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Chapter 3 Quiz
The Crises of the Seventeenth Century
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Intendants were
Royal representatives sent into rural France
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Rural representatives to France's Estates General
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Representatives of local nobility
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Local police
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French magnates were
Bureaucrats based in Versailles
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Wealthy regional leaders
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Military leaders
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Minor rural officeholders
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Louis XIV's courtiers were made up of
Nobles
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His closest advisers
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Middle class bureaucrats
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Primarily the royal family
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How can you tell from this painting that the frozen river was unusual for Antwerp?
There are no people venturing onto the river
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There are obvious safety precautions
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The structures on it are temporary
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The river in the image isn't frozen
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Seventeenth century scientists believed the Little Ice Age was caused by
God's wrath
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Volcanic eruptions
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Low levels of solar flares
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All of the above
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The weather pattern that irrigates Asian crops and keeps European weather warm is
The sunspot cycle
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El Niño
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Global warming
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La Niña
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The Thirty Years' War was particularly devastating because it coincided with
The War of Spanish Succession
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The English Civil War
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The French Revolution
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The Little Ice Age
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Russia's Time of Troubles ended with
The Bolshevik Revolution
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Michael Romanov becoming tsar
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The Russian Revolution
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The reign of Peter the Great
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The Cossacks blamed _______ for their problems.
The weak Polish monarchy
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The Russian invasion of Poland
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Greedy Polish magnates
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The Jews
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The Edict of Nantes had allowed _______ to worship freely.
Catholics
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Huguenots
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Puritans
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Jews
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The Fronde convinced Louis XIV that
France needed to conquer Europe
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France needed a legislative assembly
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He needed to rule as well as reign
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That the military were the greatest threat to his power
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The idea that kings ruled absolutely because they ruled in God's name is called
Absolutism
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Constitutionalism
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The social contract
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The divine right of kings
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The War of Spanish Succession was fought in
Europe
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North America
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India
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All of the above
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The version of Protestantism that became the official church in England was
Anglicanism
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Puritanism
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Catholicism
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Calvinism
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English Puritans objected to Anglican
Rejection of holding traditional church services
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Elaborate rituals and buildings
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Rejection of the Catholic Church
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Strict rules of behavior
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The two sides in the English Civil War were the
Yorks and Lancasters
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Royalists and parliamentary
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Hatfields and McCoys
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Scots and English
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Oliver Cromwell was the leader of
The French Huguenots
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Royalist forces in the English Civil War
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Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War
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English forces in the French and Indian War
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The New Model Army was
A Protestant religious cult
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A Puritan military force
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The Parliamentary army
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A militia group who sided with King Charles I
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The Levellers demanded
An end to Catholicism
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A unified, Anglican nation
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A return to Catholicism
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Religious toleration
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The Glorious Revolution
Instituted total religious toleration
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Limited the powers of Parliament
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Limited the powers of the king
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All of the above
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