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an economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.
Mercantilism
published The Wealth of Nations, often considered the first work on modern economics, in 1776.
Adam Smith
The loss of this country's Navy to the British marked a turning point in world power
Spain
The organization was founded in 1686 as the League of Augsburg in an attempt to halt Louis XIV of France’s expansionist policies. After the Treaty of Hague was signed in 1701, it went into a second phase as the Alliance of the War of Spanish Succession.
Grand Alliance
This is the fastest land animal in the world with speeds up to 70 mph
cheetah
The collective domestic policies of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1765–1790).
Josephenism
Childless King of Spain who was childless and was the reason for the War of Spanish Succession
Charles II of Spain
Two peace treaties that in 1714 ended ongoing European conflicts following the War of the Spanish Succession. The first treaty, signed between France and Austria in the city of Rastatt, followed the earlier Treaty of Utrecht of 1713, which ended hostilities between France and Spain on the one hand, and Britain and the Dutch Republic on the other hand. The second treaty, signed in Baden, was required to end the hostilities between France and the Holy Roman Empire.
Treaties of Rastatt and Baden
A series of wars in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. Initially a war between various Protestant and Catholic states in the fragmented Holy Roman Empire, it gradually developed into a more general conflict involving most of the great powers.
Thirty Years' War
This is the eighth planet in the solar system and is named after a Roman god
Neptune
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Capitalism
significantly modernized Prussian economy, administration, judicial system, education, finance, and agriculture, but never attempted to change the social order based on the dominance of the landed nobility.
Frederick the Great
A major European conflict of the early 18th century (1701/2–1714) triggered by the death in 1700 of the last Habsburg king of Spain, Charles II. The Austrians, the Dutch, and English allies formally declared war against France and its allies in May 1702
War of Spanish Succession
A 1756 military alliance between Great Britain and Prussia in which the two state agreed that Britain would not aid Austria in a renewed conflict for Silesia if Prussia agreed to protect Hanover from France.
Westminster Convention of 1756
also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Bermuda Traingle
A book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and published in 1651. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. It argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign.
Leviathan
enthusiastically supported the ideals of the Enlightenment, thus earning the status of an enlightened despot, although her reforms benefited a small number of her subjects and did not change the oppressive system of Russian serfdom.
Catherine the Great
A series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians (“Roundheads”) and Royalists (“Cavaliers”) over, principally, the manner of England’s government.
English Civil War
An English Parliament that lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had been held for three weeks during the spring of 1640, and which in its turn had followed a parliamentary absence of eleven years
Long Parliament
In what sport is a wooden mallet and ball used
croquet
The status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism. It was a condition of bondage that developed primarily during the High Middle Ages in Europe and lasted in some countries until the mid-19th century.
Serfdom
introduced a series of reforms that affected nearly every realm of life in his empire, but his commitment to modernization engendered significant opposition, which eventually led to a failure to fully implement his programs.
Joseph II of Austria
A 1698 treaty, known also as the First Partition Treaty, between England and France. The accord attempted to resolve who would inherit the Spanish throne, proposing that Duke Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria be the heir.
Treaty of Hague
A major participant in the French Wars of Religion, formed by Henry I, Duke of Guise, in 1576.
French Catholic League
The lifespan of this now extinct carnivorous creature was 20-30 years
T-rex