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Absolute Monarchs Flashcards

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What country failed to develop a middle class in the 1500’s because the tax burden on the lower classes prevented their ability to begin businesses?

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Spain

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Who wrote Don Quixote

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Cervantes

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Who replaced the Italians as the bankers of Europe

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the dutch

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4
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William of Orange helped free what country from what Spanish control?

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The Netherlands

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Philip II believed it was his duty to defend what religion from its enemies in Europe and the Ottoman Empire

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Catholicism

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What republic formed in the 16th century was an unusual type of government for Europe

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The United Provinces of Netherlands

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What country’s Armada was defeated by the English navy

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Spain

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What was the name of Louis XIV’s palace

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Versailles

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9
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Who was known as the sun king

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Louis XIV

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who was the minister to Louis XIV whose polices drove nobles to rebel against a boy king

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Mazarin

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Who was the minister to Louis XII who took steps to strengthen the power of the monarchy at the expense of the Huguenots and the nobility?

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Richelieu

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what group fought against Catholics in eight wars in France between 1562 and 1598

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Huguenots

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What conflict made France the most powerful country in Europe

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Thirty Years War

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Who was a writer who became a skeptic and developed the essay form

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Montaigne

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Who was the Protestant prince who became a Catholic King

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Henry of Navarre

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Who was the king who increased the power of the intendants at the expense of the nobility

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Louis XIV

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what was the name of a declaration of religious tolerance issued by Henry IV and canceled by Louis XIV

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Edict of Nantes

18
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who were government agents who collected taxes and administered justice

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intendants

19
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who was the first king of the Bourbon dynasty

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Henry of Narvarre

20
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Who was the minister of finance under Louis XIV whose policies of mercantilism caused France’s economy to grow and prosper

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Jean Baptiste Colbert

21
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Who won most of the early battles of the Thirty Years War

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The Hapsburgs

22
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what country did Frederick II lead

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Prussia

23
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In Europe, what were the results of the Seven Years War

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no change in land

24
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what county was Austria’s greatest enemy

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Prussia

25
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The War of Austrian Succession was fought over lands belonging to what, whom?

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Belonging to Maria Theresa, to inherit the Habsburg lands

26
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who was Ivan the Terrible’s cruelty aimed at

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boyars

27
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Why was the site St. Petersburg chosen

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Peter the Great wanted a seaport to make traveling to the west easier, he built the city of St. Petersburg on the Neva River

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What was Peter the Great’s main reason for visiting the west

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he wanted to learn European customs and manufacturing techniques

29
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Who was the first czar of Russia

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Ivan the Terrible

30
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At the time Peter the Great took the throne, what group was most essential to the Russian economy

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serfs

31
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Who were the boyars

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Russia’s landowning nobles

32
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What time period began when Charles II took the throne

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Restoration

33
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What king of England was tried and put to death

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Charles I

34
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What Calvinist king of Scotland inherited Elizabeth I’s throne as well a her conflicts with Parliament

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William of Orange

35
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What Puritan leader ruled England after the end of the English Civil War

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Oliver Cromwell

36
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What Puritan leader abolished the monarchy and ruled as a military dictator

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Oliver Cromwell

37
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What king of England lost the English Civil War

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Charles I

38
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What type of government did James I believe should exist

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Absolute Monarchy

39
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What prevented Monarchs from jailing people for purely political reasons and from indefinitely holding prisoners without trial

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Habeas Corpus

40
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What document made it clear the limits on royal power after the Glorious Revolution

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Bill of Rights

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