Europe 1600-1800 Review

The Habsburgs worked to preserve which religious ideology?

• Catholicism

• Protestantism

• Judaism

• Calvinism

Peter the Great established the new capital in St. Petersburg, increased Russia's military power, and adopted new technology in order to

• Promote religious tolerance

• Encourage socialism

• Strengthen parliament's authority

• Support westernization

Louis XIV required all nobles to live part of the year at the Palace of Versailles in order to

• Force the nobles to be educated

• Limit religious influences over the nobles

• Maintain control over the nobles

• Give the nobles more power

Who argued for the right to life, liberty, and property?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Karl Marx

• Adam Smith

The English Bill of Rights of 1689 was signed as a direct result of

• The Glorious Revolution

• The English Civil War

• Stuart Restoration

• The end of the Tudor Dynasty

The belief that kings recieve their authority from and answer only to God is called

• Divine right

• Papal authority

• Protestantism

• Calvinism

Which modern country did Prussia and the Holy Roman Empire (Austria) compete to dominate

• Germany

• Italy

• England

• Spain

The guillotine is most closely associated with

• The reign of terror

• The English Civil War

• The rule of Napoleon

• The rule of Peter the Great

The concept of divine right was important to absolute monarchs because it

• Reserved government positions for clergy

• Guaranteed the rights of people

• Justified the king's right to rule

• Honored religious freedom

Which English ruler lost the English Civil War and was executed after the war

• Charles I

• Oliver Cromwell

• James II

• Charles II