Spain's Empire and European Absolutism
During his reign as king of Spain, he was known for being a defender of Catholicism.
Who was Phillip II?
This was passed by Henry of Navarre in 1598 to declare religious toleration in France, which was later cancelled by Louis XIV.
What was the Edict of Nantes?
This was a conflict over religion and territory and for power among European ruling families.
What was the Thirty Years' War?
He came to the throne when he was 3 years of age and began a rule by terror after his wife was allegedly poisoned by boyars in 1560.
Who was Ivan the Terrible?
Charles I signed this document claiming he would not imprison subjects without due cause, levy taxes without Parliament's consent, house soldiers in private homes, or impose martial law in peacetime, but ignored it.
What was the Petition of Right?
These two things crippled the Spanish economy in the 1500s.
What are inflation and taxes?
He was the true ruler of France when Louis XIV became a king at 4 years of age.
Who was Cardinal Mazarin?
This was the treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War.
What was the Peace of Westphalia?
These were Russia's landowning nobles.
Who were boyars?
He led the Puritans to victory in the English Civil War and became a military dictator in England.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
This term means for a king or queen to control all of the power within their states' boundaries.
What is an absolute monarch?
He was the Minister of Finance under Louis XIV.
Who was Jean Baptiste Colbert?
This woman became the Empress of Austria after her father Charles VI passed away.
Who was Maria Theresa?
His legacy includes westernizing Russia, bringing the Russian Orthodox Church under state control, and moving building the west coast port city, St. Petersburg.
Who was Peter the Great?
He was the ruler responsible for the Restoration to monarchy in England following the death of Oliver Cromwell.
Who was Charles II?
This was the idea that God created the monarchy and that the monarch acted as God's representative on Earth.
What is divine right?
This is the name of Louis XIV's palace, which is now a museum and worth an estimated $2.5 billion dollars.
What is the Palace at Versailles?
He was the king of Prussia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
Who was king Frederick II aka Frederick the Great?
This is using western Europe as a model for change.
This is a government where laws limited the ruler's power. The English Bill of Rights was a direct result of this government.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
He was the Dutch artist who painted The Night Watch and was the greatest Dutch artist of the time period.
Who was Rembrandt?
This occurred in 1701 when many European countries to prevent Spain and France to be ran by the same family dynasty.
What was the War of the Spanish Succession?
This war was fought in Europe, India, and North America and did not change the territorial situation in Europe, however there were territorial changes in North America and India.
What was the Seven Years' War?
Russians practiced this religion rather than Catholicism or Protestantism.
This is a law that gave every prisoner the right to obtain a writ or document ordering that the prisoner be brought before a judge to specify the charges against the prisoner.
what is habeas corpus