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The increasing taxes levied on peasants during the seventeenth century resulted in... |
| | A) | an expansion of sown area. |
| | B) | tax revolts. |
| | C) | an unprecedented wave of entrepreneurship. |
| | D) | better social services. |
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Seventeenth-century European monarchs justified their rule by reference to... |
| | A) | divine right. |
| | B) | a constitution. |
| | C) | the law of heredity. |
| | D) | strong armies. |
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Henry IV ended the religious wars between Protestants and Catholics in France by issuing... |
| | A) | the Treaty of Augsburg. |
| | B) | the intendant. |
| | C) | the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. |
| | D) | the Edict of Nantes. |
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Cardinal Richelieu strengthened the position of the French monarchy by... |
| | A) | continuing Henry IV's reforms. |
| | B) | expanding the nobility of the robe to create more popular support. |
| | C) | destroying nobles who opposed the king and creating the intendant system. |
| | D) | granting further rights to the French Huguenots. |
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During the reign of Louis XIV, France fought all of the following wars except the... |
| | A) | War of Devolution. |
| | B) | War of the League of Augsburg. |
| | C) | War of Spanish Succession. |
| | D) | Seven Years' War. |
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Most of the land in eastern Europe was worked by... |
| | A) | free peasants. |
| | B) | serfs. |
| | C) | day laborers. |
| | D) | Junkers. |
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Frederick William solidified his position and enhanced the status of the state of Brandenburg-Prussia by... |
| | A) | strengthening his standing army. |
| | B) | reforming the bureaucracy. |
| | C) | freeing the serfs. |
| | D) | avoiding costly wars. |
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The Russian ruler who attempted to westernize and modernize Russia was... |
| | A) | Ivan the Terrible. |
| | B) | Tsar Fydor. |
| | C) | Michael Romanov. |
| | D) | Peter I. |
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The Russian Law Code of 1649... |
| | A) | exempted nobles from paying taxes. |
| | B) | merged peasants and slaves into a class of serfs. |
| | C) | lowered the term of service for military conscripts. |
| | D) | created a uniform system of local government. |
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Peter the Great allowed people to move up through the ranks of the nobility only because of... |
| | A) | merit. |
| | B) | service in the military. |
| | C) | education. |
| | D) | family origin. |
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Under Peter the Great, Russia, through military victory, gained a port on... |
| | A) | the Black Sea. |
| | B) | the Danube. |
| | C) | the Arctic Ocean. |
| | D) | the Baltic Sea. |
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In Poland, a strong central government failed to form because... |
| | A) | no Polish monarch wanted such responsibility. |
| | B) | a constitution limited the power of the king. |
| | C) | the nobles in the Polish Diet were able to safeguard their power. |
| | D) | putting down peasant uprisings sapped state finances. |
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The official church of England was the... |
| | A) | Presbyterian church. |
| | B) | Anglican church. |
| | C) | Puritan church. |
| | D) | Catholic church. |
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After its members forced Charles I to agree that he could not disband them without their consent, the English Parliament became known as the... |
| | A) | Rump Parliament. |
| | B) | Long Parliament. |
| | C) | Diet. |
| | D) | Duma. |
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The parliamentary forces which fought against Charles I and were led by Oliver Cromwell were called the... |
| | A) | Quakers. |
| | B) | Cavaliers. |
| | C) | Roundheads. |
| | D) | Knights. |
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Because of the turbulence and severe economic problems suffered by England in the 1640s, a group calling for social justice emerged and were known as the... |
| | A) | Puritans. |
| | B) | Quakers. |
| | C) | Parliamentarians. |
| | D) | Levellers. |
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During his trial, Charles I continually maintained that... |
| | A) | he ruled by divine right. |
| | B) | parliament had no right to bring charges against him. |
| | C) | sovereignty resided in Parliament. |
| | D) | he should be tried as a private citizen. |
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In his political treatise The Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes argued that... |
| | A) | humans created a "social contract" with their rulers by which they willingly surrendered their sovereignty. |
| | B) | kings ruled by divine right. |
| | C) | citizens had the right to depose a king who broke his side of the contract. |
| | D) | people were capable of maintaining their sovereignty and ruling themselves. |
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In the Glorious Revolution of 1688, parliament asked which Protestant leader to take over the English throne? |
| | A) | Charles II |
| | B) | James II |
| | C) | William of Orange |
| | D) | Louis XIV |
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In the United Provinces, or the Dutch Republic, sovereignty remained the prerogative of the people and political power remained localized for all of the following reasons except: |
| | A) | Dutch economic prosperity facilitated political independence. |
| | B) | the Dutch aristocracy was not historically wealthy and had more in common with merchants. |
| | C) | Protestant religion cultivated an ideology of moderation and religious toleration there. |
| | D) | this region had never been ruled by an absolute monarch. |
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The lives of peasants in seventeenth century Europe were usually patterned after a set of social norms. For example, peasants typically owed increasingly burdensome services to their political and spiritual superiors. What is another such characteristic of seventeenth century peasant life? |
| | A) | Peasants tended to marry young. |
| | B) | Men did heavier work than women. |
| | C) | Children were the focus of family life. |
| | D) | Most marriages ended in divorce. |
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After 1600, Monarchs typically centralized power by... |
| | A) | granting aristocrats invitations to the royal court |
| | B) | suppressing the bourgeoisie |
| | C) | granting local autonomy to the aristocracy |
| | D) | suppressing the lower nobility |
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