Monarchs
Absolute monarchs were able to keep bloodlines "pure" through this practice.
What are marriage alliances?
This document made Huguenots a protected group in France.
What is the Edict of Nantes?
This is the idea that leaders only answer to God, not subjects or other government officials; their power as a leader comes from Him, and thus, they only have to answer to Him.
What is Divine Right Theory?
What is the Spanish Armada?
This was an event in France in which thousands Huguenots were slaughtered.
What is the St. Bartholomew's day Massacre?
This Spanish Habsburg king in Spain and Holy Roman Emperor abdicated his thrones to his brother and son.
Who is Charles V (5th)?
This treaty ensured Spain and France could never unify.
What is the Treaty of Utrecht?
This event is named after its alleged lack of bloodshed, ignoring the amount of violence it caused in Ireland and Scotland.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This French palace was extremely extravagant, even by today's standards.
What is Versailles?
This occurred in Prague when Protestant protestors pushed Catholic officials out of a window.
What is the Defenestration of Prague?
This French monarch converted from Protestantism to Catholicism for political purposes.
Who is Henry IV (4th)?
This monarch later rejected the Edict of Nantes?
Who is Louis XIV (14th)?
Absolutism would decline by this timeframe.
What is the mid-1700s/Age of Revolutions?
This country modernized quickly, seeking to be considered equal to Western European countries despite its geographical distance.
What is Russia?
This war was fought over rising tensions between Catholics and Protestants?
What is the Thirty Years' War?
This monarch caused a civil war in England.
Who is Charles I?
This treaty divided the Holy Roman Empire (modern-day Germanic countries) into 360 separate states, laying the foundation for the modern nation-state.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
This event shifted England's history from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
These were the two sides of the Habsburg line.
What is Spanish and Austrian?
This French monarch mobilized and strengthened the national army.
Who is Maria Theresa?
These were the two groups in the English Civil War. (NAME and SIDE THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR.)
Who are cavaliers (pro-Charles) and roundheads (anti-Charles)?
This event was significant because it led to the first time in history a monarch was tried and subsequently executed by his own people.
What is the English Civil War?
This Germanic state was largely Protestant and imposed its will on surrounding States.
What is Prussia?
The Golden Horde was made up of these people.
Who are Mongols?