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ASSIGNMENT  1:

ASSIGNMENT 1
Spring 2017

Name: ____________________________

Date: _________________________

SECTION I:  Using your textbook, answer the following questions.  DO NOT USE THE INTERNET, FRIENDS, ETC. TO COMPLETE THIS ASSIGNMENT.   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. 

31.  After the battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill, the ___________________  ____________________  ____________________  undertook the governing of the North American colonies.

32.  In France, the First Estate represented the ____________________ ; the Second Estate represented the ____________________ ; and the Third Estate represented ____________________ .

33.  On 27 August 1789, the National Assembly of France issued the  ____________________  __________  __________  ____________________  __________  __________  __________  ____________________ which drew from the political ideas and language of the Enlightenment.

34.  In 1790 the National Assembly issued the __________  __________  _____  _____  __________ that transformed the Roman Catholic Church in France into a branch of the state.

35.  From September 1793 to July 1794, the __________  _____  ___________________ was a period when extensive executions and violent was used to defend the Revolution and suppress internal enemies.

36.  Napoleon’s “____________________ ____________________” aimed at crippling the ability of the British to wage war.

37.  The  ___________________  _____  ____________________ agreed that no single state should be allowed to dominate Europe.

38.  ____________________  _____________________  began the revolt that led to Haitian independence in 1804.

39.  The first region in South America to assert its independence from Spain was __________  _____  _____  __________  .

40.  The liberator of northern South America and promoter of republicanism there was  ___________________  ____________________ .

SECTION II:  Choose TWO of the following questions and write a complete essay for each.  (10 points possible for each essay—20 points total.)  The essays must be type-written, double-spaced, one-inch margins.

What was the Glorious Revolution and how did it alter the English political system?

What were the most important elements that united all Islamic states? Why was there a lack of unity between these states from 1500 to 1800? How and why were the European powers able to promote division among these various states?

In what ways were the revolutions of the Trans-Atlantic world between 1775 and 1826 all interconnected?  What do these interconnections reveal about the Atlantic world during this era?


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