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assignment 1

Fall 2015
Due:  30 September 2015.

Name: ____________________________

Date: _________________________

Using your textbook, answer the following questions.  DO NOT USE THE INTERNET, FRIENDS/CLASSMATES, ETC. TO COMPLETE THIS ASSIGNMENT.   You will receive a 0 on the assignment if you use any of the above aids.  If you turn in your assignment early you will receive two points extra credit.

 

1.      The House of____________________ was ruling family of Brandenburg/Prussia since 1417.

2.      The ____________________were Calvinists who wanted to purify the Anglican church.

3.      From 1649 to 1660, England was in fact a military despotism but officially was called a Puritan ____________________ led by Oliver Cromwell.

4.      Politically, the________________________________________replaced James II with William and Mary.

5.      The _______________________ ______________________ was a document to provide for the legal basis for a single line of inheritance within the Habsburg dynasty through Charles VI’s daughter, Maria Theresa.

6.      The________________________________________refers to social, economic, and political relationships before 1789.

7.      The concept of“________________________________________”maintained that the household was the fundamental unit of production and consumption.

8.      The________________________________________resulted in larger farms and social turmoil.

9.      The consolidation or common lands in England by the British landlords to increase production and commercial profits was known as ____________________ .

10.  The Ottoman Empire originally centered on the modern-day country of____________________ .

11.  ____________________was the true founder of the Ottoman Empire.

12.  Islamic religious law is known as ____________________.

13.  The ____________________ system required each province of the Ottoman Empire to furnish a levy of Christian boys who were raised as Muslims and became soldiers in the Ottoman army.

14.  After 1774, the protector of Orthodox Christians in the Islamic empires was____________________ .

15.  In the Safavid Empire, Shah Isma’il enforced ___________________ conformity.

16.  The____________________school of theological-philosophical thought merged Persian Islamic thought with Islamic traditions of Aristotelianism and Platonism.

17.  ____________________can be described as a religious eclectic who showed not only tolerance but also unusual interest in different religious traditions.

18.  The Mughal dynasty sought to end the political fragmentation of ____________________.

19.  The  ____________________  ______________________  was revolutionary in the sense that it set the standard for evaluating knowledge in the Western world.

20.  Copernicus’ _____  _____  ____________________  _____  _____  ____________________  ____________________ (1543) challenged the prevailing Ptolemaic model of the universe.

21.  Using Brahe’s tables  ____________________  ____________________ , a German astronomer, proved a helio-centric solar system but abandoned the Copernican concept of circular orbits.

22.  Newton’s great work was called  ____________________  ____________________  .

23.  ____________________  ____________________  believed that human beings were blank slates (i.e., having no inborn ideas). 

24.  18th century writers and critics, known as ____________________ , forged the new attitudes favorable to change and sought to apply reason and common sense to the institutions and societies of their day.

25.  ____________________  regarded God as like a divine watchmaker, setting nature to work.

26.  In Candide, _________ attacked war, religious persecution, and what he regarded as unwarranted optimism about the human condition.

27.  One of the greatest monuments of the Enlightenment was the ____________________, a project lead by Denis Diderot.

28.  ____________________  in his writings, advocated the division of power and thought that Great Britain’s government provided the an excellent example

29.  Adam Smith is associated with  ____________________-____________________  economic thought.

30.  ____________________  ____________________  is a term used to describe the policies of rulers who strengthened central administration to attempt enlightened reforms. 


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