Ch 15

Question 1

Baroque

Answer 1

An artistic movement of the seventeenth century in Europe that used dramatic effects to arouse the emotions and reflected the search for power that was a large part of the seventeenth century ethos

Question 2

Gentry

Answer 2

Well-to-do English landowners below the level of nobility. They played an important role in the English civil war of the seventeenth century.

Question 3

Procurator

Answer 3

The head of the holy synod, the chief decision making body for the Russian Orthodox Church

Question 4

Absolutism

Answer 4

A form of government in which the sovereign power or ultimate authority rested in the hands of a monarch who claimed to rule by divine right and was therefore responsible only to God

Question 5

Boyars

Answer 5

The Russian nobility

Question 6

Mannerism

Answer 6

A sixteenth century artistic movement in erupted that deliberately broke down the high renaissance principles of balance, harmony, and moderation