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WorksheetsDL Chapter 18 (Transformation of the West, 1450–1750)
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 26mins
Which of these men was a political theorist of the Renaissance?
Filippo Brunelleschi
Francesco Petrarch
Niccolo Machiavelli
Johannes Gutenberg
One of the most important patrons of the Northern Renaissance was ________.
Louis XIV
Martin Luther
Francis I
Frederick the Great
What is the most famous innovation of Johannes Gutenberg?
the wind mill
the compass
the caravel
movable type
The 95 theses were proposed by ________.
Henry VIII
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Jan Hus
Which of these was the movement that included Lutheranism and Calvinism?
Catholicism
Anglicanism
Protestantism
predestination
Which of these founded a Protestant sect in Geneva?
Martin Luther
Jean Calvin
Huldrych Zwingli
Ignatius Loyola
Which of these was a religious order founded under the Catholic Reformation?
Jesuits
Carmelites
Benedictines
Franciscans
The Edict of Nantes ended religious conflict in ________.
the Holy Roman Empire
England
France
Italy
The Thirty Years War was centered in________.
Germany
Spain
France
England
The proletariat were ________.
farmers
serfs
urban skilled workers
workers without any property
The height of witchcraft persecutions came in what period?
1480 to 1530
1375 to 1395
1590 to 1650
1670 to 1685
Which of these emerged in the seventeenth century?
French Revolution
Scientific Revolution
Black Death
Enlightenment
In what field did Nicolaus Copernicus work?
anatomy
chemistry
theology
astronomy
Johannes Kepler contributed to our understanding of ________.
planetary motion
gravity
the moon
stem power
Which of these pioneered the use of the telescope in astronomy?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Francis Bacon
Galileo Galilei
William Harvey pioneered work investigating ________.
planetary motion
the circulatory system
weaving machines
engines
The author of Principia Mathematica was ________.
René Descartes
Isaac Newton
Francis Bacon
Galileo Galilei
Which of these men was an English philosopher who placed his faith in reason?
John Locke
Francis Bacon
Adam Smith
Denis Diderot
The French government in the seventeenth century was a(n)________.
republic
constitutional monarchy
absolute monarchy
empire
Which of these was ruler of France for most of the seventeenth century?
Louis XVI
Henry IV
Louis XIV
Charles VII
Frederick the Great was ruler of ________.
Russia
the Holy Roman Empire
Prussia
France
The dominant intellectual movement of the eighteenth century was ________.
the Renaissance
the Scientific Revolution
Romanticism
the Enlightenment
Adam Smith worked in what field?
economics
astronomy
botany
physics
Denis Diderot is most famous for what work?
Journal des Dames
Principia Mathematica
the Encyclopédie
The Starry Messenger
Mary Wollstonecraft is best known as a(n) ________.
artist
feminist
doctor
scientist
The roots of humanism were in the ________.
Catholic church
Crusades
voyages of exploration
classical past
In the 1500s, which of these regions lost its longstanding lead in European commerce?
Italy
Spain
Portugal
England
The _________ of the Northern Renaissance distinguished it from the Italian Renaissance.
goals
methods
focus
philosophy
Which of these was Martin Luther’s goal in posting his 95 theses?
revolution
reform
war
schism
The main motivation for forming the Anglican church was ________.
spiritual
political
diplomatic
economic
Looking at Map 18.1 on p. 410, “Western Europe During the Renaissance and Reformation,” it is clear that in this period ________.
Protestantism has not spread beyond Germany
the home of Protestantism was in Mediterranean nations
most of western Europe was still Catholic
Protestantism had spread to most of Europe
The Thirty Years War can be characterized as a ________.
religious conflict
civil war
war of aggression
defensive war
The English Civil War was part of what larger development?
the Northern Renaissance
English imperialism
the Enlightenment
seventeenth-century wars of religion
Map 18.2 on p. 412, “Europe Under Absolute Monarchy,” shows ________ in 1715.
the dominance of Catholicism
the emergence of two large power blocs in Europe
Italian decline
the disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire
The proletariat were useful as ________.
laborers
consumers
small farmers
skilled laborers
Looking at Map 18.3 on p. 414, “European Population Density,” which of these patterns is illustrated?
Population density was lower in Protestant than in Catholic countries.
The Slavic lands generally had high population densities.
Population density was much higher in western than in eastern Europe.
Muslim land had higher population densities than Christian lands.
Which of these contexts best explains the spike in witchcraft persecutions?
the Scientific Revolution
the Enlightenment
enlightened absolutism
wars of religion
The first steps in the Scientific Revolution were taken in what domain?
scientific method
astronomy
logic
medicine
Galileo and Descartes represent what two aspects of the Scientific Revolution?
support for and resistance to scientific innovation
traditional scientific methods versus more innovative
methods
innovation in scientific technology and approaches
the moderns and the ancients
The scientific method was marked by an increasing reliance on ________.
reason
technology
Asian advances
university-trained intellectuals
Unlike monarchies around 800, monarchies around 1700 were ________.
passed on by inheritance
states
more dependent on the nobility
smaller
In the context of politics, France and England represent ________.
a novel idea and its fulfillment
similar developments
two distinct strands of development
the origins of capitalism
Parliamentary monarchies can be said to have been ________ medieval political developments.
a new direction away from
a rejection of
the end of
further developments in
The Enlightenment grew naturally out of ________.
technologies discovered in the Scientific Revolution
the ideologies of the Scientific Revolution
the Protestant Reformation
the voyages of discovery
Opportunities for women in the eighteenth century were ________.
increasing
expanding dramatically
unchanging
disappearing
Which of these arguably had the broadest impact in the period of the Enlightenment?
rising literacy
the scientific method
new religious outlooks
warfare
Which of these grew as an indirect outcome of changes in agricultural methods in the 1700s?
commerce
scientific developments
improved farm yields
the proletariat
In the context of European Christianity, the level of religious conflict in the 1600s and 1700s was ________.
typical
extremely high
unusually low
higher than usual
Which of these distinguished Newton from earlier scientists of the seventeenth century?
use of the scientific method
consideration of planetary motion
development of a comprehensive model
his ethnicity
Which of these Enlightenment principles is most clearly the product of the Scientific Revolution?
new ideas about women
atheism
the idea of natural rights
a new faith in reason
