Question 1

The French nobility accounted for 2 percent of the population but controlled approximately what percent of the total national income?

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A)  75 to 85 percent
B)  60 to 70 percent
C)  50 percent
D)  20 to 30 percent
E)  15 percentF) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 2

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 Spanish Armada

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The Spanish Armada refers to a large nav...

Question 3

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 constitutional monarchy

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Constitutional Monarchy

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Question 4

In the Middle Ages, the power of the king was restricted by all the following EXCEPT

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A)  the nobility.
B)  townspeople.
C)  the peasantry.
D)  the church.
E)  representative institutions.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 5

By the 1660s, France had

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A)  enjoyed a significant victory in the Thirty Years' War.
B)  emerged as Europe's leading power.
C)  weathered the Fronde .
D)  achieved absolutism.
E)  all of the aboveF) All of the above
G) D) and E)

Question 6

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 Treaty of Westphalia

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Question 7

According to the text, the War of Spanish Succession

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A)  kept the Spanish crown in the House of Hapsburg.
B)  was fought throughout the Spanish Empire.
C)  ended with a clear French victory.
D)  made Austria into a major force in Europe and started England's rise to world power status.
E)  caused the English and the Dutch to end the alliance formed in the Glorious Revolution.F) B) and C)
G) A) and C)

Question 8

The Thirty Years' War that devastated the Holy Roman Empire began when

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A)  the Bohemians chose a Protestant as their king.
B)  the Swedish king Gustavus Augustus attacked the Empire.
C)  Charles V retired to a monastery.
D)  Jan Hus challenged the authority of the Catholic church.
E)  Savoy, the Palatine, and the United Provinces united against the House of Hapsburg.F) B) and C)
G) B) and E)

Question 9

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 Versailles

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Question 10

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 intendants

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Question 11

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 Hapsburgs

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Question 12

Elizabeth I of England married

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A)  Philip II of Spain.
B)  Henry III of France.
C)  James VI of Scotland.
D)  William of Orange.
E)  none of the aboveF) C) and D)
G) D) and E)

Question 13

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  Locate and label two states with absolute monarchies and two of the most important of the non-absolutist states as of 1700.

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Question 14

The absolutist French monarchy did each of the following EXCEPT

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A)  dispatch road engineers from Paris to the provinces.
B)  require local officials to look to the central government for direction.
C)  control coal manufacturing.
D)  show particular concern for cultural development within France.
E)  confiscate the wealth of the aristocracy.F) None of the above
G) B) and E)

Question 15

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  Mark the border between Christian and Muslim lands on the Iberian peninsula in the ninth century and in 1200.

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Question 16

In the Glorious Revolution, William of Orange and the Dutch accepted the invitation of the English Parliament because it would secure their

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A)  hopes to regain the lead in European commerce.
B)  need for support against Louis XIV's France.
C)  need for support against the renewal of Spanish attempts to recover the Netherlands.
D)  hopes of acquiring large grants of land seized from Catholic nobles in Ireland.
E)  expectation that some of England's New World colonies would eventually devolve to the Dutch.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 17

In its early centuries, the Holy Roman Empire failed to develop a powerful centralized government because

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A)  the Emperors were preoccupied with northern Italy and the Papacy.
B)  the Emperors were elected.
C)  the main princes were fiercely independent.
D)  the nobility was able to consolidate its control over local populations.
E)  all of the aboveF) D) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 18

The only state that broke with the pattern of king-army-taxes as the key to the creation of a centralized state was

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A)  Britain
B)  the Dutch Republic
C)  France
D)  Prussia
E)  SpainF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 19

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 Hohenzollerns

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Question 20

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Explain how religion both aided and impeded the consolidation of the modern state.

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Exam 16: The Rise of Sovereignty: Transition to the Modern State

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According to the text, the War of Spanish Succession

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The French nobility accounted for 2 percent of the population but controlled approximately what percent of the total national income?

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Elizabeth I of England married

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