The Modern Age

Question 0

How did the world economy gradually become global?

Answer 0

Through colonialism.

Question 1

What was the new social class that emerged out of the Middle Ages?

Answer 1

The middle class

Question 2

Why did Civil War break out in England in 1642?

Answer 2

To protect democratic rights because England enjoyed a primitive form of democracy.

Question 3

What event occurred in France in 1789?

Answer 3

The beginning of the French Revolution.

Question 4

What french general crowned himself emperor of France and changed the political face of Europe?

Answer 4

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 5

What massive transformation began around 1700 that changed the way agriculture, industry and business operated?

Answer 5

The Industrial Revolution

Question 6

What changed in Europe around 1500 that resulted in the onset of the Early Modern Age?

Answer 6

When they began to experience changes in its political, religious, social, economic and intellectual life.

Question 7

Why did Renaissance historians begin to distinguish different eras in history?

Answer 7

They realized that the Renaissance was so different from the Middle Age.

Question 8

What event watched the beginning of the Reformation?

Answer 8

Martin Luther put his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg’s All Saint’s Church in 1517 complaining about some of the practices of the Roman Catholic Church.

Question 9

Why was Martin Luther an opponent of the Catholic Church?

Answer 9

Because he felt that it had grown away from the teachings of the Christ and become to wealthy and powerful.

Question 10

Give a reason why the population of Europe began to rise rapidly after 1500.

Answer 10

The population began to rise due to improvements in agricultural production.

Question 11

Describe four ways how agricultural techniques changed.

Answer 11

Farmers made their small strips of field into one big field.
Some farmer specialized in what they could best Grove focusing on one type of crop.
They began to improve soil.
They benefited from the new products from the Americas.

Question 12

The growth of trade and industry encourage the growth of what?

Answer 12

The middle class.

Question 13

The middle class compromise which groups of society?

Answer 13

The middle class included landowners and prosperous merchants.

Question 14

Which European nations had overseas empires by 1700?

Answer 14

The Spanish the Portuguese to English the Dutch and the French

Question 15

In what way was human thought different during the Renaissance than during the Middle Ages?

Answer 15

Europeans were now more interested in the life of the world around them and weren’t as interested or focused so much on religion in the world to come

Question 16

By what means were the ideas of humanism spread widely through society?

Answer 16

Do use of humanism was spread through art.

Question 17

By 1500 how many books had been printed in Europe?

Answer 17

At least 6 million

Question 18

Who attended schools at that time? Did children of poor families attend schools? If not why not?

Answer 18

Mostly boys of relatively wealthy families attended school some girls did too or were well educated. No poor children attended schools because they began to work at a very early age.

Question 19

What did Copernicus accomplish?

Answer 19

Stated that all of the planets including earth orbit the sun but he could not prove it.

Question 20

What did Galileo accomplish?

Answer 20

Galileo was able to prove that Copernicus’ theory was true.

Question 21

What did Isaac Newton accomplish?

Answer 21

He brought together earlier explanations of the universe in a new theory based on the law of gravity

Question 22

Why was the discovery that the earth orbited the sun a dangerous discovery?

Answer 22

This was dangerous because Christian doctrine was based on an earth centered universe which could only be taught through the church

Question 23

What did the combination of scientific knowledge and technological skills eventually lead to?

Answer 23

The combination of scientific knowledge and technological skills eventually lead to the modern age