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Modern Europe Final
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Undergraduate 1
05/16/2011

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Which best describles the british north american colonies  during the time of the american revolution
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The colonies had a tradition of self-government that contributed to colonists' protests against brittish rule.
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In 1789, The french national assemblu
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drafted the french declaration of the rights of man and citizen
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Napoleon Bonaparte sought to extend
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social equality
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In a vindication of the rights of women, Mary Wollstonecraft
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argued that girls/women should recieve an education comparable to the education of boys/men
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In the interesting narrative of the life of olauduah equiano written by himself,
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All the above
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Why did the industrial revolution being in Britain?
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Brittish land owners enclosed their fields and applied technological innovations to agricultural production, thus freeing up labor from the country side
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During the industrial revolutuon in Britain
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all of the above
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in Characterisics of the women of england, sarah stickney ellis argues that middle-class women should
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devote themselves to their families
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In draft of a comminist confession of faith, Friedrich engles claimed that the proletariat
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owned and controlled the means of production+

came into being as a result of the introduction of machines

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Which soical thinker promoted "phalansteries"
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Charles Fourier
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The two most important reasons cortez was able to conquer the Aztecs were
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Disease and Indian allies
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The founder of the soicety of Jesus (jesuits) was Ignatius Loyola
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According to John Calvin, in articles concerning predestination, how were the elect and probate "chosen"
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God decided, even before he created man, who was destined to heaven and who was destined to hell
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According to Martin Luther, in freedom of a christian, which of the following is necessary for "christian life, righteousness, and freedom?
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the word of god
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Benjamin J. Kaplan, in European Faiths and States," argues that the emergence of "faith-based communites" and "confessional christianity"
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contributed to religous intoerance.
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In "Why Europe" Jack goldstone explains thatfter 1650 European thinkers proposed two major directions to see new systems of knowledge. Which of the following statements explains empirism?
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The development of scientific knowledge by conductin expierments
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What do Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, in "women and science," mean by their claim that for women " there was no scientific revolution"?
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When men studied femail anatomy thwy ceased to be scientific
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Which of the following men advocated the "teo-seed" model of conception, which suggested that the woman, as well as the man, needed to achieve climax in order to concieve
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Francis Bacon
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According to Thomas Laqueur in making sex, male anatomists and physiologists during the scientific revolution (1600s and 1700s)
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continued to perpetuatea one-sex model of the body that was based on biological sameness rather than biological difference
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Why according to Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H quataert,in "women in the early modern era: Religous uphealval , political centralization, and colonial conquest," did witchcraft trails in europe begin to mulitpy in the 1560s and rise "to panic proportions by the end of the century"?
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Government and clerical elites were trying to reinforce their political authority during this period
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The two most important reasons cortez was able to conqeu the Aztecs were

 

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Disease and Indian Allies
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Which of the followinw was a Huron response to the disease epidempics of the 1630s?
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all the above
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Who proposed that faith alone was essential to salvation and launched the protestant reformation?
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Martin Luther
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According to journalist Stephen O' She, in Back to the front" what factors led to the outbreak of WW1?
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All the above
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The Zhenotdel was the name of
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The women's department in the U.S.S.R.
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The model for the soviet industrialization involved
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all the above
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Which factor lead to hilters rise of power after WW1?
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Hyper-inflation led to a loss of purchasing power
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Which reasons have scholars given to explain the cold war?
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all the above
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Fransis Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture was a leader of the
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Haitain revolution
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In 1789, the french national assembly
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ended legal priveledges of the first and second estates
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Which of the following was a successful businessmand who provided his workers with better working conditions and higher wages than his capitalist rivals during the industrial revolution?
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Robert Owen
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Anti-Black steretopes were disseminated in European culture after 1870 through
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all the above
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The congress of vienna
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all the above
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Chinua Achebe critized conrads Heart of darkness for
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perpetuating the dehumanization of Africa and Africans
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