HY-102 EXAM 1 | 131 QUESTIONS AND
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The extraordinary movement of peoples, plants, animals, goods, cultures, and diseases in the
sixteenth century is called the - ANS Columbian Exchange
The population of early North American colonies grew because - ANS indentured servants
came over in large numbers to work in the colonies
Much of the wealth derived from colonies in the Americas came from - ANS sugar
forms NOT used to resist slave owners in the sixteenth century - ANS underground railroads
forms used to resist slave owners in the sixteenth century - ANS infanticides, suicides, revolts
The driving cause of the inflation experienced in Europe during the last half of the sixteenth
century was - ANS an influx of silver on the Spanish market
European monarchs were forced to raise taxes precipitously in the sixteenth century because
taxes collected in an inflationary period yielded less actual wealth and because - ANS the
cost of waging war was becoming increasingly expensive
recognized Catholicism as the official religion of France but allowed Protestants certain rights -
ANS The Edict of Nantes
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The Dutch revolt was sparked by - ANS Philip II attempting to tighten his control of the Dutch
cities
England challenged Spanish supremacy in the Atlantic by - ANS attacking Spanish ships that
were sailing from their colonies to Spain
Alliances in the latter half of the Thirty Years' War were largely based on - ANS current
political needs
The primary goal of Cardinal Richelieu's government was to - ANS increase and centralize
royal power over France
Charles I's death sent shockwaves through Europe because - ANS it was the first time a
reigning king had been legally tried and executed for treason by his subjects
The English Civil War affected English colonies in the New World by - ANS allowing them a
large degree of independence
The confusion caused by the discovery and European colonization in the New World was
expressed in Europe by all of these - ANS the increasing prevalence of the idea that no
political or religious system was flawless, the witch craze, the production of plays that raised
questions about relative morality like Shakespeare's The Tempest
In the theory of absolutism found in Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, the goal of the sovereign state
is to - ANS preserve people's lives
The uncertainty and crises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries over time produced -
ANS more strongly centralized states
"Science" entails all of the following - ANS a system of inquiry
a community of practitioners