Unit 3 - Absolutism and Constitutionalism, c. 1648-1815

What caused the outbreak of the War of Spanish Succession?

Louis XIV confirmed his grandson as the new Spanish monarch.

The expansion of the transatlantic slave trade in the 1700s is best explained by which of the following developments?

Growth in European demand for New World agricultural products

Which of the following was most responsible for the steady population growth in 18th century Europe?

an overall decline in the death rate

By the end of the 17th century, absolute monarchy was most successfully implanted in what nation?

France

 After the defeat of King Charles I in the English Civil War and his execution in 1649, England was governed for a decade by

a protectorate led by Oliver Cromwell

In the Ottoman Empire, agricultural land was the personal hereditary property of

 

the sultan

Prior to the expansion of the factory system during the Industrial Revolution, which of the following contributed to the increase in production of manufactured goods?

expansion of cottage industries in the countryside

What were the three successive commercial empires in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries?

the Portuguese, the Spanish, and the Dutch

Which of the following was generally supported by the mercantilists?

development of colonies

Which of the following best explains European states' ability to dominate the world trade system in the 1700s?

Europe's continued superiority in naval and maritime technology

Which of the following statements best describes “divine right” theory?

Kings derived their power directly from God.

The Russian woodcut shown here (about 1698) symbolizes Peter the Great's

imposition of Western values on the Russian nobility

Trade and commerce brought the highest standard of living in seventeenth century Europe to the

Dutch

In early modern Europe, which of the following most directly undermined the guild system?

entrepreneurial expansion of manufacturing into the countryside

Despite all of Louis XIV's accomplishments, his greatest error was

persecuting French Protestants, the Huguenots.

Absolutist monarchs around Europe sought to copy the glamor and glory of

the Palace of Versailles

Confrontations between peasants and lords were primarily caused by peasant resentment of

traditional obligations made oppressive by a changing economy.

The Seven Years' War (1756-1763), although inconclusive in Europe, served as a decisive round in North American colonization between

France and Britain

In the seventeenth century, the Habsburg family had two main centers of power, Spain and

Austria.

Which of the following was NOT an aspect of mercantile theory?

increase the purchase of goods outside the nation

Which of the following best explains the increase in food supply in Europe in the 1700s?

The transfer of plant species from the Americas to Europe

All of the following describe peasant life in the seventeenth century EXCEPT

Peasants farmed crops and raised livestock for sale at the local marketplace.

Cook's voyages were primarily a result of which of the following eighteenth-century developments?

Competition among European powers to create commercial empires

Cook's observations concerning the material culture of the inhabitants of Australia most clearly reflect the influence of which of the following developments in Europe?

The expanded availability and use of consumer goods

The activities shown in image 2 were most directly a result of which of the following developments in France?

Louis's expansion of monarchical administrative and financial control over France

The presence of the aristocracy in both images most directly reflects a continuation of which of the following processes?

The preservation of the nobility's social status despite the absolutist authority of monarchs

The activities of Peter the Great shown in image 1 were most directly the result of which of the following?

Peter's efforts to westernize Russia

The passage above is a justification for which of the following?

transformation of common land into private land through enclosure

New techniques around what concept of the agricultural revolution of the 18th and early 19th century is considered in this passage?

animal husbandry

William's letter to Pope Innocent is best explained as an attempt to justify which of the following?

The outcome of the Glorious Revolution

William's description of his status within the English government is best explained by which of the following?

The assertion parliamentary supremacy over the monarchy in English government

William's claim regarding James's "design" in the first paragraph is best explained by which of the following developments?

Conflicts between the Catholic Stuart monarchy and Protestant interests in Parliament