front 1 From an international perspective, the Peace of Westphalia (1648) marked: | back 1 the emergence of France as the dominant power in Europe, eclipsing Spain. |
front 2 One of the factors that contributed to the long-term hostilities between England and Spain was: | back 2 the fact that Spain secretly supported the Irish rebellion against England that began in 1565. |
front 3 The major difference between British and Spanish colonial activities in the Americas is that: | back 3 British colonies were private ventures and Spanish colonies were royal enterprises. |
front 4 The Thirty Years’ War began when: | back 4 a Catholic prince became the ruler of a Protestant territory. |
front 5 Peter Paul Rubens stressed the _________ of the Baroque style. | back 5 extravagance |
front 6 The discovery of new lands and phenomenon not accounted for in the Bible: | back 6 exposed the limitations of human knowledge and set in motion quests for better ways to explain the world. |
front 7 The increase in the amount of silver flowing from the Americas to Europe in the sixteenth century is credited with causing or exacerbating: | back 7 all of the possible answers are correct |
front 8 Oliver Cromwell rose to power in England as: | back 8 the leader of the parliamentary army. |
front 9 Both Protestants and Catholics supported the increasingly powerful governments of their time in: | back 9 perpetrating an early modern "witch craze." |
front 10 Baroque painting is considered by many to have found its master in Diego Velázquez with such paintings as: | back 10 The Maids of Honor. |
front 11 During the revolt of the Netherlands, the Protestant forces of William of Orange: | back 11 were Calvinist. |
front 12 The social and political crises of the English Civil War: | back 12 swelled the ranks of unfree labor in the British colonies in America. |
front 13 Using the Portuguese "fort and factory" model of colonial expansion, __________ became the most prosperous commercial empire of the seventeenth century. | back 13 France |
front 14 The primary problem caused by the Price Revolution of the late sixteenth century was: | back 14 inflation. |
front 15 The European explorations beginning in the fifteenth century resulted in: | back 15 an increase in slavery in the world. |
front 16 The main theme of Montaigne’s Essays was: | back 16 a pervasive skepticism about all human knowledge. |
front 17 The primary goal of Cardinal Richelieu’s government was: | back 17 to increase and centralize royal power over France. |
front 18 The Spanish government encouraged settlement of its colonial holdings in the Americas: | back 18 yet Spanish residents remained largely in the urban, military, and governance centers of the empire. |
front 19 In economic terms, New World colonization and plunder had the greatest positive effect on: | back 19 the Spanish. |
front 20 One consequence of the contact between Europe and America was that: | back 20 the landscapes in Central America were denuded after Spanish ranching operations were instituted. |
front 21 The Atlantic world began to be united as a result of the Portuguese and Spanish settlement of: | back 21 the Canary Islands. |
front 22 Most French Protestants were: | back 22 Calvinists. |
front 23 What forced Charles I to summon a new parliament, after he had ruled without one for eleven years? | back 23 an invasion force from Scotland. |
front 24 The Elizabethan author of Doctor Faustus was: | back 24 Christopher Marlowe. |
front 25 William Shakespeare may have revealed the doubts, uncertainty, and search for new sources of certain understanding about the human condition in his play set in the Americas entitled: | back 25 The Tempest |