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Isaac Newton’s universal law of gravitation

Use the passage to answer the question: As the leaders of the Holy Roman Empire, the Hapsburgs of Austria tried to unify the countries under their rule by converting their populations to Catholicism. In Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic), Catholics and Protestants had once existed in peace. However, when a Hapsburg monarch closed the Protestant churches there, civil war broke out. This conflict ignited the Thirty Years’ War, which raged from 1618-1648. According to this passage, where had Catholics and Protestants once lived in peace?

Use the below passage to answer the question. Those who believe that they can be certain of their salvation because they have indulgence letters will be eternally damned, together with their teachers. Men must especially be on their guard against those who say that the popes pardons are that inestimable gift of God by which man is reconciled to him.Ninety-five Theses, Martin Luther, 1517 According to the passage, who will be eternally damned?

What event occurred in 1534?

Montesquieu’s most lasting contribution to political thought was his

Use the reading passage to answer the question:  “As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.”Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776 Adam Smith believed in laissez-faire, by which he meant that

What event occurred in 1533?

Vasco da Gamas discovery of a route to India by sea proved to be

James I of England believed in the divine right of kings, which is

Calvin agreed with Luther on most important doctrines except