European History Quiz

What was the purpose of most of the joint-stock companies during the 1500s and 1600s?

• Financing wars in Asia and Africa

• Funding colonies in the Americas

• Paying for the building of slave ships

• Funding the exploration and extraction of gold/silver

What was one result of the loss of native lives to disease?

• The ruin of several tobacco and sugar cane plantations

• A growing tolerance between the colonists and the natives

• Fewer battles between the colonists and natives over land

• A severe shortage of labor in the colonies

According to the policy of mercantilism, how could a nation increase its wealth?

• It should center its wealth and power in its government.

• It should spread its wealth and power among private individuals.

• It should export more than it imports.

• It should import more than it exports.

The new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of the individual to solve problems was the...

• Scientific Revolution

• Enlightenment

• Great Awakening

• Geocentric theory

The willingness of people to hand over their rights to a ruler in exchange for law and order in society was called the...

• Scientific method

• Magna Carta

• Enlightenment

• Social contract

The philosopher who believed that all people are born free and equal, with the rights to life, liberty and property was...

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Galileo Galilei

• Baron de Montesquieu

This was the 1st global war; fighting took place in Europe, India and North America.

• Seven Years War

• Thirty Years War

• Scientific Revolution

This war was sparked when the devoutly Catholic ruler of Bohemia, Ferdinand II, closed Protestant churches causing the Protestants to protest.

• Seven Years War

• Thirty Years War

• Scientific Revolution

• Peninsular War

What happened as a result of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?

• France and Britain agreed to govern their African colonies jointly.

• There was less fighting between African leaders and European powers.

• African leaders voiced their suggestions for better relations with European powers.

• Europeans divided Africa into colonies without consulting African leaders.

An interest in or taking of land for its strategic location or products is called...

• assimilation

• internationalism

• the race for empire

• geopolitics