Chapter 18

Question 1

Identify and explain the significance of the:
Protestant Reformation (p. 437)

Question 2

Identify and explain the significance of the:
mercantilism (p. 452)

Question 3

Identify and explain the significance of the:
Jesuits (p. 441)

Question 4

Identify and explain the significance of the:
constitutionalism (p. 454)

Question 5

Identify and explain the significance of the:
moral economy (p. 444)

Question 6

Identify and explain the significance of the:
Thirty Years’ War (p. 444)

Question 7

Identify and explain the significance of the:
sovereignty (p. 445)

Question 8

Identify and explain the significance of the:
absolutism (p. 447)

Question 9

Identify and explain the significance of the:
divine right of kings (p. 449)

Question 10

Identify and explain the significance of the:
republicanism (p. 454)

Question 11

Identify and explain the significance of the:
Puritans (p. 454)

Question 12

Identify and explain the significance of the:
Bill of Rights of 1689 (p. 456)

Question 13

Identify and explain the significance of the:
Navigation Acts (p. 461)

Question 14

Identify and explain the significance of the:
Cossacks (p. 464)

Question 15

How did the Protestant and Catholic Reformations change power structures in Europe and shape European colonial expansion? (p. 437)

Question 16

How did seventeenth-century European rulers overcome social and economic crisis to build strong states? (p. 442)

Question 17

What was absolutism, and how did it evolve in seventeenth-century Spain, France, and Austria? (p. 447)

Question 18

Why and how did the constitutional state triumph in England and the Dutch Republic? (p. 454)

Question 19

How did European nations compete for global trade and empire in the Americas and Asia? (p. 457)

Question 20

How did Russian rulers build a distinctive absolutist monarchy and expand into a vast and powerful empire? (p.462)

Question 21

This chapter has argued that, despite their political differences, rulers in absolutist and constitutionalist nations faced similar obstacles in the mid- seventeenth century and achieved many of the same goals. Based on the evidence presented here, do you agree with this argument? Why or why not?

Question 22

Proponents of absolutism in western Europe believed that their form of monarchical rule was fundamentally different from and superior to what they saw as the “despotism” of Russia and the Ottoman Empire (Chapter 17).
What was the basis of this belief, and how accurate do you think it was?

Question 23

What common features did the Muslim empires of the Middle East and India (Chapter 17) share with European empires? How would you characterize interaction among these Eurasian empires?

Question 24

Songhai Empire

Answer 24

1464-1591

Question 25

Safavid Empire in Persia

Answer 25

1501-1722

Question 26

Reign of Ivan the Terrible in Russia

Answer 26

1533-1584