Western Civ II JCJC Midterm Exam questions
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________ first argued that the sun is at the corner of the solar system. - ✔✔Nicolaus
Copernicus
________ proved that the planets followed elliptical orbits. - ✔✔Johannes Kepler
Galileo's scientific work helped lay the foundation for which modern discipline? -
✔✔Physics
________ helped transform alchemy to chemistry. - ✔✔Robert Boyle
________ showed that blood circulates throughout the body. - ✔✔William Harvey
Empiricism is based on ________. - ✔✔Observation
________ was the main advocate of deductive reasoning. - ✔✔Descartes
_______ wrote Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. - ✔✔Newton
________ is the belief that God exists but is not active in the world. - ✔✔Mechanical
Philosophy
, ________ was a French philosopher that argued faith was superior to reason. -
✔✔Pascal
________ was an English noblewoman who wrote scientific and philosophical treatises.
- ✔✔Margaret Cavendish
Who founded the Quakers? - ✔✔George Fox
Who was the British naval officer that claimed the eastern coast of Australia for Great
Britain? - ✔✔Captain James Cook
What country originally claimed much of Canada, as well as the Ohio and Mississippi
River valleys? - ✔✔France
________ is fundamentally a form of protectionism. - ✔✔Mercantile
What two countries fought in the War of Jenkins' Ear? - ✔✔Britain and Spain
The Treaty of Paris (1763) ended what conflict? - ✔✔Seven Years' War
What commodity dominated the trans-Atlantic trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries? - ✔✔Sugar
The part of the slave trade that included the voyage across the Atlantic was know as
what? - ✔✔Middle Passage
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________ first argued that the sun is at the corner of the solar system. - ✔✔Nicolaus
Copernicus
________ proved that the planets followed elliptical orbits. - ✔✔Johannes Kepler
Galileo's scientific work helped lay the foundation for which modern discipline? -
✔✔Physics
________ helped transform alchemy to chemistry. - ✔✔Robert Boyle
________ showed that blood circulates throughout the body. - ✔✔William Harvey
Empiricism is based on ________. - ✔✔Observation
________ was the main advocate of deductive reasoning. - ✔✔Descartes
_______ wrote Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. - ✔✔Newton
________ is the belief that God exists but is not active in the world. - ✔✔Mechanical
Philosophy
, ________ was a French philosopher that argued faith was superior to reason. -
✔✔Pascal
________ was an English noblewoman who wrote scientific and philosophical treatises.
- ✔✔Margaret Cavendish
Who founded the Quakers? - ✔✔George Fox
Who was the British naval officer that claimed the eastern coast of Australia for Great
Britain? - ✔✔Captain James Cook
What country originally claimed much of Canada, as well as the Ohio and Mississippi
River valleys? - ✔✔France
________ is fundamentally a form of protectionism. - ✔✔Mercantile
What two countries fought in the War of Jenkins' Ear? - ✔✔Britain and Spain
The Treaty of Paris (1763) ended what conflict? - ✔✔Seven Years' War
What commodity dominated the trans-Atlantic trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries? - ✔✔Sugar
The part of the slave trade that included the voyage across the Atlantic was know as
what? - ✔✔Middle Passage
