Ap Euro 1.5 (The Rise of New Monarchs)

Question 1

During the Middle Ages, kings shared their power with…

Answer 1

The nobles and sometimes the church, with the nobility being the most powerful of the three.

Question 2

This monarch structure of the king sharing power began to change in the…

Answer 2

1500’s

Question 3

New monarchs did what that differed from the “old monarchs” (monarchs from the Middle Ages?)

Answer 3

They shifted power away from the nobility and the church, and instead consolidated that power all to themselves.

Question 4

The Treason Act:

Answer 4

Act passed in England that made it illegal to not recognize the church of England (the Anglican church) as the official state church

Question 5

Bureaucracy:

Answer 5

Government-made group of officials whose job is to make sure people follow the laws

Question 6

The Concordat of Bologna:

Answer 6

French agreement where the Pope has the right to collect income from the French Catholic Church

Question 7

What did the Peace of Augsburg of 1555 do?

Answer 7

Gave individual rulers in the Holy Roman Empire the right to decide whether their subjects would be Catholic or Lutheran

Question 8

The Medici and Augsburg families both…

Answer 8

Established the banking systems (the Medici in Florence, and the Augsburg in the German states.)