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Absolutism Flashcards

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What is Paulette?

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Fees paid to ensure familial line to royal offices

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What do absolute monarchs believe in?

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Rule by “divine right”

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The Fronde was….

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A series of rebellions in France

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Who is the Sun King?

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Louis XIV and revoked the Edict of Nantes

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Bishop Boussuet stated that..

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Only God was to judge to the king

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Why did Louis build the palace of Versailles?

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To dominate the French nobility and Parisian mob

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Who started mercantilism?

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Jean- Baptiste Colbert

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What did Jean Baptiste Colbert also organize?

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The French East India Company

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What did Oliver Cromwell create?

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The New Model Army

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What did the Levellers and Diggers believe in?

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Want universal male suffrage

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Who demanded the repeal of the Test Act and why?

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James II because he did not want to be catholic

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James II was overthrown by whom?

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William and Mary

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What were the 5 Acts created?

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The Bill of Rights, The Act of Toleration, The Mutiny Act, The Act of Settlement, The Act of Union

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Charles VI passed all the territories to his heir by

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Creating the Pragmatic Sanction

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The seven years war began when

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Fredrick launched to defeat his enemies: Austria and France but gets defeated by Russia

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Who worked with the Junkers?

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Fredrick William

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Who freed the serfs?

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Fredrick the Great

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Who proclaimed thyself Tsar of Russia?

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Ivan the Terrible

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Who establishes the system of Absolute monarchy in Russia after the death of Ivan the Terrible?

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Peter the Great

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Peter the great and Catherine the great

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Westernized Russia as a result, Russia comes out of isolation

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Catherine the Great created the Charter of the Nobility which allowed

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To be charged in front of a jury

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Who fought in the Great Northern War?

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Russia and Sweden. The war was fought to show Russia’s power

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Who creates the first Russia Navy?

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Peter the Great

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