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How did the Protestant Reformation affect women?

A) Women enjoyed more freedom and authority in Protestant convents

B) Women had mre opportunities to assume official roles within the churches

C) Women created their own church focused on the veneration of Mary and female saints

D) The emphasis on reading the Bible for oneself stimulated education and literacy for women.

D) The emphasis on reading the Bible for oneself stimulated education and literacy for women.

What facilitated the spread of the Protestant Reformation in Europe?

A) Illuminated manuscripts

B) The printing press

C) The Council of Trent

D) The Society of Jesus

B) The printing press

What did the New England Puritans in North America emphasize?

A) Religious tolerance

B) Conversion of native peoples

C) Education and civic responsibility

D) Reconciliation wiht the Catholic Church

C) Education and civic responsibility

Which group had the greatest success in converting people outside of Europe to Christianity?

A) Jesuit missionaries in China

B) Spanish Catholic missionaries in the Philippines

C) Puritan missionaries in New England

D) Portugues missionaries in West Africa

B) Spanish Catholic missionaries in the Philippines

Which of the following was generally more true of Catholics than Protestants in European colonies?

A) Catholics built more simply designed churches

B) Catholics were more intent on converting native peoples.

C) Catholics were more opposed to slavery

D) Catholics encouraged literacy in the local population

B) Catholics were more intent on converting native peoples.

Which of the following was a goal of the Wahhabi movement?

A) To return to the absolute monotheism of authentic Islam

B) To promote religious blending and syncretism in Islam

C) to encourage religious tolerance

D) To expand the rights of women under Islamic law

A) To return to the absolute monotheism of authentic Islam

Which of the following is a principle or practice upheld in Sikhism?

A) Seclusioin of women

B) Universalism of Islam

C) Equality of men and women

D) Respect of caste distinctions

C) Equality of men and women

What condition in Europe that was absent in China and the Islamic world contributed to the Scientific Revolution?

A) The relative independence of European universities

B) The superiority of the libraries of in Western Europe

C) Europe's leadership in the fields of mathematics and medicine after 1000 C.E.

D) The merging of the study of the natural order with philosophy and theology

A) The relative independence of European universities

Which of the following describes European reaction to the syncretic religions of African slave communities in the New World?

A) Tolerance

B) Acceptance

C) Conversion

D) Suppression

D) Suppression

Both Wang Yangmin in his view of Confucianism and Martin Luther in his view of Christianity

A) attacked local customs as idoltry and sought to purify their respective traditions

B) invoked divine will to justify the power and priveledges of the elite

C) argued that individuals could find their own path to virtue and salvation.

D) fought for religious tolerance and social justice for the poor and oppressed

C) argued that individuals could find their own path to virtue and salvation.

Which of the following represents a form of Hinduism that shared features with mystical Sufi forms of Islam?

A) The kaozheng movement

B) The bhakti movement

C) The Wahhabi movement

D) The Taki Onqoy movement

B) The bhakti movement

In what way did nineteenth-century developments in the sciences depart from Enlightenment principles?

A) They emphasized conflict and struggle as the motors of progress.

B) They challenged the validity of universal laws in science .

C) They challenged the very idea of progress.

D) They rejected the techniques of science

A) They emphasized conflict and struggle as the motors of progress.

Why did Sikhism evolve from a peaceful religion into a militant community?

A) Violence was more effective at gaining converts.

B) Punjab, where Sikhism was founded, was torn apart by a civil war.

C) The British military trained them to be militants

D) They had to defend themselves against both Mughal and Hindu hostility.

D) They had to defend themselves against both Mughal and Hindu hostility.

How was the Enlightenment related to the Scientific Revolution?

A) The Enlightenment applied the idea of natural laws to human affairs rather than the physical universe.

B) The Enlightenment refers to people's growing awareness of the Scientific revolution

C) The Enlightenment inspired the Scientific revolution

D) The Enlightenment was a Protestant movement, while the Scientific Revolution was a Catholic movement

A) The Enlightenment applied the idea of natural laws to human affairs rather than the physical universe.

Which of the following describes the reception of modern European science in China, Japan, and the Ottoman Empire during the early modern era?

A) Adoption of European advances in medicine only

B) Acceptance of European theoretical science but rejection of its practical applications

C) Selective adoption of European scientific learning

D) Wholesale adoption of Western scientific learning

C) Selective adoption of European scientific learning

What made Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses revolutionary?

