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Social Studies 9 - Chapter 1 Overview – The Early Modern Age
Using what you already know, the notes you took from the chapter and the text if necessary,
answer the following multiple choice questions and then answer the 5 short answer questions in
complete sentence form.
1. Historians of which period were the first to distinguish different eras in history?
a. ancient times
b. the Middle Ages
c. the Reformation
d. the Renaissance
2. Until 1517, all European Christians had been:
a. Protestants
b. Orthodox
c. Roman Catholics
d. Anglicans
3. The period in which challenges to the Catholic Church took place was called the:
a. Protestant Dissent
b. Protestant Reformation
c. Renaissance
d. Age of Reason
4. Religious disputes made political disputes:
a. easier to settle
b. irrelevant
c. worse
d. they had no effect on political disputes
5. As a result of the Reformation, kings saw themselves as:
a. political leaders only
b. political leaders and religious leaders
c. religious leaders only
d. more loyal to the Pope
6. Which of the following changes did not take place during the 16th and 17th centuries?
a. kings reduced the power of the nobility
b. kings began to use professional armies
c. kings began to employ professional civil servants
d. kings relied more heavily on the nobility
7. After 1500, conditions for most Europeans improved because:
a. trade increased
b. serfs became landowners
c. towns grew in strength and economic power
d. all of these
8. By 1700, European countries had developed:
a. democracies
b. overseas empires
c. economies run by nobles
d. industrial economies
9. Nutrition in Europe did not improve after 1600 because of:
a. the three field system
b. more extensive use of serfs
c. new food crops from Asia
d. new food crops from the Americas
10. The new philosophy of the Renaissance was called:
a. humanism
b. scholasticism
c. classicism
d. materialism
11. As a result, people began to concentrate on which of the following in their writings?
a. religion
b. nature
c. human concerns
d. politics
12. Which of the following innovations helped speed up the process of communication?
a. gunpowder
b. trade
c. printing
d. religious reforms
13. The astronomer who first challenged the medieval view of the heavens was:
a. Galileo
b. Brahe
c. Copernicus
d. Vesalius
14. The scientist who developed the scientific method was:
a. Roger Bacon
b. Vesalius
c. Newton
d. Francis Bacon
15. Scientific developments were dependent on:
a. better arguments
b. the use of logic
c. improvements in technology
d. support of the Church
16. Galileo used which of the following in his scientific discoveries?
a. the microscope
b. the telescope
c. dissections
d. improved timepieces
Short Answer Questions:
1. What were the reasons for increased European prosperity after 1500?
2. How did humanism affect European thinking?
3. How did the Scientific Revolution affect the development of learning?
4. How did the Scientific Revolution lead to technological improvements?
5. How did kings gain more power after 1500?