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

• Rivalries between Catholic and Protestant countries to gain converts overseas

• Competition among European powers to create commercial empires

• Private support for scientific exploration

• Efforts to secure new sources of labor for industrialization

The events referred to in the song led most directly to which of the following?

• The restoration of the Bourbon monarchy

• The formalization of a constitutional monarchy in France

• The creation of a republican government in France

• The installation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French

The poissardes and other participants in the events described in the song were motivated most strongly by which of the following?

• The fear that Enlightenment ideas about government would undermine the basis of monarchy

• An economic crisis brought about by food shortages

• The desire to institute free-market principles in the French economy

• The failure of France to gain substantial advantages from its wars with Britain

As a result of actions during the French Revolution based in the sentiment expressed above, Europeans began to view position in the social class structure as

based on...

• the product of effort and talent rather than birth.

• a permanent condition resulting from birth.

• a condition that had no meaning.

• a result of heredity and family connections.

Because of critiques of society like those above, in comparison to the Glorious Revolution, the French Revolution resulted in

• more limited monarchy.

• radical economic reform.

• More significant social change.

• greater protection of rights.

The European powers splitting Poland shared all of the following traits EXCEPT

• maintaining large overseas commercial empires

• continuous competition for authority over surrounding peoples

• extensive use of serfdom as the primary system of labor

• apolication of some enlightened ideas like religious toleration and abolition of torture

What economic activity was used to supplement incomes in agricultural societies?

• Tenant Farming

• The putting out system

• Crop rotation

• Farmer’s markets

In #6 above, de Gouge is referencing which earlier work of the Enlightenment?

• Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws

• Locke's Second Treatise of Government

• Rousseau's The Sacial Contract

• Voltaire's Candide

The main reason the Frederick the Great of Prussia admitted Huguenots into his country after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 was to:

• strengthen what was a poor, agricultural state with manufacturing and trade.

• provoke war with Louis XIV in order to gain French territory.

• entice enough Protestants to Prussia to outnumber the Roman Catholic in the country

• expand the number of Junkers (nobles) in Prussia

Which of the following economic developments is best reflected in the passage above?

• Capitalism

• Subsistence agriculture

• Mercantilism

• Serfdom