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| 210126234 | Charles II | For the last half of the 1600s, the "sick man of Europe" was Spain. This is because the Spanish monarch on the throne had no children, and the question of the day was what would become of the Spanish Empire at the death of the last Spanish Hapsburg on the throne. Who was this last Spanish Hapsburg we are discussing? | 0 | |
| 210126235 | a political situation in which one state might subordinate all others to its will | universal monarchy | 1 | |
| 210126236 | to preserve the sovereignty and independence of the nation-states of Europe against potential aggressors | The purpose of the balance of power politics was to preserve the "liberties of Europe." What does this mean? | 2 | |
| 210126237 | the Dutch, William III of Orange | What nation was the main engineer of the balance of power against the universal monarchy being developed by Louis XIV of France? | 3 | |
| 210126238 | Bank of Amsterdam | What Dutch bank became an international banking center? | 4 | |
| 210126239 | England and Sweden | Louis XIV's first aggressive move against Spanish Hapsburg lands was his overrunning Spanish Netherlands and Franche-Comte, known as the War of Devolution. This action was met by the Dutch resistance with the Dutch forming a Triple Alliance. With what two nations did the Dutch form an alliance and force Louis XIV to withdraw from his invasion of Spanish Netherlands? | 5 | |
| 210126240 | Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle 1668 | What treaty ended the War of Devolution? | 6 | |
| 210126241 | William III | The text takes you through the brief basics of two wars fought between the Dutch and the French. The first of these, the War of Devolution, was a war when there was no stadholder in the Netherlands. Who was the stadholder for the second war, the Dutch War which ended with the treaty of Nimwegen? | 7 | |
| 210126242 | Denmark, Brandenburg, Austrian Hapsburgs, Spanish Hapsburgs | What nations did William III form an alliance with in the Dutch War to oppose Louis XIV's second invasion into the Spanish Netherlands and three of the 7 Dutch republics? | 8 | |
| 210161689 | Roundheads | What is the nickname of the Parliament's forces? | 9 | |
| 210161690 | Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army | What is the Ironsides? | 10 | |
| 210161691 | republic/commonwealth | After the execution of Charles I, what kind of government did England and the whole British Isles have? | 11 | |
| 210161692 | Instrument of Government | In 1653 Cromwell abolished the Rump and ruled alone as the Lord Protector of England. What was the name of constitution he devised that he would rule under as Lord Protector? | 12 | |
| 210161693 | ownership of land | The 1710 Act passed by Parliament required members of House of Commons to have independent private incomes instead of being paid as members of the Parliament. From what source was this income to come? | 13 | |
| 210161694 | Bishop Bossuet, Politics Drawn From Holy Scripture | What French religious person created the French thought of absolutism and absolute monarchy and what was the work he wrote that presented this theory? | 14 | |
| 210166248 | give a reason to have the nobles at Versailles where he can keep an eye on them; Keep your friends close and your enemies closer | What was Louis' ultimate purpose for having so many ceremonial duties in his daily routine of getting up and dressed, eating, and going to bed at night? | 15 | |
| 210166249 | nobility/aristocracy | What social group or class was Louis XIV not able to tax? | 16 | |
| 210166250 | revoked Edict of Nantes | Considering religious issues, Louis XIV resented the presence of heretics in his kingdom, considering religious unity necessary to the strength and dignity of his rule. What act did Louis cancel to achieve his goal of religious unity? | 17 | |
| 210166251 | Louis & Leopold were both married to sisters of Charles II | How were Louis XIV of France and Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I related to the Spanish King Charles II? | 18 | |
| 210166252 | Sardinia and Prussia | Savoy and Brandenburg rise to prominence in European history because of being on the winning side in the War of the Spanish Succession. But these two names will change and be known by something else. What does Savoy become and what does Brandenburg become? | 19 | |
| 210166253 | Sardinia and Prussia | Because of the War of the Spanish Succession and its Peace of Utrecht treaty which ended the war, the small nations of Savoy and Brandenburg came to the forefront of international relations, their rulers both being given the title of "king" in their homelands. But these two changed their nation names after the war, so what do you call them post-Utrecht? | 20 | |
| 210166254 | Britain and France | After the Peace of Utrecht, which two European nations were seen as the most vigorous powers of Europe? | 21 | |
