Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 16

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions:
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• A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
• B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
• C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
• D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
• E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
• F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
• G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
• H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
• I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
• J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
• K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
• L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
• M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
• N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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Definitions:

Probate Court

A specialized court that deals with matters pertaining to wills, estates, conservatorships, and guardianships.

Decedent's Estate

All the assets and liabilities left behind by a person who has passed away.

Administrator

An individual appointed by a court to manage and settle the estate of a deceased person who has left no will.

Died Without A Will

A situation in which a person passes away without leaving a legal document specifying how their assets should be distributed.