Absolute Monarchs in Europe - Chapter 21

Question 1

Important leader of Russia who started westernization

Answer 1

Peter the Great

Question 2

Belief that nothing could be known for certain

Answer 2

Skepticism

Question 3

Conflict over religion, territory, and power among European ruling families

Answer 3

Thirty Years’ War

Question 4

French king who was an absolute ruler

Answer 4

Louis XIV

Question 5

Leader of Prussia who sought to increase its territory

Answer 5

Frederick the Great

Question 6

King of England who was executed

Answer 6

Charles I

Question 7

Order that gave Huguenots the right to live in peace in Catholic France

Answer 7

Edict of Nantes

Question 8

Period after the monarchy was restored in England

Answer 8

Restoration

Question 9

Chief Minister of Finance under Louis XIV

Answer 9

Jean Baptiste Colbert

Question 10

Idea that a ruler receives the right to rule from God

Answer 10

Divine Right

Question 11

Chief minister of France who reduced the power of the nobles

Answer 11

Cardinal Richelieu

Question 12

Use of western Europe as a model of change

Answer 12

Westernization

Question 13

Leader of the Puritans

Answer 13

Oliver Cromwell

Question 14

Law giving prisoners the right to obtain a document saying that the prisoner cannot go to jail without being brought before a judge

Answer 14

Habeas Corpus

Question 15

Spanish king who took control of Portugal but failed in his invasion of England

Answer 15

Philip II

Question 16

Official of the French government

Answer 16

Intendant

Question 17

King or queen with complete control

Answer 17

Absolute Monarch

Question 18

Conflict from 1756 to 1763 in which the forces of Britain and Prussia battled those of Austria, France, Russia, and other countries.

Answer 18

Seven Years’ War

Question 19

War fought from 1642 to 1649 between the Royalists, or Cavaliers, and the Puritan supporters of Parliament

Answer 19

English Civil War

Question 20

War fought by other European nations against France and Spain when those two states tried to unite their thrones

Answer 20

War of the Spanish Succession

Question 21

Bloodless overthrow of King James II

Answer 21

Glorious Revolution

Question 22

Empress of Austria whose main enemy was Prussia

Answer 22

Maria Theresa

Question 23

A group of government ministers that was a link between the monarch and Parliament

Answer 23

Cabinet

Question 24

Government in which laws limit the monarch’s power

Answer 24

Constitutional Monarchy

Question 25

Ruler who added lands to Russia, gave it a code of laws, and also used his secret police to execute “traitors”

Answer 25

Ivan the Terrible

Question 26

Russian noble who owned land

Answer 26

Boyar