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According to your textbook, what practice did the philosophes believe was mankind’s greatest offense against reason:

When the Dutch began to rebel against the Spanish King Philip II, _______________________________ was a military general who Philip II sent to reestablish stability. After his arrival, though, violence steadily increased until a full-scale revolution broke out: 

TRUE or FALSE: Major reasons France lost so much power during the reign of Louis XIV were a series of international wars and huge government expenditures on Versailles Palace: 

The main reason King Philip II of Spain ordered an attack upon his possession called the Netherlands in the mid 1550s was:

The following characteristics represent which person: = the book Dialogue of the Two Chief Systems = punished by the Roman Catholic Church  = the pamphlet Starry Messenger = building a telescope that could view the planets and other heavenly bodies

According to your lectures, the country of ____________________ started the Age of Discovery by exploring and colonizing the African coastline. When one of this country’s explorers reached Asia/Orient by an all sea route, the _________________________monopoly on Asian goods was destroyed: 

By the 1700s, typical characteristics of a European nation-state included all of the following selections EXCEPT: 

_____________________’s First Law of Planetary Motion (1609) states that______________________________________________:

Jean Baptiste Colbert, an important financial minister on Louis XIV’s court, popularized the financial practice of _______________________ thus helping to make his country the predominant nation-state of Europe, at least for a while:

As the European nation-state evolved, he oversaw a French military revolution that increased the size, uniformity, and general professionalism of the military: