AP Europe Chapter 6 and Chapter 7

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The scientific facts that the orbits of the planets are elliptical was discovered by ___

Johannes Kepler

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Who published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres and rejected the notion of an earth-centered universe?

Nicolaus Copernicus

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Who is known as the father of empiricism?

Francis Bacon

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Descartes divided existing things into two categories: body and ___

mind

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Hobbes saw human beings as ___

self-centered, power-hungry creatures

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Maria Winkelmann made her contribution in the field of ___

astronomy

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What percentage of people accused of witchcraft in the early modern period were women?

80%

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Galileo named the moons of Jupiter after the Medicis because ___

he wanted to flatter his patrons

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Baroque art became associated with ___

Roman Catholicism

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Brahe's assistant was ___

Johannes Kepler

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The scientist most known for his work on the laws of gravitation was ___

Isaac Newton

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Francis Bacon believed that ___

knowledge of nature should be used to improve the human condition

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In Locke's view, the relationship between rulers and the governed land had its foundations in ___

trust

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According to Pascal's famous wager, ___

it is best to believe God exists and stake everything to gain a lot; if God should prove not to exist, comparatively little would have been lost

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The most elaborative baroque monument to political absolutism was ___

Louis XIV's palace at Versailles

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Which of these first argued convincingly for the heliocentric model model of the universe?

Nicolaus Copernicus

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The Berlin Academy of Science denied Maria Winkelmann's application to continue her husband's study because

she was a women

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According to Francis Bacon, the Bible and nature___________.

must be compatible since they share the same author

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In eighteenth-century Europe, the nobility consisted of approximately ________ of the population.

1 to 5 percent

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French nobles were divided between nobles "of the sword" and nobles "of the ________."

Robe

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Most Europeans in the 1700s took part in the _________ economy.

Family

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Introduced from the New World, what new product allowed a more certain food supply in Europe and enabled more children to survive to adulthood and rear children of their own?

Potato

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What industry pioneered the Industrial Revolution?

Textiles

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The Industrial Revolution came first to ________.

Britain

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The bourgeoisie was the ________ class.

Urban Middle

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What inventor became famous for using an iron plow and planting wheat with a drill?

Jethro Tull

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The first engine using steam power was invented by ________.

Thomas Newcomen

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The term "Old Regime" has come to refer
to the ________.

the social, political, and economic relationships in Europe before the French Revolution.

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Factory production of purely cotton
fabric was made possible by the
invention of the ________.

water frame

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Given what you know about the impact of
the Industrial Revolution on the lives of
women, which of the following
statements is most applicable?

The role and importance of women already in the work force diminished

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Which of the following was a clearly
defined long-term result of the shift in
female employment?

Women's work became associated with the home rather than with the places where men worked.

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The change that rationalized the use of
land and created higher productivity was
the ________.

Agricultural Revolution.

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What event probably marks the start of
the age of the ghetto?

The expulsion of the Jews from Spain.

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How did the North American colonies impact the Industrial Revolution?

They increased demand for consumer goods.

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Landlords considered Russian serfs to
be ________.

economic commodities