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. Louis XIV embodied a form of kingship known as

constitutionalism correct incorrect

pluralism correct incorrect

absolutism correct incorrect

monarchism correct incorrect

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. The new capital of Russia, constructed on land won from Sweden, was called

Moscow correct incorrect

St. Petersburg correct incorrect

Leningrad correct incorrect

Constantinople correct incorrect

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. The two sides in the English Civil War were the

royalists, made up of Catholics, and the parliamentary, made up of Presbyterians and Independents correct incorrect

royalists, made up of Catholics, and the independents, made up of Presbyterians and Protestants correct incorrect

royalists, made up of Anglicans, and the parliamentary, made up of Catholics and Independents correct incorrect

royalists, made up of Anglicans, and the parliamentary, made up of Presbyterians and Independents correct incorrect

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. French kings raised money by

raising taxes correct incorrect

selling government offices correct incorrect

conquering other countries correct incorrect

selling government bonds correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not a strategy Russia used to maintain control of its territory?

the czars’ children married members of local elite families correct incorrect

local elites were given positions in government correct incorrect

local elites were required to serve in the military correct incorrect

subjects were permitted a great deal of cultural and religious autonomy correct incorrect

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. English tax revenue soared after the civil wars when

trade embargoes were lifted correct incorrect

elite members of society were subject to taxation correct incorrect

tax collection was conducted by salaried officials correct incorrect

soldiers returned to their farms correct incorrect

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. Louis VIV made French nobles wealthier and more powerful (not weaker, as historians once thought) by

bringing them to Versailles correct incorrect

refusing to convene the Estates correct incorrect

relying on tax farming correct incorrect

discouraging military service correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not part of the Ottomans’ effort to secure the monarchy’s power?

their conversion to Islam correct incorrect

the emperors’ refusal to marry correct incorrect

the use of slaves to fill the highest government and military positions correct incorrect

fratricide correct incorrect

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. When James, the heir to the throne in Britain, converted to Catholicism, he was opposed in Parliament by the

Independents correct incorrect

Tories correct incorrect

Puritans correct incorrect

Whigs correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not a reason that German states did not need to sell government offices, as Spain and France did?

the diets were able and willing to raise taxes correct incorrect

they had abstained from warfare before 1500 correct incorrect

the German Protestant tradition frowned upon princely excess correct incorrect

there were plenty of young men with humanistic educations and legal training readily available to staff the new bureaucracies correct incorrect

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. Sweden’s parliament was called the

Vasa correct incorrect

Riksdag correct incorrect

Diet correct incorrect

Stadholder correct incorrect

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. The British Bill of Rights, agreed to by William and Mary after the Glorious Revolution, created a

constitutional monarchy correct incorrect

absolute monarchy correct incorrect

representative democracy correct incorrect

democratic republic correct incorrect

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. Early modern Prussia was held back by its

occupation by Sweden during the Thirty Years War correct incorrect

obstructionist assembly, the Estates correct incorrect

almost nonstop warfare correct incorrect

limited ability to tax its elites correct incorrect

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. England’s King James I antagonized Parliament by

marrying his son to a Catholic correct incorrect

converting to Catholicism correct incorrect

supporting the Puritans correct incorrect

going to war without their support correct incorrect

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. The Dutch East India Company established commercial relations with local elites but required them

to convert to Christianity correct incorrect

not to trade with any other European power correct incorrect

invest in the company correct incorrect

submit to VOC military authority correct incorrect

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. 16. After relations with the local native people soured, the English settlement at Jamestown was saved by

cultivation of tobacco correct incorrect

African slave labor correct incorrect

Native American laborers correct incorrect

sugar cultivation correct incorrect