A) The condemnation of the Church's selling of indulgences

B) The idea that an individual could find salvation by faith alone

C) The proposal that knowledge should be based on observations and experiments

D) The theory that the sun was the center of the universe

B) The idea that an individual could find salvation by faith alone

What was the significance of the Peace of Westphalia?

A) It closed the rigt between Catholocism and Protestantism and paved the way for a unified Christianity

B) It acknowledged the Catholic Church's acceptance of local religious traditions in Spanish colonies

C) It ended a series of religious wars in West Africa between advocates of relgious syncretism and defenders of a universal, orthodox Islam

D) It granted the ruler of each European state the authority to control religious affairs within his own domain.

D) It granted the ruler of each European state the authority to control religious affairs within his own domain.

What factor made some parts of the world more receptive to Christianity than others?

A) The absence of a literate world religion

B) The strength of state-supported belief systems

C) The less destructive impact of the European presences on local society

D) The early conversion of local rulers

A) The absence of a literate world religion

Why did the Chinese imperial court initially welcome the Jesuit missionaries?

A) The Chinese state saw the political and military success of the European states as a demonstration of the power of the Christian God

B) The Chinese people had been defeated, their societies disrupted, and their cultural confidence shattered

C) The Jesuits' knowledge in mathematics, astronomy, technology, geography, and mapmaking was useful to the Chinese.

D) The Jesuits far outnumbered the chinese and had already converted the vast majority of the nomadic peoples in the steppes north of China

C) The Jesuits' knowledge in mathematics, astronomy, technology, geography, and mapmaking was useful to the Chinese.

Which of the following marked a major turning point in the relationship between China and Christian missionaries?

A) The Catholic Church's crushing of the Taki Onqoy movement

B) The pope's claim of authority over Chinese Christians

C) The issuance of the Edict of Nantes

D) The emergence of Whhabi Islam

B) The pope's claim of authority over Chinese Christians

What similar feature did Andean Christianity and Mexican Christianity share?

A) Both defined Christian rituals as civil observances rather than religious practices

B) Both condemned the Christian ritual of Holy Communion as a kind of cannibalism

C) Both used Christian communities to organize rebellions against Spanish rule

D) Both reinterpreted Christian practices within the framework of local customs.

D) Both reinterpreted Christian practices within the framework of local customs.

During the centuries between 1450 and 1750, the spread of Islam was usually the

A) work of Muslim holy men, scholars, and traders.

B) result of conquest and forced conversions

C) product of indoctrination

D) responsibility of specially chosen missionaries

A) work of Muslim holy men, scholars, and traders.

What did the kaozheng movement in China emphasize?

A) Introspection and contemplation as a means to achieve the virtuous life

B) Withdrawal from the world as a means to gain enlightenment

C) Verification, precision, accuracy, and rigorous analysis in all fields of inquiry

D) Attention to church sacraments and good works as the path to salvation

C) Verification, precision, accuracy, and rigorous analysis in all fields of inquiry

Europeans who participated in the Scientific Revolution placed value on knowledge that was based on

A) the writings of classical philosophers

B) mathematical reasoning.

C) cultural tradition

D) the Church's interpretation of the Bible

B) mathematical reasoning.

The early scientists in the Scientific Revolution

A) wer overwhelmingly women

B) rejected Christianity

C) confirmed Aristotle's and Ptolemy's speculations

D) saw no conflict between science and religion.

D) saw no conflict between science and religion.

Which of the following did all Enlightenment thinkers share?

A) The notion of the divine right of kings

B) The principly of gender equality

C) The belief in progress and reason

D) The conviction that Christianity was the only universal religion

C) The belief in progress and reason

Which of the following was a reaction to the reliance on human reason during the eighteenth century in Europe?

A) Romanticism

B) Deism

C) Sikhism

D) Pantheism

A) Romanticism

Which of the following reflects the Enlightenment view of the innate qualities of the individual?

A) Intolerant, close-minded, and hypocritical

B) Conservative, complacent

C) Aggressive, neurotic, and irrational

D) Thoughtful, rational, and independent

D) Thoughtful, rational, and independent

Which of the following figures is associated with the Scientific Revolution?

A) Mirabai

B) Newton

C) Voltaire

D) Condorect

B) Newton

In which country was the spread of Christianity in the early modern era not accompanied by European conquest?

A) Japan

B) Mexico

C) Peru

D) The Phillipine Islands

A) Japan