Euro Exam

Question 1

Gentry

Answer 1

Wealthy landowners who did not have inherited titles

Question 2

Edict of Nantes

Answer 2

Granted Huguenots new rights

Question 3

Peace of Ausburg

Answer 3

Allowed individual rulers to choose whether their subjects were Catholic or Protestant

Question 4

Machiavelli

Answer 4

Wrote the prince, stressed need for absolute ruler to use any means to achieve political unity

Question 5

Petrarch

Answer 5

Father of humanism, saw Middle Ages as period of darkness

Question 6

Act of supremacy

Answer 6

Making the king of England the head of the Church of England, no longer a Catholic country

Question 7

Thirty years war

Answer 7

War over succession of the Bohemia throne between Catholics and calvinists

Question 8

Baroque

Answer 8

Brought together classical renaissance traditions with strong religious feelings brought up by the reformation

Question 9

Peace of Westphalia

Answer 9

Ended hopes that Europe would unify under single religion, weakened HRE and Spain

Question 10

Primogeniture

Answer 10

Father passing land and wealth to oldest male child

Question 11

Peace of Utrecht

Answer 11

Series of treaties that altered power established with 1648 Treaty of Westphalia; Britain gained land in Spain, America, slaves, Philip V king of Spain, France acknowledged Protestant as religion in England

Question 12

Rationalism

Answer 12

People are able to gain knowledge independently of what they observe

Question 13

Neoclassicism

Answer 13

Secular values of reason and order upheld classical ideals of simplicity and symmetry

Question 14

Empiricism

Answer 14

Idea that all human knowledge comes through what the senses can experience