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Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis

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Treaty that ended the Habsburg-Valois Wars

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Huguenots

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French Calvinists

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Saint Bartholomew’s Day

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The Huguenots in Paris were massacred spreading religious violence
Led to the war of the three Henrys

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politiques

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..believed that only restoration of strong monarchy could reverse the trend towards collapse

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Edict of Nantes

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Granted Huguenots liberty of public worship in many fortified towns

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Union of Utrecht

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Seven northern provinces declaring their independence from Spain

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Spanish Armada

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Battle between England and Spain. England won. It prevented Phillip II from reimposing religious unity on Western Europe by force.

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Peace of Westaphilia

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The treatise recognized sovereign independent authority of German princes, each governing own territory

Denied the papacy the right to participate in German religious affairs

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Baroque

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Eighteenth century art that stressed the influence of Rome and the reformed Catholic Church. Religious aspect striving from the Catholic Reformation

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Sovereignty

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Absolutism

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Totalitarianism

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Direct all facets of a states culture (art, education, religion) in the interest of the state

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Constitutionalism

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Limitation of government by law.

Balanced between authority and power of government, and the right and liberties of the subjects

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Puritans

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Second Treatise of Civil Government

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States General

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Serfdom

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Bohemian estates

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Sultan

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Millet system

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Pragmatic sanction

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Cossacks

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Law of inertia

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Law of universal gravitation

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Empiricism

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Philosophes

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Social critics of the 18th century

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Separation of powers

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Open field system

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Divided the land to be cultivated by the peasants of a given village into several large fields

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Crop rotation

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Alternating a number of grain and crops. Led to scientific farming.

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Enclosure

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Enclose and consolidate their scattered holdings into compact, fenced-in fields in order to farm more effectively

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Proletarianization

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Transformation of large numbers of small peasant farmers into landless rural wage earners

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Navigation Acts

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The act required most goods imported from Europe into England/Scotland be carried on British owned ships with British crews/ships of country producing the article

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Glorious Revolution

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War of the Spanish Succession

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Louis XIV declared willingness to accept Spanish crown

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The War of the Austrian Succession

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Seven years war

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Louis XIV

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Mercantilism

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Collection of governmental policies for regulation of economic activities

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What did the revocation of the Edict of Nantes do?

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Ordered destruction of churches, Catholic baptism of Huguenots and exile of Huguenot pastors

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The House of Commons

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