Absolutism In Western Europe: France And Spain 1589-1715

Question 0

_________ declared the edict of Nantes

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Henry IV

Question 1

Granted religious tolerance to French Huguenots

Answer 1

Edict of Nantes

Question 2

Henry VI appointed ____________ as his chief minister and made the tax system more efficient

Answer 2

Duke de sully

Question 3

Henry IV and duke de sully raised revenue by

Answer 3

Selling government offices known as robe nobles

Question 4

Second bourbon monarch

Answer 4

Louis XIII

Question 5

Appointed as Louis XIII’s chief minister

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Cardinal Richelieu

Question 6

Place public order over religious zeal

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Politique

Question 8

Henry IV was from

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France

Question 9

Second bourbon monarch

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Louis XIII

Question 10

Implemented royal orders

Answer 10

The intendants

Question 11

The intendants included what kind of people (social class)

Answer 11

Middle class hired as robe nobles or minor nobles

Question 12

The intendant system did what to nobles political power

Answer 12

Strengthen it

Question 13

The Intendant system did what to social and economic privileges of nobility in France.

Answer 13

Did not lessen but remained the same

Question 14

Prominent French churchman and principal theorist of 17th century absolutism

Answer 14

Bishop Bossuet

Question 15

Onl leader in 17the century to not share power with parliament

Answer 15

Louis XIV

Question 16

“L’etat, c’est moi”

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I am the state. Louis XIV

Question 17

Chief minister to Louis XIV

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Did not have chief minister

Question 18

Louis XIV increased the power of the __________ and reduced the political power of the ______________

Answer 18

Intendants

French nobility

Question 19

Louis did not give key positions to nobility but instead

Answer 19

Men from the bourgeois

Question 20

Sun king

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Louis XIV

Question 21

Louis XIV designed the Versailles palace to be

Answer 21

A symbol of his absolute power

Question 22

Louis XIV’s general of finances

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Jean baptist Colbert

Question 23

Colbert expanded manufacturing by

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Abolishing domestic tariffs

Question 24

Colbert protected French products by

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Placing high tariffs on goods coming into the country.

Question 25

Colbert encouraged people to emigrate to Canada because

Answer 25

Colonies were a good source of raw material

Question 26

Revocation of edict of Nantes occurred because

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Louis XIV wanted "one king, one law, one faith"

Question 27

As a result of the revocation of the edict of Nantes France lost

Answer 27

Many skilled workers of different religions

Question 28

Who supported the revocation of the edict of Nantes

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The French catholic clergy

Question 29

How many Huguenots fled France due to the revocation of the edict of Nantes

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About 200,000

Question 30

What were Louis XIV's two stratification goals in war

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Expand France's natural frontiers and make France a global power

Question 31

Smaller countries used balance of powers against Louis XIV in order to

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Stop his powerful invasions

Question 32

Balance of powers was threatened when In the beginning of the 18th century by Louis XIV when

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Charles II dies and left the Throne to Louis grandson, Phillip of Anjou

Question 33

The grand alliance included

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Holland, Austria, Brandenburg and Italian duchy of savoy

Question 34

The purpose of the grand alliance of the 18th century was to

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Stop Louis XIV from making a universal monarchy.

Question 35

War of Spanish sea session left France

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Battered and weakened with large debt.

Question 36

Treaty of Utrecht created

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A new balance if power that preserved peace for 30 years

Question 37

Spanish power reaches high point at the end of the 16th century under the rule of

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Phillip II

Question 38

Duke de sully's financial reform helped France by

Answer 38

Reducing debt building new roads and canals and encouraging colonization of the new world