Unit V Exam Review

What does this timeline represent?

• the appointment of religious leaders to prominent positions in government

• the growing influence of the idea of divine rights in government

• 
  how the Industrial Revolution increased the power of the people

• 
  how new ideas shifted power from monarchs to the people over time

Use the chart to answer the question.

Which period of European history are these philosophers associated with?

• the Crusades

• the Enlightenment

• the Great Schism

• the Protestant Reformation

Read the definition and answer the question.

• Divine right: political doctrine that kings derived their right to rule from God

• In sixteenth-to-eighteenth-century Europe, what was the theory of divine right most often used to justify?

• democratic protests

• absolute monarchies

• the power of the pope

• communist revolutions

Why did Tsar Peter the Great seek to consolidate power in Russia?

• to facilitate a break from the Catholic Church

• to bring an end to a period of civil war in Russia

• to increase Russia's ability to capture new territory and expand its empire

• to eliminate obstacles to the modernization and westernization of Russia

Which geographic problem contributed to Napoleon's fall from power?

• The unsuccessful winter campaign in Russia exposed Napoleon's army to extreme cold.

• The French army's inability to master guerrilla warfare led to its defeat in the Peninsular War.

• France was unable to trade with Britain due to a blockade maintained by the Spanish Armada.

• Napoleon's attempt to conquer Britain's territory in North America stretched his resources too much.

How did the French people react when Napoleon crowned himself emperor?

• This decision deeply divided the country.

• They feared another absolute ruler and revolted.

• People did not agree but were too afraid to rebel.

• Napoleon was so popular that they supported him.

Why did most people have trouble accepting Copernicus's heliocentric theory when it was introduced?

• His belief that the sun revolved around the Earth went against Catholic teachings.

• His belief that the planets revolved around the sun went against Catholic teachings.

• His belief that the stars stayed in the sky during the day went against Catholic teachings.

• His belief that the universe was created by the big bang went against Catholic teachings.

What method did both Peter the Great and Louis XIV use to consolidate power during their reigns?

• They made the pope convince their people that they were chosen by God.

• They extended new rights and personal freedoms to commoners.

• They removed powerful nobles from government positions.

• They concentrated ruling power in a few families.

Whose philosophy MOST influenced the people who fought for Haitian independence from France?

• European imperialists

• Enlightenment thinkers

• American abolitionists

• Mexican revolutionaries

What does the timeline illustrate?

• the lasting effects of US imperialism

• the lasting effects of the Enlightenment

• the lasting effects of the Reformation

• the lasting effects of industrialization