Nobles attempted to preserve their status in several ways, including by making it more difficult to enter the nobility and by __________.
A. claiming officer positions in the army
B. dominating urban trade
C. speculating in finance
D. creating representative institutions
Answer: A
You might also like to view...
The Constitution was framed by __________
A) political and social radicals B) lawyers, farmers, and artisans C) white male elites D) a true cross-section of American society
What caused the Florentines to finally execute Savonarola in 1498?
A. They felt he did not do enough to recover Pisa. B. They felt that Florence was losing power under his rule. C. They tired of his puritanical tyranny. D. They discovered that he had lied to them. E. They realized he had tricked them in a secret alliance with King Charles VIII.
Gothic architecture made much greater use of stained glass than Romanesque style
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Long-term consequences of the 1848 revolutions include all the following EXCEPT
a. the end of the revolutionary alliance between the bourgeoisie and the working class. b. the willingness of Germans nationalists to sacrifice liberalism for national unity. c. the end of liberalism throughout the continent. d. the beginning of "the Great European War of every nation against its neighbors." e. a general acceptance that popular uprisings were ineffective tools for changing society.