| 210170289 | Guelph family from Hanover went to the British throne | The Guelph family, ruling in Hanover, found that it was no longer necessary to compete with the Hapsburgs to have power. So what happened? | 22 | |
| 210170290 | Poland | The Duchy of Prussia was part of what country/empire/republic? | 23 | |
| 210170291 | Poland | Jews were a population found in significant numbers in which country/empire/republic? | 24 | |
| 210170292 | Latin | The official and political language of Poland was what language? | 25 | |
| 210170293 | Prince Eugene of Savoy | What prince is considered as the founder of the modern Austrian state? | 26 | |
| 210179924 | everyone's army was small and everyone's weapons were simple, large nation or small nation | Your text says that there was one main fact which explained why small states were able to play an influential part of European affairs seeming out of proportion to their size. What was this main fact? | 27 | |
| 210179925 | militarism | Give the vocabulary word that fits this definition because it describes how Prussia was: "When the military needs and military values permeate all other spheres of life." | 28 | |
| 210179926 | Drive to the east | According to your text, all Germany east of the Elbe River, including Brandenburg, represented a medieval conquest of the German peoples, this conquest known by the phrase Drang nach Osten . What does this term translate into? | 29 | |
| 210179927 | Hohenzollern | What monarchy house line becomes associated with the Elector of Brandenburg and eventually all of Prussia/Germany? | 30 | |
| 210179928 | the army | What organization or entity of Prussia existed before there was a modern state known as Prussia? | 31 | |
| 210179929 | the Prussian army | What organization or entity was the first "all-Prussian" institution? | 32 | |
| 210179930 | from the king's own property income, proceeds of the crown domains | For the 100 years after Frederick William the Great Elector, how did the government of Prussia get money to run the government of Brandenburg-Prussia? | 33 | |
| 210179931 | because the Junkers were accustomed to commanding their own peasants | Why did the Prussian rulers believe that the Junkers made better army officers? | 34 | |
| 210179932 | legislation forbade the sale of noble lands to those not in the noble class | Legislation was passed in Prussia to preserve the officer class and its quality of Junker leadership. What did the law require or do to enable the officer class to be preserved and not be diluted? | 35 | |
| 210179933 | Ivan III | Muscovy had been under the control and dominion of the Mongol Golden Horde until this Moscow Prince was able to throw off the Mongol overlordship and cease payment of tribute. Which Ivan did this? | 36 | |
| 210189742 | Ivan IV 'the Terrible' | Which Ivan was the first Grand Duke of Muscovy to use the title of Tsar? | 37 | |
| 210189743 | Michael | After the death of the above mentioned Tsar, the Time of Troubles came. The assumption of the throne by the Romanov line ended the Time of Troubles. Who was the first Romanov Tsar? | 38 | |
| 210189744 | lords can sell the peasants without the land, moving the serfs like chattel slavery in the US | By the passage of a 1675 law, Russian serfdom became distinctly different than the serfdom of Poland, Austria, Prussia, Bohemia, and other Eastern European lands that had serfdom. What did this 1675 law do? | 39 | |
| 210189745 | Sweden | What country won the Battle of Narva? | 40 | |
| 210189746 | Each Tsar should name his own successor, doesn't have to be based on hereditary | Dissatisfied at the thought of his son Alexi rising to the throne, Peter the Great made a decision on how the line of succession to the throne should be done. How did Peter say it should be done? | 41 | |
| 210189747 | Top 8 levels | Your text tells you that Peter westernized the administration of the state government bureaucracy with what the text calls the "state service" system, what most other sources call the Table of Ranks. Land owning and serf-owning aristocrats had to serve in the Russian army or in the Russian government's civil administration. There were 14 levels, called Ranks, in this new system. The lowest born or the most noble born can be placed at any of the 14 Ranks. Which levels are now considered the gentry? | 42 | |
| 210189748 | Peter the Great had his own son Alexi executed/put to death | How did Alexi die? | 43 | |
| 210189749 | Austria | What country participated in the 1st & 3rd Partitions of Poland but not the 2nd Partition? | 44 | |
| 210189750 | France | The division of the above mentioned nation did help keep the balance of power in Eastern Europe. But this event profoundly changed the balance of power of Europe as a whole. One Western European nation in particular suffered a blow. What Western European nation is this? | 45 | |
| 210211519 | weak central authority, lacked efficient systems of administration/government, all made up of diverse populations, whole area politically soft, all being put out of date by newer state types, no common language among the populations | The three aging empires of Eastern Europe have many characteristics in common. List any two. | 46 | |
