Question 1

Use the map (or maps) referenced in each question for your answer. What country had the largest American territorial claims, as shown on Map 16.4? Did the amount of land claimed correspond to actual settlement and control by the various countries?

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Question 2

Use the map (or maps) referenced in each question for your answer. On Map 16.1, locate the areas of modern France acquired by Louis XIV. To what states had they previously belonged, and how did Louis obtain each of them?

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Question 3

Features of European social and economic life in the seventeenth century included

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Peasant rebellions against higher taxes were a common feature of European social and economic life in the seventeenth century. The other options are not accurate - Atlantic trading centers did not decline, there was not a decline in urban population, the putting-out system was not abolished, and there is no evidence to suggest that there was a better living style for urban working classes.

Question 4

Profit from seventeenth-century European colonies in the Americas was increasingly based on

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The cultivation of cash crops, particularly sugar and tobacco, became increasingly profitable for European colonies during the seventeenth century. These crops were harvested and exported in large quantities, bringing significant wealth to the colonies and their European owners.

Question 5

Use the map (or maps) referenced in each question for your answer. On Map 16.2, what was the strongest German state after Austria? What were its two main parts, and what separated them? How did they come to form one state? In what areas did Russia expand under Peter the Great?

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Question 6

Use the map (or maps) referenced in each question for your answer. On Map 16.3, locate the Dutch trade routes within Europe. What products were exchanged between the Baltic countries and southern Europe? What was the main category of goods brought from Asia to Europe? In what major areas were Dutch ports in Asia concentrated? Did the Dutch have a trade center in China?

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Question 7

All of the following were true of the Netherlands during the period between ca. 1640 and 1715 except it had

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While the Netherlands was predominantly Calvinist during this time period, it was not almost exclusively so. There were still significant populations of Catholics and other religious groups.

Question 8

Comparing English and French colonization in North America reveals that

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All of the statements accurately compare aspects of English and French colonization in North America. The French had less push factor for emigration compared to the English, French trade often benefited from more amicable relations with Indigenous peoples, English colonies were more populous and diverse, and both nations gained significant profits from their sugar-producing colonies in the Caribbean.

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

Use the map (or maps) referenced in each question for your answer. What country had the largest American territorial claims, as shown on Map 16.4? Did the amount of land claimed correspond to actual settlement and control by the various countries?

Use the map (or maps) referenced in each question for your answer. On Map 16.1, locate the areas of modern France acquired by Louis XIV. To what states had they previously belonged, and how did Louis obtain each of them?

Features of European social and economic life in the seventeenth century included

Profit from seventeenth-century European colonies in the Americas was increasingly based on

Use the map (or maps) referenced in each question for your answer. On Map 16.2, what was the strongest German state after Austria? What were its two main parts, and what separated them? How did they come to form one state? In what areas did Russia expand under Peter the Great?

All of the following were true of the Netherlands during the period between ca. 1640 and 1715 except it had

Comparing English and French colonization in North America reveals that