AP EURO BALLS Flashcards
During the eighteenth century, the idea of divine right
was replaced by the idea of “enlightened absolutism” justified by utilitarian arguments.
France in the eighteenth century
lost an empire while acquiring a huge public debt.
The prime minister who furthered British imperial ambitions by acquiring Canada and India was
William Pitt the Elder.
By the eighteenth century, the Dutch Republic
suffered a decline in economic prosperity.
Under the reign of Frederick William I, Prussia
developed a civil service staffed by middle-class officials.
The Austrian emperor Joseph II
provoked general discontent due to his enlightened but radical reforms.
The enlightened legal reforms expressed by Catherine the Great in her Instruction
accomplished little due to heavy opposition and were soon forgotten.
Pugachev’s rebellion broke out after
Catherine the Great’s policies worsened conditions for the peasantry.
Which of the following countries did not participate in the partition of Poland?
England
During the eighteenth century, Spain…
was temporarily rejuvenated by the reforms of Philip V.
Those rulers associated with the enlightened absolutism in the eighteenth century
could never completely overcome the political and social realities of the time.
European diplomacy during the eighteenth century
was shaped by the attempt to prevent one state from dominating the others.
The War of Austrian Succession began in 1740 when Prussia attacked the Habsburg province of
Silesia
The young Habsburg empress whose country was attacked in the War of Austrian Succession was
Maria Theresa
Which war do some historians regard as the first world war?
The Seven Years’ War.
As a result of the French and Indian Wars, France
lost Canada.
During the second half of the eighteenth century
the rate of population growth was nearly double that of the first half of the century.
All of the following contributed to the growth of population in the second half of the eighteenth century except
the eradication of typhus and smallpox.
All of the following were persistent trends in the upper-class eighteenth-century European family except
the removal of children from foundling homes to board at state and municipal workshops.
New European attitudes toward children are made visible in all of the following except
a reinforcement of the custom of primogeniture.
Which one of the following non-native, imported products allowed Irish peasants to survive on the small plots of land left to them by English landlords?
potatoes.
The image can be used by historians as evidence for which of the following changes in European history?
The development of a market economy
One way that a woman’s role in married life during this time period stayed the same was
she was expected to have children to carry on the family line and oversee the household.
