Die Österreicher & Central Europe
The family that comes to power in Austria.
Habsburgs
The palace of Louis XIV.
Versailles
The most famous Prussian king.
Frederick William
A powerful and long-lasting Russian dynasty.
Romanovs
They wanted to cleanse the Anglican church of Catholic elements.
A means for the Austrian royal family to gain land.
Inheriting
The resistance to Louis' taxes.
(Le) Fronde
Another name for Prussian nobility.
Junkers
The gun wielding discontent middle class.
Streltsy
He believed in "divine right" to rule as king.
Charles / James
Land owned in modern Czech Republic.
Bohemia
The style of monarchy practiced by Louis.
Absolute Monarchy
The most powerful Prussian family.
Hohenzollerns
Most powerful Russian ruler.
Peter the Great
The 2 political parties that came from debates over James II's potential kingship.
Whigs & Tories
The queen supported by the Pragmatic Sanction
Maria Theresa
A group of Catholics seen as heretical.
Jansenists
The sea on whose coast Prussia gained much land.
Baltic Sea
The model country for Russia's modernization.
France
He led the Parliamentary "New Model Army"
Oliver Cromwell
The name of the Polish assemblies.
Sejm
The war which included battles in Europe and America.
The Nine Year's War
The Emperor who gave Prussia its crown.
Leopold I
Russia's enemy in the Baltic Sea
Sweden
Another name for the bloodless change of power in 1688.
Glorious Revolution