Western Civ II JCJC Midterm Questions And Answers Already Graded A+
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Western Civ II JCJC
Who was the British naval officer that claimed the eastern coast of Australia for Great
Britain? - ️️Captain James Cook
________ was an English noblewoman who wrote scientific and philosophical treatises.
- ️️Margaret Cavendish
According to the divine right theory, rulers received their...
Western Civ II JCJC Midterm
Who was the British naval officer that claimed the eastern coast of Australia for Great
Britain? - ✔️✔️Captain James Cook
________ was an English noblewoman who wrote scientific and philosophical treatises.
- ✔️✔️Margaret Cavendish
According to the divine right theory, rulers received their powers from ________. -
✔️✔️God
Royal absolutism first emerged in what two countries? - ✔️✔️France & Spain
What was the name of the French official who played the most important role in
centralizing the authority of the French monarch? - ✔️✔️Richelieu
________ succeeded Cardinal Richelieu as minister to the French King. - ✔️✔️Mazarin
________ ruled France in the second half of the 1600s. - ✔️✔️Louis XIV
The event that most changed the nature of the Holy Roman Empire was the ________.
- ✔️✔️Thirty Years War
Frederick William I was ruler of ________. - ✔️✔️Prussia
The Hasburgs ruled ________. - ✔️✔️Austria
Russia began to westernize during the reign of ________. - ✔️✔️Peter the Great
What dynasty inaugurated under James I? - ✔️✔️The Personal Rule
The Long Parliament attacked the power of the ________. - ✔️✔️King
Who wrote Two Treatises of Government in 1690? - ✔️✔️John Locke
________ 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
Who founded the Quakers? - ✔️✔️George Fox
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
In the period form 1500 to 1900, most African slaves were shipped to ________. -
✔️✔️Brazil and Caribbean
The ________ required the purchase of stamps for any printed item. - ✔️✔️British
Stamp Act
What was the name of the treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War in 1783? -
✔️✔️Treaty of Paris
Which political theorist inspired the Declaration of Independence? - ✔️✔️Locke
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