Growth of European Nation-States

Question 1

The exchange of valuable goods and resources from each continent was known as…

Answer 1

The Columbian Exchange

Question 2

Mercantilism

Answer 2

The mother country trades with the colonies and the colonies are not allowed to trade with other nations. It was intended to lessen financial dependence on other European countries

Question 3

Commercial Revolution

Answer 3

Helped intensify the age of discovery and exploration. Started with the Medici’s with the invention of banking as well as a large population increase

Question 4

30 Years’ War

Answer 4

Started as a religious conflict in central Europe, it spread when the Hapsburgs provoked an attack by Ottoman forces under Suleiman the Magnificient

Question 5

Time of Troubles

Answer 5

The time after the rule of Ivan the Terrible. Civil war ensued

Question 6

Concordat of Bologna

Answer 6

Agreement between Francis 1 and the Pope where the Pope could collect taxes from the church offices while Francis could nominate officials in the French Church.

Question 7

Edict of Nantes

Answer 7

Henry of Navarre guaranteed religious freedom in French territory

Question 8

Cardinal Richelieu

Answer 8

Prime Minister of France under Louis XIII.

Question 9

Cardinal Richelieu

Answer 9

Prime Minister of France under Louis XIII. He centralized the government and instituted the intendant system

Question 10

Jean Baptiste Colbert

Answer 10

Louis’s finance minister. He abolished internal tariffs and stimulated industry by subsidizing manufacturing. He wanted to create a strong military

Question 11

War of the Devolution

Answer 11

France unsuccessfully tried to take Belgium because of a feudal claim