Absolutism East

Question 0

Ottoman Empire

Answer 0

Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia ca. 1300. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453 to 1922. It encompassed lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and eastern Europe.

Question 1

Holy Roman Empire

Answer 1

Political affiliation of Germanic and central European city states and principalities to perpetuate Latin Christendom. Did not include England and France. Emperors after the 14th century were elected by seven electors representing the clergy and important participants

Question 2

Suleiman the magnificent

Answer 2

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire/against Catholic Habsburgs.

Question 3

Janissary Corps

Answer 3

Christian slaves who were not selected for the Ottoman bureaucracy served loyally instead in the Turkish army

Question 4

Poland Lithuania

Answer 4

Large non-unified state joined by two crowns. Comprised of Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Bohemia.

Question 5

Liberia veto

Answer 5

voting in Polish parliament had to be unanimous for changes to be made; thus, little could be done to systematically strengthen the kingdom

Question 6

Serfdom

Answer 6

feudal system, the use of serfs to work the land in return for protection against barbarian invasions

Question 7

Robot

Answer 7

in certain regions, peasants were required to work 3-4 days without pay per week for their local lord

Question 8

Hapsburg empire

Answer 8

a powerful family of German nobles in control of Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, parts of eastern Europe, the Austrian Empire, and the Holy Roman Empire.

Question 9

Bohemia

Answer 9

Protestant kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire where the people defied their new ruler who tried to close down Protestant churches. It is in modern day Czechoslovakia.

Question 10

Austria proper

Answer 10

Old hereditary provinces were centralized by Ferdinand III. Ferdinand created a permanent standing army, unprecedented fro the Hapsburg empire

Question 11

Hungary

Answer 11

a republic in Central Europe

Question 12

Leopoldo I

Answer 12

the head of Habsburg elected in 1657 and in return keeping two promises: give no help to his cousins, the rulers of Spain, and the empire would be a state of princes, in which each ruler would be free from imperial interference

Question 13

Siege of Vienna

Answer 13

Ottoman Empire attemped to invade Vienna but they were stopped by Leopold I

Question 14

Pragmatic Sanction

Answer 14

Issued by Charles VI of Austria in 1713 to assure his daughter Maria Theresa gained the throne

Question 15

Prussia

Answer 15

a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland