament.
B) the brutal invasion of Ireland and the seizure of Irish property.
C) the establishment of a stable republic.
D) the division of England into districts run by the military.
E) establishing an English Republic having a very narrow political base.

Question 71

In the seventeenth century, England experienced

A) townspeople and gentry taking opposite stands on the English political system.
B) peace and prosperity indicative of a superior culture and institutions.
C) foreign invasions, unprecedented in its history.
D) peace and prosperity largely due to chance.
E) a series of cataclysmic political events.

Question 72

Which of the following cannot be associated with the decline of Poland-Lithuania in the seventeenth century?

A) The growing power of the aristocracy over both peasants and gentry
B) The resistance of Cossacks to enserfment
C) Destruction of the state and permanent partition
D) Demographic disaster and urban decline
E) The strain of the Counter-Reformation

Question 73

An important new German power that emerged after the Thirty Years' War was

A) Saxony.
B) Austria.
C) the Palatine.
D) Brandenburg-Prussia.
E) Bohemia.

Question 74

Louis XIV's court had which effect on the nobility?

A) It was both a kind of compensation for lost political power and a means to further weaken it.
B) The rate of literacy among the nobility significantly increased.
C) Elegant, precise etiquette and clever conversations became signs of nobility.
D) Nobles competed with each other to gain the attention of the king.
E) All of these

Question 75

Two years after Cromwell's death, a newly elected Parliament

A) engineered the Glorious Revolution.
B) proclaimed a new republic.
C) restored the monarchy under Charles II.
D) declared Cromwell's son king.
E) outlawed a constitutional monarchy for England.

Question 76

All of the following apply to the "Glorious Revolution" except that it

A) occurred in 1688.
B) brought William and Mary to the English throne.
C) was a triumph for the monarchy.
D) established that future monarchs had to be Protestants.
E) ended James' attempt to retake the throne, when he was defeated in the Battle of Boyne.

Question 77

Which of the following does not correctly describe the economic activities of Colbert?

A) Reduction of internal tolls and customs barriers
B) Reducing the size of the French military
C) Establishment of state-sponsored trading companies
D) Development of a favorable balance of payment
E) Futuristic national economic planning

Question 78

Factors in the success of the Dutch overseas trading empire included

A) the decline of its Baltic trade.
B) the discovery of rich silver mines in India.
C) the great benefits of the alliance with England.
D) technological improvements and formation of the Dutch East India Company and the Bank of Amsterdam.
E) a solid base of wealthy and stable merchants.

Question 79

The dominant power on the Baltic coast in the seventeenth century was

A) Russia.
B) Sweden.
C) Finland.
D) Poland.
E) Lithuania.

Question 80

The "Great Elector" consolidated Brandenburg-Prussia through all of the following except

A) terminating Polish overlordship in Prussia.
B) maintaining the general war commissariat in peacetime and using the army to collect high taxes.
C) sponsoring state industries.
D) eliminating the Junkers.
E) sponsoring industry that did not have to compete with urban areas.