Question 1
Which statement best describes European trade and expansion by the end of the seventeenth century?
a. International trade was much greater than intra-European trade.
b. Wealth was being transferred back to the New World from Europe in the form of raw materials.
c. Local, regional, and intra-European trade was considerably greater than international trade.
d. Slavery was in decline in both Africa and the New World.
e. European imperialism had come to an end.
Question 2
Michel de Montaigne changed the character of humanism by
a. adding the principle, the ends justify the means in the real world.
b. inventing Christian humanism.
c. replacing optimism and civic virtue with skepticism and introspection.
d. tying it more closely to empirical research and the new science.
e. reintroducing the traditional Christian view of man as fundamentally evil.