Constitutionalism

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Bill of Rights

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(1689) english document declaring that sovereignty resided with parliament

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Absolutism

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Monarch is supreme and exceed uses full and completely unilateral power

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Charles I

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Stuart king who created the English civil war by fighting with parliament

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Charles II

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Stuart king during the restoration following cromwells interregnum

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Colbert

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Louis XIV financial minister who promoted mercantilism

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Oliver Cromwell

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Principal leader and gentry member of puritans in parliament. Took over english government as lord protector

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Diggers and Levellers

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Radical english groups on the 1650’s who called for abolition of private ownership

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Divine right monarchy

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Belief that monarchs power derived from God. James I supported this in England

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Frederick the Great

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(1740-86) Prussian ruler who expanded his territory by invading Austrian Silesia

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Frederick William

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Prussian ruler who built a strong army and infused military values into society. The great elector

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French Classicism

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The style in 17th c. Art and literature resembling arts in the ancient/Renaissance world. Neoclassical

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Fronde

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The last aristocratic revolt against the French monarch

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Glorious Revolution

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(1688-1689) James II abdicated and was replaced by Mary Stuart and William of Orange

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Habeas Corpus

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Prevents imprisonment without demonstrated cause

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Thomas Hobbes

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(1588-1679) political theorist who advocated absolute monarchy based on his view of nature as anarchistic

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Interregnum

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(1649-1659) The period of cromwells rule between Charles I and II

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James I

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Asserted divine right of kings over constitutional principles

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James II

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Final Stuart ruler. Forced to abdicated and his successors agreed to bill of rights, guaranteeing parliaments supremacy

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John Locke

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Political theorist who defended the glorious revolution and argued natural rights of life liberty and property

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Louis XIV

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(1643-1704) the sun king. Established the supremacy of absolutism in 17th century France and Europe

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Maria Theresa

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Archduchess of Austria, queen of Hungary. Lost Silesia to Prussia but kept other territories

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Mercantilism

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Policy whereby the state and regulated the economy through tariffs subsidies and laws to the benefit of the mother country

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New Model Army

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Disciplined fighting Protestants under Cromwell in the civil war

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Peace of Utrecht

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(1713) concluded war of Spanish succession which forbade the Union of France and Spain despite placing a Bourbon on the spainish throne

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Peter the Great

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Romanov czar who began westernization by incorporating manufacturing techniques and cultural practices

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Petition of Right

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(1628) parliamentary document that restricted the Kings power. Called for recognition of the writ of habeas corpus and held that only parliament could impose taxes

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Puritan Revolution

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Referring to the English civil war (1642-1646)

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Puritans

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English Protestants hopping to purify the Anglican Church of Catholicism

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Restoration

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The return of the Stuart monarch after Cromwell

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Test Act

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(1673) law preventing Catholics and dissenters from holding office

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Versailles

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Palace built by Louis XIV outside of Paris to subdue the nobility

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War of the Spanish Succession

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(1701-1713) last of Louis XIV's wars over Spain's throne

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William of Orange

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(1672-1702) Dutch prince and foe of Louis XIV. Became king of England in 1689