Chapter 19 - Terms

Question 0

a fleet of warships

Answer 0

Armada

Question 1

form of government in which unlimited power is held by a person or group

Answer 1

Absolutism

Question 2

system in which nations help keep peace and order by keeping any one person nation from becoming too powerful

Answer 2

Balance of Power

Question 3

landowning noble of early Russia

Answer 3

Boyars

Question 4

belief that a ruler derived power from God and was therefore responsible only to God

Answer 4

Divine Right

Question 5

new class of Russian landed nobility established by Peter the Great

Answer 5

Dvorianie

Question 6

name given the lesser nobles in England

Answer 6

Gentry

Question 7

situation in which prices rise quickly while the value of money decreases

Answer 7

inflation

Question 8

agents representing the king of France in local government

Answer 8

Intendants

Question 9

royal decree having the force law; one passed by Charles VI allowed Maria Theresa to rule

Answer 9

Pragmatic Sanction

Question 10

peasant laborer legally bound to the lands of a noble

Answer 10

serfs

Question 11

fleet of ships sent by Philip II to punish the English for helping the Dutch

Answer 11

Spanish Armada

Question 12

in English society, a farmer who owned land

Answer 12

Yeomen