1152990313 | Hapsburg Empire | Central European empire that lasted from the 1400s to the 1900s and at its height included the lands of the Holy Roman Empire and the Netherlands | 0 | |
1152990314 | Charles V | (1519-1556) - Hapsburg dynastic ruler of the Holy Roman Empire and of extensive territories in Spain and the Netherlands. | 1 | |
1152990315 | Phillip II | King of Spain, 1556 - 1598; married to Queen Mary I of England;he was the most powerful monarch in Europe until 1588; controlled Spain, the Netherlands, the Spanish colonies in the New World, Portugal, Brazil, parts of Africa, parts of India, and the East Indies. | 2 | |
1152990316 | Absolute Monarch | A system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power | 3 | |
1152990317 | divine right | Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god. | 4 | |
1152990318 | Armada | A fleet of warships | 5 | |
1152990319 | Hugenots | French Protestants | 6 | |
1152990320 | Henry IV | (1589-1610) - Formerly Henry of Navarre; ascended the French throne as a convert to Catholicism. Surrived St. Bartholomew Day, signed Edict of Nantes, quoted as saying "Paris is worth a mass." | 7 | |
1152990321 | Edict of Nantes | 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of conscience and worship. | 8 | |
1152990322 | cardinal richelleu | 1624-1642 Held most of the power in France during the reign of Louis 13; | 9 | |
1152990323 | Louis XIV | (1638-1715) Known as the Sun King, he was an absolute monarch that completely controlled France. One of his greatest accomplishments was the building of the palace at Versailles. | 10 | |
1152990324 | Versailles | A palace built for Louis XIV near the town of Versailles, southwest of Paris. It was built around a chateau belonging to Louis XIII, which was transformed by additions in the grand French classical style | 11 | |
1152990325 | Balance of power | distribution of military and economic power that prevents any one nation from becoming too strong | 12 | |
1152990326 | James I | (1603-1625) Stuart monarch who ignored constitutional principles and asserted the divine right of kings. | 13 | |
1152990327 | Dissenter | ... | 14 | |
1152990328 | puritans | A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay. | 15 | |
1152990329 | Charles I | (1625-1649) Stuart king who brought conflict with Parliament to a head and was subsequently executed. | 16 | |
1152990330 | Oliver Cromwell | ..., English military, political, and religious figure who led the Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War (1642-1649) and called for the execution of Charles I. As lord protector of England (1653-1658) he ruled as a virtual dictator. | 17 | |
1152990331 | English bill of rights | King William and Queen Mary accepted this document in 1689. It guaranteed certain rights to English citizens and declared that elections for Parliament would happen frequently. By accepting this document, they supported a limited monarchy, a system in which they shared their power with Parliament and the people. | 18 | |
1152990332 | constitutional monarchy | A form of government in which the king retains his position as head of state, while the authority to tax and make new laws resides in an elected body. | 19 | |
1152990333 | limited monarchy | A system of government that emerged in England in which the monarch was made to share power with an elected Parliament. | 20 | |
1152990334 | oligarchy | A government ruled by a few powerful people | 21 | |
1152990335 | peace of West Phalia | Ended 30 year war. Established that the religion of the king is the religion of the state | 22 | |
1152990336 | War of Austrain Succession | Cardinal fleury would abandon his planned naval attack on british trade and instead to support the Prussian aggression against the austrian, the traditional enemy of France. The french move against Austria brought Great Britain into the continetal war, as Britain sought to make sure the low countries remained the friendly hand of austria, not france.In 1744 the British-French conflict expanded beyond the continent when france supported Spain against Britain in the new world. French military and economic resources began to divide and could not bring sufficient strength and france lost against Great Britain. | 23 | |
1152990337 | Prussia | A former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland | 24 | |
1152990338 | Frederick William I | (1713-1740) Calvinist; his reforms were intended to subordinate both aristocracy and peasantry to the needs of the state + subordinate needs of the states to the demands of the military; integrated economic +military structures of state; appointed only German officers to command troops, eliminating mercenaries who sold their services to the highest bidder; placed noblemen at head of locally recruited regiments; every adult male required to register for service in regiment of local landlord; by end of reign, almost 70% of state expenditures went to army, pacific foreign policy | 25 | |
1152990339 | Fredrick II | German king who tried to take land from the Pope, than the Pope excommunicated him and he lost all power | 26 | |
1152990340 | Maria Theresa | This was the queen of Austria as a result of the Pragmatic Sanction. She limited the papacy's political influence in Austria, strengthened her central bureaucracy and cautiously reduced the power that nobles had over their serfs | 27 | |
1152990341 | peter the great | (1672-1725) Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg. | 28 | |
1152990342 | westernization | Adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture | 29 | |
1152990343 | Autocratic | Absolute in power or authority | 30 | |
1152990344 | Boyar | Russian landholding aristocrats; possessed less political power than their western European counterparts | 31 | |
1152990345 | St Petersburg | Capitol city created by Peter the Great to resemble a French city. It was built on land taken from Sweeden | 32 | |
1152990346 | Warm Water Port | A port that Peter the Great desperately wanted in order to increase Russia's ability to trade with the West. | 33 | |
1152990347 | Cathrine the great | Ruled Russia. Enlightened Despot. She believed in religious tolerance, abolished torcher, and ruled based on Montesquieu and Beccaria's ideas. | 34 | |
1152990348 | partition | A division into parts, like the 1947 division of the British colony of India into nations of India and Pakistan. | 35 |
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