| 210211520 | Voltaire = "It was neither Holy, Roman, nor an empire" Pufendorf = "it was somewhat of an abortion and a monstrosity" | Both Voltaire and Pufendorf had sayings appropriate for the Holy Roman Empire. Give one of these sayings. | 47 | |
| 210211521 | breakup of commercial connections and wartime losses of savings and capital hard to overcome, burgher class lost much of its vitality, no overseas colonies founded, lacking strong govt backing for it, no stock exchange in Germany, laws, tariffs, tolls, coinage too variegated, calendar varied from place to place | The Holy Roman Empire had difficulty revitalizing itself after the 30 Years War, and was in no shape to protect itself in the War of the Spanish Succession. List any two of the reasons for this post-war revival difficulty. | 48 | |
| 210211522 | agreements HREmperor has to agree to concerning the rights and freedoms of the various German states, ie their Germanic liberties, before they would vote for a man to be HREmperor | What are capitulations and how do they figure into the election for Holy Roman Emperor? | 49 | |
| 210211523 | sitting in separate chambers by religion, Catholic or Protestant, then voting, but both sides have to agree for the thing voted on to be done, and each side had a veto | In the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire, they had the "right of sitting apart" when it came to religious matters. What does that mean? | 50 | |
| 210211524 | its king was elected; because the political classes took pride in their constitutional liberties | Why was Poland known as a republic in this time? | 51 | |
| 210211525 | France, Sweden, Berlin/Prussia, Russia | Your text says that the Poles were too factious to allow one of their own to become king, and so only twice was the King of Poland actually a Pole. So name one of the nations which had the most influence on the election to king in Poland. | 52 | |
| 210211526 | Free veto, can be used by any member of the diet to oppose a motion, and using it "explodes the diet" and is broken up | What is the liberum veto and how is it used in the Polish Diet? | 53 | |
| 210211527 | Janissaries were children taken from European Christian homes and raised Muslim; because they had no families, had no ties to anything outside the military organization to which they belonged; don't mind dying | What was the background of the janissaries fighting force in the Ottoman Empire AND why did the Turks think that they made good soldiers? | 54 | |
| 210211528 | Empire taxes all non-Muslims, so needs them to stay Christian so as to make money from them. exempted from Ottoman laws; liable to trial in front of French judges; in a dispute with a Turk, appear in special courts where their word is equally weighted with the Muslim | In the Ottoman Empire, Christians were not proselytized and encouraged to become Muslim. Also, French foreigners who found themselves in legal difficulties had extra-territorial rights. For first one, in one sentence explain why. For the second one, in one sentence, explain what legal rights French citizens had that made up these extra-territorial rights. | 55 | |
| 210211529 | Kingdom of Bohemia and Kingdom of Hungary | The dominions of Austria are grouped in three major areas which are Austria and two kingdoms. Name one of the two kingdoms, that with the hereditary provinces of Austria, make up the entire Austrian Empire. | 56 | |
| 210236713 | 1640 Frederick William the Great Elector. 1688 Frederick III/Frederick I. 1713 Fredrick William I. 1740 Frederick II "the Great" | List of German Brandenburg/Prussian Rulers: | 57 | |
| 210236714 | Because in 1701, the HREmperor will allow the brandenburg elector to become known as "king in Prussia." | Why did the Brandenburg Elector Frederick II change his name and number? | 58 | |
| 210258045 | push the Fr border east by taking Spanish Netherlands & Franche-Comte/Free County of Burgandy | Louis XIV had two basic lines of expansionism he planned to pursue for France. One was to push eastward, the other involved looking westward. Both of these involved Spain. What was the eastward line of expansionism? | 59 | |
| 210258046 | by marrying a sister of Charles II, obtaining the entire Spanish inheritance for himself upon the death of Charles II | Louis XIV had two basic lines of expansionism he planned to pursue for France. One was to push eastward, the other involved looking westward. Both of these involved Spain. What was the westward line of expansionism? | 60 | |
| 210258047 | 1. condition of equilibrium, power distributed evenly among all nations 2. equilibrium has been disturbed, so the balance is a counterweight of a coalition of many against one nation 3. holding balance of power, so that a nation's influence is necessary in a coalition and more important to the coalition than the coalition is to that nation, that nation "holds" the balance of power 4. a nation that doesn't belong to a coalition but tries to keep all other states in a condition of equilibrium so that it's entrance on one side or the other would be decisive, that nation "holds" the balance although technically it is not participating at all in the balance coalition | The text gives the concept of "balance of power" four basic definitions. What are the definitions? | 61 | |
