Unit 3 exam review

What were Louis XIV's motives regarding children in article 8?

• Assuming protestant parents would not comply, he used fines as a way to make money for the kingdom

• Since his goal was one faith in France,baptizing, and then converting the next generation would be a step in guaranteeing his goal

• If children were baptized, parents would be less likely to revolt against his edict

• He was looking for an excuse to wipe out the protestants in France

The ideas expressed in the passage BEST illustrate which of the following tenets of mercantilist thought?

• The state should not interfere with merchants

• Imports were acceptable as long as they exceeded exports

• A state's control of its economy would enhance its power and wealth

• The state should set up monopolies over colonial market

Which of the following future Russian leaders would be most opposed to peter's rule, as outlined in these three passages?

• Lenin

• Catherine the great

• Stalin

• Gorbachev

How does the image best represents the consequences of the agricultural revolution?

• The peasants improved their standard of living due to the higher harvest yields

• Fences were placed in fields to keep peasants from destroying crops due to their hatred of the gentry

• They gentry cleared the peasants off their land in order to specialize their fields using new agricultural techniques

• Wheat was the only crop that was a major feature of the agricultural revolution

In what country does this image take place?

• Spain

• France

• Russia

• England

Which of the following theorists would be the most supportive of the Triennial Act?

• Thomas hobbes

• Machiavelli

• John Locke

• Karl Marx

Which of the following British Historical documents gave the court the strongest precedent for accusing King Charles of treason against his own people?

• The act of supremacy

• The magna Carta

• The domesday book

• Leviathan

Mun's economic argument was MOST similar to which of the following processes at work in 17th century?

• The growth of increasingly centralized and powerful monarchies

• A steady rise in prices that lowered the standard of living

• The growth of the cottage industry

• The decentralization experienced by the holy roman empire following the Thirty Year War

Economists today might argue that Quesnay's views are irrelevant for all the following reasons EXCEPT

• Quesnay did not seem to anticipate the driving force of nationalism, born of the coming french revolution, as a unifying force for all the social classes.

• The physiocrats lived in france which had a largely agrarian economy rooted in a feudal political system

• It is difficult to understand the economy according to social scientific terms due to the amount of greed and corruption that existed within financial system of the 18th century

• Quesnay did not yet understand the massive social, political, and economic change that would come as a result of industrialization

Thomas hobbes wrote during the time of king charles I of enlgand and the english civil war. For hobbes, the most significant danger for the society was which of the following

• A powerful king who refused to share power with an elected parliament

• the breakdown of law and order that would occur without a strong central authority

• The rise of litigious society which kept businesses and the state from accomplishing goals

• The rise of a catholic monarchy in england