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My name is [blank_start](your name)[blank_end].
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(your name)
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A new alliance between monarchs and ________ helped break the bonds of feudal society.
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Nobles
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Clergy
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Peasants
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Business-savvy townspeople
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King Louis XI shared conquered Burgundian lands with ________.
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Hapsburg Emperor Maximilian I
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Isabella of Castille
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Charles the Bold
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Pope Alexander VI
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Who sponsored Genoese adventurer Christopher Columbus?
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Catherine of Aragon
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King Henry VIII
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Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
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Archduke Phillip
Frage 5
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One way in which the northern humanist Desiderius Erasmus gained fame as a religious reformer was by ________.
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Keeping ancient Christian sources hidden from public view
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Promoting that study of the Bible alone would best reform people
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Helping to establish dogmatic religious practice
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Editing the works of the Church Fathers
Frage 6
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Humanism prepared the way for Protestant reforms in which of the following countries?
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France, England, and Denmark
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England, France, and Germany
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Sweden, France, and Germany
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Germany, Switzerland, and Norway
Frage 7
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Which English humanist wrote a famous book called Utopia?
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Erasmus
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Thomas More
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Johann Reuchlin
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Martin Luther
Frage 8
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Columbus thought his first landfall was ___________.
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India
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China
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Indonesia
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Japan
Frage 9
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By the time of the Spanish conquest, the Aztecs ruled almost all of ________.
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Peru
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Present-day California
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South America
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Central Mexico
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________ was by far the most effective and outspoken critic of the Spanish conquerors.
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Michel de Montaigne
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Bartolomé de Las Casas
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Hernán Cortés
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Savonarola
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The ________ of the West Indies and Brazil became the major center for black slavery in the mid-sixteenth century.
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Cotton Plantations
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Sugar Plantations
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Gold mines
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Cocoa-bean groves
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The primary reason monarchs sought out new sources of income in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was due to the ________.
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Growing cost of warfare
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Need to build new public offices
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Continual increase in population
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Growing cost of agricultural equipment
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What was one key factor that broke the bonds of feudal society and made possible the rise of sovereign states?
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The division of basic powers of government
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Centralized royal power
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The new alliance between king and town
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Monarchs' dependency on the nobility
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What caused the secure government of France created by Louis XI to become a defeated nation under his successors?
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Bad foreign policy
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The collapse of the English empire
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The dissolution of Burgundy
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Newly-acquired Burgundian lands
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The Inquisition was a key national agency established in 1479 for the purpose of ________.
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converting Christians to join Jewish and Muslim religions
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increasing the size of the empire of Spain
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driving the Moors from Spain
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monitoring the activity of converted Jews and Muslims in Spain
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During an assembly in Worms in 1495, Emperor Maximilian allowed the members to create ________.
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a committee to overcome perversion of English justice
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a seven-member electoral college
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a Supreme Court of Justice
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an imperial diet known as the Reichstag
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The Brothers of the Common life, an influential lay religious movement, eliminated what requirements from the religious life of men and women?
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Abstinence from food and drink before holy communion
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Sleeping on wooden floors and benches
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Eight hours of prayer and meditation each day
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Vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
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Who was a close friend of Erasmus?
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Johann Reuchlin
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Thomas More
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Martin Luther
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Johann Gutenberg
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Why did German humanists rush to Reuchlin’s defense when Pfefferkorn attacked Reuchlin for being a Jew?
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To promote pro-Jewish sentiment
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To promote academic freedom and good scholarship
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To promote Luther’s ninety-five theses against indulgences
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To support the Dominican order in Cologne
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The Portuguese exploration of the African coast started out as a search for gold and slaves, but by the century’s end it had established ________.
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an organization promoting freedom of religion
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friendly relations with Muslims and pagans
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a popular way to create gold jewelry
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a sea route around Africa to Asia’s spice markets
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