| 210258048 | "Law of War and Peace," a pioneering treatise on international law | How did Hugo Grotius contribute to mid-1600s European society? | 62 | |
| 210258049 | philosophy, examining the fundamentals of reality, human conduct, and of church and state | How did Baruch Spinoza contribute to mid-1600s European society? | 63 | |
| 210258050 | microscope scientists founders of modern biological science | How did Anton Leeuwenhoek contribute to mid-1600s society? | 64 | |
| 210258051 | physics & mathematics, improved telescope, clocks with pendulums, discovered Saturn's rings, wave theory of light | How did Christian Huyghens contribue to mid-1600s society? | 65 | |
| 210258052 | "World Bewitched," work dealt death blow to superstition of witchcraft | How did Balthasar Bekker contribute to mid-1600s society? | 66 | |
| 210258053 | painter, portraits of the common people | How did Frans Hals contribute to mid-1600s society? | 67 | |
| 210258054 | painter, portraits of the burgher class | How did Jan Vermeer contribute to mid-1600s society? | 68 | |
| 210258055 | painter of the people of power and economics of the Dutch , Masters of the Cloth Hall | How did Rembrant contribute to mid-1600s society? | 69 | |
| 210258056 | the Dutch used their 10,000 ships to carry goods for the various countries, the Dutch were the Mayflower van lines of their day | What is meant when your text states that the Dutch were the carriers between Spain, France, England, and the Baltic? | 70 | |
| 210258057 | House of Orange/Prince of Orange; when there was military threat of invasion | Dutch politics in the 7 provinces revolved around the stadholder and the local burghers. In some situations the stadholder seemed to be in control, in other circumstances, the local burghers were in power. What Dutch noble house fulfilled the stadholder's position AND under circumstances did the stadholder seem to be in control? | 71 | |
| 210258058 | 1.Calvinists = Puritans& Parliament 2.moderate Protestantism = Anglicanism & King | The English Civil War was a war of religion fought between two different factions of Protestants and the government. Which faction is Calvinism & tied to the Parliament and which faction is moderate Protestantism tied to the King? | 72 | |
| 210258059 | James I of England, James VI of Scotland; basic idea is divine right of kings, royal absolutism, a monarchy free from control by Parliament, churchmen, or laws/customs of the past | The "True Law of Free Monarchy" was written by what English king and what is the basic idea of this work? | 73 | |
| 210258060 | insisted that the chief royal advisors be impeached and put to death; abolished the High Commission; abolished the Star Chamber; the "root and branch" radical Calvinists drove through Parliament a bill abolishing bishops, revolutionizing Anglican Church; adopted the Solemn League and Covenant religion of Scotland, England, Ireland be uniform and Presbyterianism | This deadlock inspired the revolution by Scotland and then by the Long Parliament against Charles I. The Long Parliament was revolutionary at the outset against the King, using the current Scottish rebellion to press for their own demands against Charles. List any two actions the Long Parliament took against Charles and his advisors? | 74 | |
| 211345595 | So the Rump of Parliament that agreed with Cromwell would vote to execute the Charles I | What was the ultimate purpose for Cromwell to have Colonel Pride perform Pride's Purge? | 75 | |
| 211345596 | each parish responsible for its own poor; poor people now stuck in their parish and can't leave | The Act of Settlement of 1662 had an impact on poor people. What did this act do? | 76 | |
| 211345597 | vindicated principles of parliamentary govt, vindicated the principle of 'the rule of law' over arbitrariness, vindicated principle of the right of rebellion against tyranny | According to your text, the Glorious Revolution was a vindication of certain ideas. List two of these ideas. | 77 | |
| 211345598 | courts of law, each one being a supreme court for its region, which upheld certain "fundamental rights" which they said the king could not overstep and would not enforce royal edicts which they declared unconstitutional | In France, what functions do parlements serve? | 78 | |
| 211345599 | Peace of Pyrenees ended the last fighting going on as part of the 30 Years War, the fighting of France vs. Spain that had continued 10 years after the Peace of Westphalia officially ended the 30 Years War. | What nations fighting was settled by the Peace of the Pyrenees of 1659? | 79 | |
