Ch.16-17 Test

Question 0

What is the balance of power principle

Answer 0

It sets limits limits on the extent to which any one power can expand

Question 1

List the outcomes of the treaty of Utrecht

Answer 1

• maintained the balance of power in Europe
• ended the expansion of Louis 14
• England gained gibraltar, and asiento
• Bourbons assumed rule of Spain
• England gained Canadian territories
• HRE received buffer Spanish Netherlands

Question 2

Who was Cardinal Richelieu

Answer 2

Advisor of Louis XIII, looked to subdue the Hugonots, his foreign policy was all about France, advised Louis 13 to set up the intendant sytem, he was all about controlling the nobility, and about better France at the expend of the HRE

Question 3

Who was Thomas Hobbes?

Answer 3

Wrote the Leviathan, said that life is rough tough and mean and all men are sinners so because of that we need an absolute ruler, set the framework for Louis 14 to rule

Question 4

Jean Baptiste Colbert

Answer 4

Mercantilist, chief financial advisor for Louis 14, never made a national bank, thought government should create canals and roads for trade, he reduced tariffs and guilds.

Question 5

Who was James 2

Answer 5

Catholic king of England who was kicked out England because England feared the start of a Catholic dynasty, this started the glorious revolution

Question 6

What is the Glorious Revolution

Answer 6

When James 2 was kicked out of England because of fears of a Catholic dynasty and shortly after that Mary and William of Orange took the thrown

Question 7

What was the Rump parliament

Answer 7

What was left of parliament after Cromwell purged it, Cromwell purged it so he could execute Charles 1

Question 8

What was Charles 1’s execution?

Answer 8

Said he made a war on the people and tried to set up an absolutists state
Charles ruled without parliament for an extended period
This execution ended the English civil war
Cromwell had rump parliament convict and kill Charles

Question 9

What were the consequences of the defenestration of Prague

Answer 9

The thirty years war, and protestant nobles were replaced with catholic nobles

Question 10

What are the geographical characteristics of Prussia?

Answer 10

Prussia has no territorial integrity, it looks like someone sneezed on the map

Question 11

What were janissaries?

Answer 11

Christian slaves from the Balkins, who became Muslim followers of the sultan and workers of the state, Ottoman Empire

Question 12

What did Ivan 3 and Ivan 4 do in Russia?

Answer 12

Created a tradition that nobles would serve tsar

Question 13

Why was Moscow so important to the mongols during the time of the Mongol Yoke?

Answer 13

Mongols collected all of their taxes there, it was a central place to collect taxes

Question 14

What were Junkers?

Answer 14

Backbone of the Prussian military, filled the ranks of the Prussian military and maintained order

Question 15

What did Frederick William 1 do in Prussia?

Answer 15

He turned Prussia into an absolutist state and made Prussia a military power and the spartan of the North.

Question 16

Peter the Great in Russia

Answer 16

Sought to modernize and westernize Russia, built St.Petersburg with peasants and built it in the modern western style.

Question 17

What did the treaty of Westphalia do?

Answer 17

It ended the thirty years war, it affectively overrode the peace of Augsburg, it accepted Calvansim, and it created new countries like Switzerland and the Netherlands

Question 18

What was the Pragmatic sanction?

Answer 18

A decree by Charles 6 that said that Hapsburg possessions could never be divided, allowed his daughter to take the thrown

Question 19

List the characteristics of Frederick William

Answer 19

Did not get rid of serfdom
Advanced army
Increased taxes 
Began to militarize Prussia
Absolutist ruler
WnTed to unify provinces

Question 20

What did the hapsburgs do in the HRE

Answer 20

Pushed down and looked inward and eastward toward austrsi and Hungary

Question 22

What are the differences between western and eastern serfdom

Answer 22

Serfdom in Western Europe was basically abolished yet serfdom in Eastern Europe was revived because of economic hardship

Question 23

What were the phases and outcomes of the thirty years war

Answer 23

-Bohemian Phase
Bohemian civil war, catholic victory Bohemia catholic

-Danish phase
Catholic victory, Albert of wallenstein,

-Swedish phase
Gustavus Adolphus comes in and boosts Protestants, ended hapsburgs ambition to unite the German states

-French or international phase
French enters on behalf of protestant, goal was to weaken hapsburgs, treaty of Westphalia ends it

Question 24

What were the outcomes of the siege of Vienna?

Answer 24

Ottomans defeated, HRE starts to look in a new direction inward and eastward