Chapter 16-17 Terms Flashcards
The Treaty of Cateau-CambrŽsis between France and _________ was signed in 1559.
A) Spain
The victory of the Ottomans over the Hungarians on the plain of __________ led to a great advance of Protestantism in Hungary.
B) Moh‡cs
The Peace of Westphalia was signed in
A) October, 1648.
The quinto was
B) a Spanish tax on all precious metals mined in its colonies.
Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as
A) a painter whose work exemplifies the sensuality of Baroque painting
Baroque art was
B) intended to kindle the faith of the common people.
A state may be termed __________ when it possesses a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries.
A) sovereign
Among the weaknesses of the French financial system under Louis XIV were all of the following except
E) lack of direction in state financial and economic policy under the incompetent Colbert.
Which of the following was not one of the outcomes of the Peace of Utrecht?
A) It gave the Dutch control over the former Spanish Netherlands.
The Fronde refers to
E) a rebellion by aristocrats and others early in the reign of Louis XIV.
Medieval kings claimed to rule
C) by divine right.
Political power in the Dutch republic was
B) controlled by an oligarchy of wealthy merchants.
The cause of the War of Spanish Succession was
E) The prospect of Louis XIV controlling both the French and Spanish thrones.
The decline of Spain in the seventeenth century can be attributed to all of the following causes except
A) conflict between the church and the state.
French intendants were almost always recruited from the
B) new, judicial nobility.
Richelieu’s constructive genius is best reflected in his
E) administrative innovations.
The guiding force behind Cardinal Richelieu’s domestic policies was
C) the subordination of all groups and institutions to the monarchy.
The English Navigation Act of 1651
E) required that English goods be transported on English ships.
The English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes held that
E) the power of the ruler was absolute but derived from an implicit contract with the governed.
- The decline of the Dutch economy was caused by
B) the wars of the seventeenth century.
The center of the struggle between the French crown and the Huguenots in 1627 was
B) La Rochelle.
- Richelieu’s notion of ____________ justified actions on behalf of the state that would be condemned if carried out by private individuals.
A) raison d’Žtat
Mercantilist theory postulated that
B) imports and exports should be equally balanced.
The spark that caused the English Glorious Revolution was the
B) fear of a Catholic dynasty being established by James II.
Colbert’s contributions to the economy of France included all of the following except
A) creating a national bank.
Louis XIV installed his royal court at
B) Versailles.
In 1685 _____________ was the strongest and most highly centralized state in Europe.
C) France
The primary instrument of Dutch overseas imperialism was the
B) Dutch East India Company.
The state that gained the most from the War of the Spanish Succession was
D) England.
Typically, French classicism
B) presented subject matter associated with the Greco-Roman past.
Which country had the highest living standards in Europe in the mid-seventeenth century?
E) the Netherlands.
significant feature of English society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was
A) growing wealth of the country gentry and middleclass businessmen.
Between 1635 and 1659 the French army increased by approximately how many times?
C) Ten.
The final collapse of Spain as a great military power was symbolized by the defeat at the Battle of Rocroi, and the resulting Treaty of
C) the Pyrenees.
- ___________’s plays include Tartuffe and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
B) Molire
Charles II was restored to the English throne in
E) 1660.
According to the text, what values consonant with business success did Calvinism promote?
D) Hard work, thrift, and postponement of gratification.
French foreign policy under Richelieu focused primarily on the
A) prevention of the Habsburgs from unifying the territories surrounding France.
Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate is best described as a
D) Puritan, military dictatorship.
The fourth, or __________, phase of the Thirty Years’ War began in 1635.
D) French
