The emphasis on reading the Bible for oneself stimulated education and literacy for women.
How did the Protestant Reformation affect women?
The printing press
What facilitated the spread of the Protestant Reformation in Europe?
Education and civic responsibility
What did the New England Puritans in North America emphasize?
Spanish Catholic missionaries in the Philippines
Which group had the greatest success in converting people outside of Europe to Christianity?
Catholics were more intent on converting native peoples.
Which of the following was generally more true of Catholics than Protestants in European colonies?
To return to the absolute monotheism of authentic Islam
Which of the following was a goal of the Wahhabi movement?
Equality of men and women
Which of the following is a principle or practice upheld in Sikhism?
The relative independence of European universities
What condition in Europe that was absent in China and the Islamic world contributed to the Scientific Revolution?
Suppression
Which of the following describes European reaction to the syncretic religions of African slave communities in the New World?
argued that individuals could find their own path to virtue and salvation.
Both Wang Yangmin in his view of Confucianism and Martin Luther in his view of Christianity
The bhakti movement
Which of the following represents a form of Hinduism that shared features with mystical Sufi forms of Islam?
They emphasized conflict and struggle as the motors of progress.
In what way did nineteenth-century developments in the sciences depart from Enlightenment principles?
They had to defend themselves against both Mughal and Hindu hostility.
Why did Sikhism evolve from a peaceful religion into a militant community?
The Enlightenment applied the idea of natural laws to human affairs rather than the physical
universe.
How was the Enlightenment related to the Scientific Revolution?
Selective adoption of European scientific learning
Which of the following describes the reception of modern European science in China, Japan, and the Ottoman Empire during the early modern era?
The idea that an individual could find salvation by faith alone
What made Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses revolutionary?
It granted the ruler of each European state the authority to control religious affairs within his own domain.
What was the significance of the Peace of Westphalia?
The absence of a literate world religion
What factor made some parts of the world more receptive to Christianity than others?
The Jesuits' knowledge in mathematics, astronomy, technology, geography, and mapmaking was useful to the Chinese.
Why did the Chinese imperial court initially welcome the Jesuit missionaries?
The pope's claim of authority over Chinese Christians
Which of the following marked a major turning point in the relationship between China and Christian missionaries?
Both reinterpreted Christian practices within the framework of local customs.
What similar feature did Andean Christianity and Mexican Christianity share?
work of Muslim holy men, scholars, and traders.
During the centuries between 1450 and 1750, the spread of Islam was usually the
Verification, precision, accuracy, and rigorous analysis in all fields of inquiry
What did the kaozheng movement in China emphasize?
mathematical reasoning.
Europeans who participated in the Scientific Revolution placed value on knowledge that was based on
saw no conflict between science and religion.
The early scientists in the Scientific Revolution
The belief in progress and reason
Which of the following did all Enlightenment thinkers share?
Romanticism
Which of the following was a reaction to the reliance on human reason during the eighteenth century in Europe?
Thoughtful, rational, and independent
Which of the following reflects the Enlightenment view of the innate qualities of the individual?