Chapter 2

Question 1

Treaty of Westphalia (1648)

Answer 1

Treaty that ended the Thirty Years’ War

Question 2

Junkers

Answer 2

Prussia’s nobles

Question 3

Central Directory

Answer 3

Organized bureaucracy in Prussia

Question 4

Thomas Hobbes

Answer 4

English philosopher who argued for absolutism in Leviathan

Question 5

Bishop Bossuet

Answer 5

Louis XIV’s tutor who advocated for absolutism from a strictly religious point of view in Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Scripture

Question 6

Cardinal Richelieu

Answer 6

Chief minister and secretary of state to Louis XIII

Question 7

John Locke

Answer 7

Thought that rulers could only rule if he kept the people’s trust

Question 8

Louis XIV

Answer 8

Most powerful European monarch who said “I am the state” and revoked the Edict of Nantes

Question 9

James I

Answer 9

British king who asserted he ruled by divine right but never acted on his claims

Question 10

Charles I

Answer 10

British king who lost the English Civil War

Question 11

William III of Orange

Answer 11

King who won the Glorious Revolution

Question 12

Tsar Peter the Great (Peter I)

Answer 12

Turned Russia to the West