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WorksheetsAP Euro Unit 4
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
He emphasized the need for a separation of powers to prevent despotism (unbridled and oppressive exercise of power). In his Spirit of the Law (published in 1748), he suggested a separation into 3 branches: legislative to make the laws, judicial to interpret the laws and executive to enforce the laws.
Rousseau
Montesquieu
Locke
Hobbes
This philosophe developed the idea for 'consent of the governed' (a government's legitimacy and the moral right to use state power is only justified when it is consented to by those governed). He believed that the laws of a state/country would be formed by the general will (the desires and wants of the people who made them). He published Contrat Social in 1762.
Rousseau
Locke
Montesquieu
Voltaire
This group of economists believe that the primary goal of government is to protect property and allow owners to use it freely. They were proponents of free trade and opposed mercantilist policies because they believed that it hampered development. Some examples are Francois Quesnay, Turgot and Pierre DuPont de Nemours.
The philosophes
The empiricists
The jurists
The physiocrats
A Sottish economist, he supported abolishing trading limits, trade regulaions and tariffs. He was a proponent of the free market (laissez faire). His book, The Wealth of Nations (published in 1776), influenced many future economists and earned him the reputation as a founder of Capitalism.
Francois Quesnay
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Adam Smith
Wrote a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). Defended equality of women with men based on human reason. Argued if women had access to the same educational opportunities as men, they would be equally as intelligent.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Catherine the Great
Maria Therea of Austria
Emilie du Chatelet
Enlightenment thinker who advocated for humane treatment of prisoners and was against the death penalty. Wrote On Crimes and Punishments (1764).
Baruch Spinoza
Cesare Beccaria
Francois Quesnay
David Hume
How did the invention of the printing press help the Reformation?
Inexpensive Bibles printed allowed more people to read them.
People could read translations of the Bible in their language.
It allowed reformers to spread their ideas.
All of these are correct
How did the Catholic Church combat the Protestant Reformation?
They discussed and affirmed Church teaching at the Council of Trent and corrected problems like the lack of educated priests and corruption.
A new more personal form of spirituality developed
Religious orders like the Jesuits and Discalced Carmelites grew quickly and provided education to combat heresy and were a source of piety, something the Church had been lacking.
All these are correct
Philip II sent the ________ to DESTROY England in 1588.
Spanish Armada
The Conquistadors
Pizarro and Cortez
Spanish Inquisition
Who was the monarch of England when Phillip II went to war with his Spanish Armada and lost?
Mary of Scots
Elizabeth I
James I
Charles I
What was the Defenestration of Prague?
Protestants hurled Catholic officials out a window
the destruction of Prague
the pillaging by Czechs of Prague
Catholic killings of Protestant in Prague
The Thirty Year's War is a conflict between...
Rigby and Mordecai
Catholics and Protestants
Lutherans and Calvinists
Muslims and Christians
This Enlightenment thinker is known for his advocacy of freedom of speech and religion, and his criticism of the Catholic Church. He famously said, 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'
A) John Locke
B) Voltaire
C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
D) Denis Diderot
Which 18th-century economic theory emphasized the importance of agriculture and believed that wealth came from the land? This theory was in opposition to mercantilism and was supported by thinkers like Francois Quesnay.
A) Capitalism
B) Socialism
C) Physiocracy
D) Feudalism
This scientific revolution figure is known for his laws of motion and universal gravitation, which laid the groundwork for classical mechanics. His work, 'Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy,' was published in 1687.
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Johannes Kepler
C) Isaac Newton
D) Nicolaus Copernicus
