True or False Questions

Please write true or false on the test sheet.

• Queen Isabella supported Martin Luther and the Protestant reformers.
• Henry VIII was born in Switzerland on April 10, 1529.
• The final doctrinal decrees of the Institutes of the Christian Religion reaffirmed traditional Catholic teachings in opposition to Protestant beliefs.
• In 1534, Parliament moved to finalize the Church of England’s break with Rome.
• Henry VIII was succeeded by his nephew, Charles II.
• The Institutes of the Christian Religion is the most famous work of Sir Thomas More.
• Protestantism removed the women from her traditional role as controller of religion in the home.
• The politiques of France believed that no religious truth was worth the ravages of civil war.
• Martin Luther founded the Jesuits in 1602.
• The religious policy of Elizabeth I was based on moderation and compromise.
• Huguenots, the Spanish Calvinists, came from the poorest classes of society.
• The greatest advocate of militant Catholicism in the second half of the sixteenth century was King Phillip of Spain.
• Columbus made a total of two voyages to the western hemisphere.
• The Irish dominated the trans-Atlantic slave trade between the early sixteenth and nineteenth century.
• The Philippines became a major English base in the trade across the Pacific.
• The first Europeans to arrive in India were the Spanish.
• Russia during the reign of James I has been traditionally been regarded as the best example of absolute monarchy in the eighteenth century.
• Charles V spent untold sums of money on the construction of a new royal residence at Versailles.
• Gerardus Mercator has been given credit for starting the first Russian navy.
• One group of Russians benefited greatly from Peter the Great’s cultural reforms – women.
• Oliver Cromwell tried to return England to Catholicism.
• The English Toleration Act of 1689 granted Puritan dissenters the right of free public worship.
• Leviathan is considered to be the greatest of Copernicus’s writings.
• The supremacy of Dutch commerce in the seventeenth century was paralleled by a brilliant flowering of Dutch painting.
• William Harvey’s theory of the circulation of the blood laid the foundation for modern physiology.
• Peter the Great’s most important contribution to political thought was the belief in the importance of checks and balances created by means of separation of powers.
• During the seventeenth century, Spanish influence expanded as Dutch influence declined. .
• In France, the Third Estate consisted of the aristocracy and numbered about 900,000 people.
• The aristocracy made up the largest segment of the French Third Estate.
• The government of Louis XVI called for a meeting of the Estates-General, the French parliamentary body that had not met since 1614.
• By 1791, the National Assembly had completed a new constitution that established a limited constitutional monarchy.
• In December, 1796, Napoleon lead the invasion of Russia.
• During the Napoleonic era, British overseas exports were cut in half.