********A.P. European History

Mid-Term Study guide******

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1. What writers extolled even exaggerated the form of human emotion and the search for one's realization of one's own identify?

 

2. What group of French Revolutionaries were associated with exporting the revolution?

 

3. Louis XIV and Colbert both utilized this economic policy. What policy and what are the principles of this system?

 

4. What is an enlightened monarch? What Austrian monarch best reflects such a monarch?

 

5. What is the price revolution and what caused such a revolution?

 

6. Why was Erasmus condemned by the Papacy?

 

7. Who was the most powerful Italian family in Renaissance Italy?

 

8. What does the term venacular mean? How did it decrease the power of the papacy?

 

9. What was the principle activity of Northern Europe during the Renaissance?

 

10. What conditions in Europe contributed to the growth of the Renaissance?

 

11. What issue was unresolved by the Peace of Augsburg (1555)?

 

12. What book did Machiavelli write? What is the thesis of this book?

 

13. What motivated the Portuguese to explore the coast of Africa?

 

14. What portion of society was most influenced by the witch-hunts?

 

15. Why did Charles I of England call Parliament into session?

 

16. Who created the Edict of Nantes? What were the conditions of the Edict?

 

17. What is the "Weber Thesis"? What does the phrase "Protestant Ethic" describe?

 

18. What are indulgences and who sold them in Germany?

 

19. Who were the Jesuits, and how did they support Catholicism?

 

20. Where was most of the Thirty ?years War fought?

 

21. Who championed the concept of experimental or inductive method?

 

22. Who wrote the Spirit of Laws,and what was the main thesis of this book?

 

23. What is the Copernican Revolution?

 

24. Define: "Cogito ergo sum". Why is Descartes' philosophy significant? (Remember Cartesian Dualism)

 

25. What is Unam Sanctum? What did it eventually lead to?

 

26. What is the main thesis of John Locke's Two Treatise on Government?

 

27. Why did England develop a constitutional monarchy?

 

28. Who stated "L'etat c'est moi" and what is the intended meaning?

 

29. What prevented England from becoming an absolute monarchy?

 

30. Who wrote The Book of the Courtier? What was the subject of the book?

 

31. Who created the Edict of Fountainbleau and what did the edict accomplish?

 

32. Who wrote a secular treatise on politics during the Renaissance? Name the book?

 

33. Which Prussian king enhanced the power of Brandenburg Prussia during the second half of the 17th century?

 

34. What was the objective of the Petition of Rights of 1628?

 

35. How are the Commercial Revolution and the Italian Renaissance related?

 

36. What did "cuius regio, eius religio" signify?

 

37. What did the parliament do in 1689 that signified their power within England?

 

38. What event has been classified as the cause of the Thirty Years War?

 

39. What was the effect of the Puritan Revolution of England?

 

40. Who wrote the Defense of the Seven Sacraments? What was the main thesis of the document?

 

41. What political and religious impact did the Peace of Augsburg have on Northern Germany?

 

42. What French king instituted the Edict of Nantes? What were the fundamental principles of the edict of Nantes?

 

43. Who assisted Henry VIII in enhancing monarchial controls during the 1530s?

 

44. Who was Madame de Pompadour?

 

45. What is the most significant contribution of the Scientific Revolution?

 

46. Who wrote Don Quixote? What was the reason?

 

47. What was Prides Purge? How did it impact English History?

 

48. What is Raison d' etat?

 

49. Who wrote the Weber Thesis? What did this Thesis attempt to explain?

 

50. What influenced the spread of Protestantism in Europe?

 

51. What conditions in the 17th century strengthened the concept of the absolute monarch?

 

52. Who saved Lutheranism during the Thirty Years War?

 

53. What conditions lead to the decline of Dutch Power in the 18th century?

 

54. Where did John Calvin establish the center of Calvinism?

 

55. How did Martin Luther view a womens role in society?

 

56. Who opposed the British Corn Laws of 1846 the most?

 

57. Which ancient philosopher's ideas were most discredited as a result of the Scientific Revolution?

 

58. What was the difference between the Italian humanists and the northern European humanists?

 

59. Why was the system of intendents established?

 

60. What territory did Prussia acquired in the mid-eighteenth century that helped Prussia establish itself as a Great Power?

 

61. What was an important consequence of the Glorious Revolution?

 

62. What did mercantilists support?

 

63. What were the cahiers? What did the cahiers call for?

 

64. What does the Napoleonic Code call for?

 

65. What did the Communist Manifesto assert?

 

66. Why were anabaptists condemned in the 16th century?

 

67. How did Descartes and Bacon contribute to the 17th century scientific revolution?

 

68. Why did Ferdinand and Isabella support the expulsion of the Muslims and Jews from Spain?

 

69. What was Martin Luther initially criticizing the church for?