Absolute Monarchs

Question 1

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

Answer 1

serfs

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Louis XIV

Question 3

Who wrote Don Quixote?

Answer 3

Cervantes

Question 4

Who was the minister to Louis XIV whose policies drove nobles to rebel against a boy king?

Answer 4

Cardinal Mazarin

Question 5

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

Answer 5

James I

Question 6

who were boyars

Answer 6

Russia’s landowning nobles

Question 7

What countries Armada was defeated by the English navy?

Answer 7

Spain

Question 8

WHo was the Protestant prince who became a Catholic king?

Answer 8

Henry of Navarre (Henry IX)

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Catholicism

Question 10

What group fought against the Catholics in eight wars in France between 1562 and 1598?

Answer 10

Huguenots

Question 11

Why was the site of St. Petersburg chosen?

Answer 11

for a water route to Europe

Question 12

What time period began when Charles II took the throne?

Answer 12

Restoration

Question 13

Who replaced the Italians as the bankers of Europe?

Answer 13

The Dutch

Question 14

William of Orange helped free what country from Spanish control?

Answer 14

Netherlands

Question 15

What was the name of Louis XIV’s palace

Answer 15

Versailles

Question 16

Who was the first czar of Russia?

Answer 16

Ivan the terrible

Question 17

What country was Austria’s greatest enemy?

Answer 17

Prussia

Question 18

What type of government did James I believe should exist?

Answer 18

absolute monarchy

Question 19

WHat document made it clear the limits on royal power after the Glorious Revolution?

Answer 19

Bill of Rights

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Jean Baptiste Colbert

Question 21

Who was Ivan the Terrible’s cruelty aimed at

Answer 21

boyars

Question 21

WHat Puritan leader ruled England after the end of the English Civil War?

Answer 21

Oliver Cromwell

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Oliver Cromwell

Question 22

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

Answer 22

wanted to westernize his nation

Question 22

What was the name of the declaration of religious tolerance by Henry I and cancelled by Louis XIV?

Answer 22

Edict of Nantes

Question 23

What king of England lost the English Civil War?

Answer 23

Charles I

Question 24

Who were government agents who collected taxes and administered justice?

Answer 24

Intendants

Question 25

What prevented monarchs from jailing people for purely political reasons and from indefinitely holding prisoners without trial?

Answer 25

Habeas Corpus

Question 26

Who was the first king of the Bourbon Dynasty?

Answer 26

Henry IV

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Netherlands