Chapter 18: The Transformation Of The West, 1450-1750

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The major transformation of Western European society began with the
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Renaissance
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The Renaissance in Western Europe
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challenged medieval values and intellectual constructs
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The Renaissance was largely influenced and financed by
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the urban environment and commercial economy
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Renaissance humanism would have been most comfortable with the values and ideas of which world belief system?
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Hellenism
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The Protestant Reformation in Germany was equally a religious and political revolution because it challenged all of these authorities EXCEPT the:
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noble and aristocratic class structure within society
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The fragmentation of Christianity during the Reformation into Catholics and Protestants most closely resembles the
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Sunni-Shi'a divisions within Islam over political leadership of the Muslim community
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In Western Europe following the religious wars in the 16th and 17th centuries,
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the different Christian sects accepted a limited toleration of other groups
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Changes during the Reformation influenced all of these developments EXCEPT:
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abolishment of classes and social hierarchies
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The cause of the massive inflation in the 16th century Europe was the
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large imports of gold and silver from overseas colonies
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The growing commercialization of Western Europe's economy and the Price Revolution most negatively impacted the
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peasants, serfs, and the working poor
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The chief challenge in West Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries CE to the predominance and the traditional role of religion and theology as the primary influence on formal intellectual life was
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the scientist and scientific experimentation
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The 17th century Scientific Revolution in West Europe built heavily on
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Greek rational philosophies and classical scientists such as Aristotle
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In early modern Europe, in order to secure their predominant political positions within their states, West European rulers had to
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limit the rights of nobles and privileges of their institutions
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West European monarchs employed all of these methods or groups to win "absolute" control over their states EXCEPT:
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allowing representative assemblies to make and pass laws
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Mercantilism differs from capitalism because mercantilism
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promotes the wealth of a national economy at the expense of free trade
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A nation-state differs from an empire or many medieval states because it
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rules a state with one dominant people, government, language, and culture
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The major difference between the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution was that Enlightenment philosophies
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applied scientific methods to benefit society at large