AP Euro Final Exam Review PART 1

The graph above best supports which of the following statements?

• The Industrial Revolution destroyed the standard of living of the working classes.

• The ideas associated with the Renaissance and the Reformation encouraged the English to have large families.

• During the eighteenth century, the English population suffered substantially from periodic famines.

• The English population increased in the seventeenth century despite civil wars and revolution.

• During the late eighteenth century, the English population grew faster than it had from 1450 to 1600.

The term "humanism," when applied to Renaissance Italy, refers primarily to the:

• renewed interest in the scientific method at many Italian universities

• capitalist values advanced by leading Italian merchant bankers

• anti-religious movement among leading Italian intellectuals

• scholarly interest in the study of the classical cultures of Greece and Rome

• non-Christian themes that became prominent in Italian art and literature

Which of the following beliefs was central to Martin Luther's religious philosophy?

• Salvation by faith alone

• Saints as intermediaries between the individual Christian and God

• The sacrament of penance

•  The priesthood defined as distinct from the laity

• The equality of men and women

The passage most accurately describes:

• Lorenzo de' Medici

• John Calvin

• William of Orange

• Frederick William I

During the Thirty Years' War, France pursued a policy of:

• supporting the Hapsburgs against the Protestant princes and rulers

• allowing French Protestants to fight for the Protestants even though the monarchy supported the Roman Catholics

• remaining neutral

• opposing England in order to recapture Normandy

• supporting the Protestant princes and rulers against the Hapsburgs

Galileo was found guilty of heresy and condemned by the Inquisition on the grounds that he:

• left the Roman Catholic Church and became a Protestant

• used his telescope to explore the heavens

• actively supported the Gallican cause in France against papal supremacy

• publicly advocated Copernicus' heliocentric system

• discovered the law of universal gravitation

English entrepreneurs financed the establishment of its colony in India primarily through:

• subsidies and loans from the royal family

• private funds from the creation of joint-stock companies

• investment funds from European national banks

• profits received from pirate activities and attacks on Spanish fleets

What were the three political entities in central and eastern Europe in the mid-17th century?

• The Holy Roman Empire, the French kingdom, and Muscovy

• The Holy Roman Empire, the Baltic states, and the Dutch Republic

• Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

• The Baltic states, the Italian city-states, and the Ottoman Empire

• The French kingdom, the Ottoman Empire, and Poland

The enclosure movement in eighteenth-century England did which of the following?

• Provided cheap housing for the rural poor.

• Secured the nation's coastal defenses.

• Initiated a program of church-building throughout the country.

• Encouraged the development of market oriented agricultural production.

• Barred Roman Catholic heirs from the throne.

Which religion directly links with the rise in influence of the Dutch Empire?

• Lutheranism

• Anglicanism

• Catholicism

• Calvinism

• Presbyterianism