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Unit 6 Flashcards

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form of feudal bondage in which a peasant was 1) obligated to stay on a piece of land (couldn’t move) 2) obligated to give service to a lord

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serfdom

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weak political entity in central Europe largely composed of the German-speaking states

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Holy Roman Empire

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Austrian city laid siege to by the Ottoman Turks in the 1690s

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Vienna

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Austrian ruling dynasty

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Habsburgs

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Prussian ruling dynasty

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Hohenzollerns

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Russian ruling dynasty

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Romanovs

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Charles VI’s attempt to guarantee that his daughter could inherit Habsburg lands without a challenge and KEEP THESE THREE TERRITORIES INTACT

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Pragmatic Sanction

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this nation consistently resisted Habsburg rule and won privileges in return for accepting Habsburgs

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Hungary

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first Hohenzollern to build Prussia into a great power

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Frederick William the Great Elector

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Prussian nobility and land-owning class

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Junkers

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Prussian “Soldier King”; created militaristic society and strong, centralized bureaucracy

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Frederick William I

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first great Russian state-builder; tsar of Muscovy

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Ivan the Terrible

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Russian nobility and land-owning class

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boyars

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Russian ruler; from Latin “caesar”

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tsar

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period of Russian unrest following Ivan the Terrible’s death

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Time of Troubles

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peasants who fled east out of the tsar’s reach during period of Russian state-building

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Cossacks

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greatest of the Russian state-builders; utilized western technology and built a city that was called the “window to the west”

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Peter the Great

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war between Russia and Sweden; resulted in Russia gaining Estonia and Latvia

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Great Northern War (1700-1721)

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emotional form of art and architecture that dominated the 1600s

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Baroque

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palace of Louis XIV; influenced other palaces in 1600s and 1700s

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Versailles

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palace of Habsburgs; modeled on Versailles; located in Vienna

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Schoenbrunn

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built starting in 1702; began as military fortress; became Russia’s “window to the west”

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St Petersburg

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Baroque Russian palace built by Russian Empress Elizabeth

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Winter Palace

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