Chapter 15

Question 1

Fronde

Answer 1

Individuals/groups who opposed government policies

Question 2

What did Louis XIV revoke?

Answer 2

Edict of Nantes.

• destruction of Huguenot churches
• schools
• exile of Huguenot pastors who refused

Why?
Louis wanted religious unity

Question 3

Huguenot

Answer 3

French Calvinist

Question 4

Mercantilism

Answer 4

System of economic regulations that were aimed at increasing the power of the state based on belief that a state’s power came from wealth.

Question 5

What did Colbert insist of the French industry?

Answer 5

French should make everything needed for the French

Question 6

Peace of Utrecht

Answer 6

1713-1715 
Treaties that ended:
“War of Spanish Succession” 
French expansion in Europe
Rise of British empire

Question 7

What caused Spanish disaster

Answer 7

Decline in Spanish trade with colonies

Native and African slaves dying in mines

Question 8

Why did agricultural productivity decline in Spain?

Answer 8

High rent and taxes drove peasants from the land

Question 9

Treaty of Pyrenees (1659)

Answer 9

Ended:
French/Spanish conflict
Spain surrendered some territories to France

Question 10

What is a serf?

Answer 10

an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord’s estate.