Topic 3: 3.1 and 3.2 Test

Question 1

Absolute Monarchies

Answer 1

The chief characteristic of this political system that a ruler has complete authority over the government and the lives of people

Question 2

depopulation

Answer 2

the Thirty Years led to a severe population meaning reduction in population.

Question 3

Catholic majority and Protestant (Huguenot) minority fostered what?

Answer 3

fostered wars of religion

Question 4

who issued the Edict of Nante and what is it?

Answer 4

Henry VI and it granted religious toleration to Huguenots

Question 5

what did Louis XIII’s chief minister Cardinal Richelieu do
how?

Answer 5

weakened and destroy the power of the nobles and Huguenots, expanding the power of the monarchy. They did this by destroying armies and attack cities and by making them feel like nothing than promoting them to keep them close

Question 6

how did Louis XIV expand his power?

Answer 6

building a strong army and waging several wars

Question 7

what did Louis build and what was it a symbol of

Answer 7

Versailles—a symbol of his power and wealth

Question 8

Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes resulting in…

Answer 8

the exodus of over 100,000 Huguenots, which damaged the French economy

Question 9

What were the results of the Thirty Years’ War?

Answer 9

depopulation, burning of villages and left the German lands in 360 separate states “each of every day of the year”

Question 10

How did European nations try to maintain a balance of power?

Answer 10

by forming alliances and switching partners

Question 11

divine right

Answer 11

there rule came directly from God

Question 12

What steps did Peter the Great take to modernize Russia?

Answer 12

importing western technology, simplifying alphabet, set up academies for math, science and engineering, improved water ways and canals, developed mining, and new trading companies. He worked to build Russia’s military power by building a world-class navy from scratch. Building thing and enforced things based on what he had learned from the western lands.

Question 13

what was the consequences of the Edict of Nante

Answer 13

humans fled to France and settled in other lands; hurt the economy, labor shortage, less tax money

Question 14

westernization

Answer 14

the adoption of wester ideas, techno and culture.

Question 15

who is French quote by and what is it

Answer 15

I am the state (shows absolutism)

Question 16

how did Henry westernize Russia

Answer 16

When Peter returned to Russia he brought a group of technical experts, teachers and soldiers. He embarked on the adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture. He forced boyars to shave their traditional beards and wear Western-style clothes, held grand parties at which men and women were expected to dance together, he forced the boyars to serve the state in civilian or military jobs.

Question 17

What was Prince Henry’s goal?

Answer 17

to find the warm water port to increase Russia’s ability to trade with the West.

Question 18

Peter the great controlled

Answer 18

the Russian Orthdox Church

Question 19

Treaty of Nystad

Answer 19

gave Russia access to the Baltic Sea-key trade and connecting with the West.

Question 20

Table of Ranks

Answer 20

social status determined by service to state not by heredity (doesn’t matter who your father is, its about what u do and what u become)

Question 21

What caused the Thirty Years War?

Answer 21

Emperor Ferdinand II to forcefully convert Protestant citizens to Catholicism. Protestant powers like Sweden and Netherlands sent troops to Germany. Ferdinand wanted to roll back to Reformation by force

Question 22

who became the heir of the Hapsburg Empire in 1519

Answer 22

Charvles I or V which including German states oof the holy roman empire and dutch netherlands

Question 23

who seized rich Hapsburg and what war did it spark?

Answer 23

Frederk II; War of Austrian Sucession

Question 24

sun king

Answer 24

Louis XIV

Question 25

what did St. Petersburg symbolize

Answer 25

his desire to form a mordern-western Russia

Question 26

Versillas was..

Answer 26

the center of political life and aspired to be close to the king