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Vocabulary CH 15 Flashcards

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James II

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final Stuart ruler; forced to abdicate in favor of William and Mary guaranteeing parliamentary supremacy

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Petition of Right

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parliamentary document that restricted king’s power; called for recognition of the writ of habeas corpus and held that only Parliament could impose new taxes

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Puritan Revolution

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reference to the English civil war, waged to determine whether sovereignty would reside in monarch or Parliament

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William of Orange

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Dutch prince and foe of Louis XIV who became king of England in 1689

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Dutch East India Company

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chartered joint stock company that controlled spice trade in the East Indies

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Puritanism

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Protestant sect in England hoped to purify the Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice and organization

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Charles I

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brought conflict with Parliament to a head and was subsequently executed

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Absolutism

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theory that monarch is supreme and can exercise full and complete power unilaterally

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Concordat of Bologna

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treaty under which the French Crown recognized supremacy of the pope over a council and obtained the right to appoint all French bishops and abbots

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Vasco de Gama

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first European to reach Pacific Ocean?

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Frederick the Great

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Prussian ruler who expanded territory by invading the duchy of Silesia and defeating Maria Theresa of Austria

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Versailles

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palace contructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility

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Diggers and Levellers

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radical groups in England in the 1650s who called for the abolition of private ownership and extension of the franchise

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Colbert

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financial minister under the French king Louis XIV who promoted mercantilist policies

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Elizabeth I

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Protestant ruler of England, helped stabilize religious tensions by subordinating theological issues to political considerations

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Armada

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Spanish vessels defeated in the English channel by an English fleet thus preventing Philip II’s invasion of England

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Prince William of Orange

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Leader of the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands

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Interregnum

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period of Cromwellian rule between the Stuart dynastic rules if Charles I and Charles II

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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sponsor of voyages along West African coasts

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Thomas Hobbes

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Political theorist advocating absolute monarchy based on his concept of an anarchic state of nature

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Constitutionalism

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theory that power should be shared between rulers and their subjects and the state governed according to laws

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Habeas Corpus

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legal protection that prohibits the imprisonment of a subject without demonstrated cause

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Peter the Great

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Romanov czar who initiated westernization of Russian society by traveling to the West and incorporating techniques of manufacturing as well as manners and dress

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Charles II

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king during Restoration following Cromwell’s interregnum

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Peace of Westphalia

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treaty ending Thirty Years’ War in Germany; it allowed each prince whether Lutheran, Catholic, or Calvinist to choose the established creed of his territory

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French Classicism

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style in seventeenth century art and literature resembling the arts in the ancient world and in the Renaissance
like works of Poussin, Moliere, and Racine

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Maria Theresa

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archduchess of Austria queen of Hungary who lost the Hapsburg possession of Silesia to Frederick the Great but was able to keep her other Austrian territories

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Francisco Pizarro

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conquerer of Peru

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Defenestration of Prague

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hurling of Catholic officials from a castle window in Prague setting off the Thirty Years’ War

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Bartholomew Diaz

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first European to reach southern tip of Africa

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Frederick William

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“Great Elector” who built strong Prussian army and infused military values into Prussian society

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Oliver Cromwell

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principal leader and a gentry member or the Puritans in Parliament

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Restoration

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return of the Stuart monarchy after the period of republican government under Cromwell

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James I

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monarch who ignored constitutional principles and asserted divine right of kings

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Gustavus Adolphus

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Swedish Lutheran who won victories for German Protestants in Thirty Years War and lost his life in one of battles

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Christopher Columbus

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first European to sail to West Indies

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Ferdinand Magellan

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circumnavigator of the globe

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Hueguenots

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French Calvinists

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Peace of Utrecht

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pact concluding the War of the Spanish succession forbidding the union of France with Spain and conferring control of Gibraltar on England

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Bill of Rights

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English document declaring that sovereignty resided with Parliament

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Glorious Revolution

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reference to political events when James II abdicated his throne and was replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange

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Louis XIV

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ruler of France who established the supremacy of absolutism

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Fernando Cortez

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conqueror of the Aztecs

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John Locke

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defended the glorious Revolution with the argument that all people are born with certain natural rights to life, liberty, and property

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Test Act

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law prohibiting Catholics and dissenters to hold political office

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Fronde

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last aristocratic revolt against the English monarch

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Edict of Nantes

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edict of Henry IV that granted Huguenots the rights of public worship and religious tolerance in France

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Duke of Avila

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Military leader sent by Philip to pacify the Low Countries

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New Model Army

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disciplined fighting force of Protestants led by Oliver Cromwell

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Mercantilism

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governmental policies by which the state regulates the economy through taxes, tariff, subsidies, and laws

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St. Bartholomew’s Day

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Catholic attack on Calvinists on marriage day of Margaret of Valois to Henry IV

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Catherine de Medici

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exercised political influence after death of her husband

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War of the Spanish succession

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last of Louis XIV’s wars involving the issue of succession to the Spanish throne

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Henry IV

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ascended the French throne as a convert to Catholicism

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Phillip II

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successor to Charles V ruling Spain and the Low Countries

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Divine Right Monarchy

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belief that a monarch’s power derived from God and represents him on earth

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