Unit 4 Flashcards
weakened the idea that war was ennobling; allow you to kill from a distance
gunpowder
Made Catholicism state religion of France
Concordat of Bologna
massacre of Calvinists by Catholics in Paris in 1572
St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
French Calvinists
Huguenots
French moderates that believed French unity was more important than religious differences
politiques
1st French politique king
Henry IV
granted French Huguenots freedom of worship in specified areas of France
Edict of Nantes
ruling dynasty of Spanish and Austria
Habsburgs
Spanish king who had to deal with Protestant revolt in the Low Countries
Philip II
literally, “Low Countries”
Netherlands
catholic leader sent by Philip II to crush revolt of Protestants in the Netherlands
Duke of Alva
he consolidated the 17 northern provinces of Netherlands into Union of Utrecht
William of Orange
English monarch that supported Protestant revolt in Netherlands
Elizabeth I
implicated in plot to assassinate Elizabeth; she was beheaded
Mary, Queen of Scots
fleet sent by Philip II to invade England
Spanish Armada