| 211345600 | 1st time religion counted little in the cause of the war's starting, 1st time commerce & sea power were the principle stakes, 1st time English money liberally used on continental politics, 1st time a war had what could be considered modern armies, 1st time a war could be considered a 'world war' because it involved overseas world of their colonies too | The War of Spanish Succession had a lot of firsts. Give two of them. | 80 | |
| 211345601 | John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough for the British, Prince Eugene of Savoy fought for Austria | The War of the Spanish Succession became another balance of power war of almost everyone versus France. Everyone had their own reasons for joining in the war, and on which side they came in. Two really successful military leaders came to the forefront in this war, Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy. Name one of two nations these military leaders fought for. | 81 | |
| 211345602 | lost = France, Dutch; gained = Savoy, Brandenburg, and both leaders were recognized as kings by Utrecht | Because of the War of the Spanish Succession, 2 countries that had been powerful seemed to lose power and influence while 2 minor countries began to grow in power and prestige. Give one of the 2 nations that lost power AND one of the 2 nations that gained power. | 82 | |
| 211345603 | one shipload of British goods per year to be brought to Porto Bello Panama; slaves was the cargo | The British found that its spoils of war from the War of the Spanish Succession were very lucrative, especially the asiento. In a brief sentence, explain the basics of the asiento privilege and name the specific cargo the British used this privilege for? | 83 | |
| 211364707 | King Gustavus Adolphus, Queen Christina, King Charles XII | The Swedish Empire owed its existence to the brilliance of three extraordinary rulers. Name two of the three | 84 | |
| 211364708 | to connect and unify these three disconnected pieces into one fully connected mass | According to your text, in the 17th century, Prussia was basically in three parts: 1) the main mass of Brandenburg/Pomerania/Elbe bishopric, 2) detached eastern mass of ducal Prussia, lying totally within Polish lands and outside the actual border of the Holy Roman Empire and 3) a small, detached western mass on or near the Rhine River on the western boundary of the Holy Roman Empire that bordered the Dutch. Since these three holdings of the Brandenburg Hohenzollern line were disconnected, what was the overall long-range policy of the Hohenzollern line? | 85 | |
| 211364709 | army not for use in battle, but rather in keeping it off the field as an army in being and to gain the foreign policy desires by diplomatic maneuver | Frederick William the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia, the first of a line of men who will make modern Prussia, will help develop the overriding foreign policy of Prussia that the rest of Prussia's leaders will follow, a policy to connect all the various disconnected territories of Brandenburg Prussia. To do so, Frederick William the Great Elector will create the Prussian army. But his policy, and the policy of the Prussian leaders to follow, was unusual in how they planned on using their army. What was this plan? ( | 86 | |
| 211364710 | Junkers are the landed aristocracy, the nobility, used by being put into military service as the officer corps of the Prussian army | What are Junkers AND how did the monarchy use them? | 87 | |
| 211364711 | Charles VI died, left Austrian lands to Marie Theresa, and Fred II didn't want to abide by the Pragmatic Sanction | Frederick II, who got the title "the Great" was the son of Frederick William I. Frederick II used the army and state treasury left by his father to invade the nation of Silesia. Why did he do this? | 88 | |
| 211364712 | Stephen Razin led the uprising; consequence was that for over a century afterwards, serfdom was clamped down on the country more firmly than ever before | Who led the 1667 uprising of fugitive serfs, Cossacks, and adventurers AND what was the consequence put upon these people once he was caught and executed? | 89 | |
| 211364713 | Russian Orthodox followers who rejected the new translations of the Bible that were to correct misspellings in the old Bibles, they didn't like the new translations, saw these translations as work of the Antichrist | Who are the Old Believers And what did they feel was the work of the Antichrist and the devil? | 90 | |
| 211364714 | streltsi were the nobles who were the elite of the old army; served as the Moscow guard | What were the streltsi AND what function did they do/serve? | 91 | |
| 211364715 | Ottoman Empire/Turkey; Poland | A 1772 war between Catherine the Great's Russia and another nation was so easily won by Russia that it made Austria and Prussia worry about the balance of power politics in Eastern Europe. First, name the nation that lost so badly to Russia, and second, name the nation that got divided by Russia, Prussia, and Austria in their effort to restore the balance of power to Eastern Europe. | 92 |
