Absolutism In Europe

Question 0

What’s an armada?

Answer 0

Naval fleet

Question 1

What’s divine right?

Answer 1

The belief that god gave the authority to rule

Question 2

Why did the Netherlands rebel against Spain?

Answer 2

The Dutch resisted Phillip II effort to crush their Protestant faith

Question 3

Why did Phillip II invade England? (2)

Answer 3

1. ) Phillip wanted to spread the Catholic faith

2. ) Queen Elizabeth (England) was ordering the plundering of Spanish treasure ships

Question 4

What’s an absolute monarch?

Answer 4

Ruler that has complete authority over the government and the people

Question 5

Who were the religious wars in France between?

Answer 5

The Catholics and the Huguenots (French Protestants)

Question 6

King Louis XIV’s successes (3)

Answer 6

1. ) the palace of Versailles
2. ) French army became strongest in Europe
3. ) French styles of art, culture, and customs became he standard for all of Europe

Question 7

Louis XIV’s failures

Answer 7

1. ) Spending money

2. ) Religious conflict

Question 8

Stuarts vs Parliament

Answer 8

Parliament challenged the Stuarts for absolute power

Question 9

What’s habeus corpus?

Answer 9

A person cannot be held in prison without being charged of a crime

Question 10

Who was Oliver Cromwell?

Answer 10

Leader of the Roundheads during English civil war

Question 11

Who was the English Civil war between?

Answer 11

Cavaliers (pro-monarchy) vs. Roundheads (pro-Parliament)

Question 12

Elizabeth I (2)

Answer 12

1. ) Defeated the Spanish Armada

2. ) Plundered Spanish treasure ships

Question 13

What did Mary and William do?

Answer 13

Signed the English Bill of Rights, limiting their own power and giving some to Parliament

Question 14

What did Austria and Prussia fight over?

Answer 14

Control of German states

Question 15

Results of the a Thirty Years War (2)

Answer 15

1. ) Germany was divided into 360 states

2. ) The Netherlands and Portugal became independent countries

Question 16

Frederick the Great (Frederick II)

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Answer 16

1. ) From Prussia
2. ) loved poetry and music, but had a harsh military childhood
3. ) Took Silesia from Austria, staring the Austrian Succession

Question 17

Peter the Great (5)

Answer 17

1. )Westernization
2. )Increased serfdom and forced nobles to work
3. )Expanded Russia’s territory to the west and south
4. ) gained warm water ports on the Baltic Sea
5. ) ended Russia’s isolation

Question 18

Catherine the Great

Answer 18

1. ) expanded education
2. ) continued westernization
3. ) ruthless, stranglehold on peasants
4. ) captured Poland
5. ) defeated the a Ottoman Empire

Question 19

What happened to Poland?

Answer 19

Captured by Catherine the Great in 1795

-disappeared from the European map until 1919