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1. Who was author of the book ‘The Prince’?
2. Who believed that diplomacy without weapons is like music without instruments?
3. The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) developed out of the rivalry between Russia and Japan for dominance in Korea and………………..
4. The …………..cities like Venice, Milan and Florence were rich and prosperous due to trade with the East.
5. ………………….gave a clear exposition of the religious beliefs of the Protestants in his Book, ‘The Institutes of Christian Religion’.
6. James II established friendly relation with Louis XIV of………………..
7. ………………….brought about a transition from the religious approach to the humanistic approach to the problems of the world.
8. Metternich had fled to ……………in the midst of mounting opposition.
9. The invention of true paper made of pulped rags is credited to a Chinese named ……………..in the year AD. 105.
10. Sir Isaac Newton was an …………….physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor, and natural philosopher.
11. ‘Bills of Rights’ was in the year………………….
12. When Constantinople was captured by …………….most of the Greek scholars migrated to Italy
13. In 1800 Austria was defeated by …………..which combined the German States into the confederation of Rhine.
14. In 1904, …………………published his monumental work ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ in which he argued that capitalism was the product of Protestantism.
15. In………………….., Jean-Baptiste Colbert was the minister of finance under Louis XIV
16. The …………………historian Henrie Pirenne formulated the theory of the ‘revival of long distance trade’ for the decline of feudalism.
17. ……………….’s main work was ‘The Spirit of the Laws’ (1753).
18. Bismarck resorted to wars to achieve the unification of Germany under Prussia. The first war was with …………in 1864 AD.
19. ………………..was “the Master brain” of the Italian Unification.
20. …………………wrote an important book entitled ‘Two Treatises of Government’.
21. In 1796, when he was 27 years of age, ……………married Josephine, a rich widow of a nobleman.
22. The first European to describe gunpowder was the ………………Friar Roger Bacon.
23. The British conquest of Canada after the Seven Year War reduced the …………………danger and hence the colonies turned against England.
24. The teachers and students of the ……………University formed the secret Committee called “BRUSCHEN SHAFI” to preach nationalism.
25. ……………….. is the name given to the great religious revolt of the 16th century, which permanently divided the Christendom into great sects.

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