The Enlightenment
The chief aim of the Enlightenment period was to?
Question the current state of life/society.
While Louis XIV was a boy, who ruled France?
Cardinal Mazarin
The English Civil War was between what two groups?
The King and Parliament
What title did Napoleon give himself?
Emperor
Who was the first Russian ruler to name himself Tsar?
Ivan the Terrible
Enlightenment thinking also gave birth to what particular revolution?
The Scientific Revolution
As a means of displaying his absolute power Louis XIV built?
The Palace of Versailles
King Charles I agreed to the Petition of Right, which required him to do what?
Ask Parliament's permission to raise taxes
Of the 600,000 men in Napoleon's army, how many were fit for service when they returned from Russia?
10,000
Who did Peter the Great make the boyar act like?
Western Europeans
What did Voltaire mean when he said, "Cultivate your garden"?
To focus your life on honesty and inquiry.
Cardinal Richelieu limited the power of Huguenot cities by not allowing them to do what?
Build city walls
Charles the First practiced what religion?
What was the significance of the defeat of Napoleon's navy in Egypt?
It showed that the navy way much weaker than the army.
The Boyar ruled what part of Russia?
Zemshchina
John Locke believed that people are born______ and Thomas Hobbes believed that people are born _______.
Good, Sinful
As absolute monarch, Louis XIV made one grave mistake which eventually led to the bloody overthrow of the monarchy.
He taxed the people to support his wars
Why were Presbyterians in Scotland so mad with Charles I?
He forced his Anglican Church practices on them.
How did Napoleon control the governments he conquered?
The Tsar ruled what part of Russia?
Oprichnina
When the earthquake in Portugal destroyed a bunch of churches but did not destroy brothels, what did this make people begin to question?
Henry of Navarre was a __________ who converted to a _________.
Protestant, Catholic
As a response to the oppressive nature of absolute rule, Parliament raised an army and fought the King. Who led the army and eventually took military control of the country?
Oliver Cromwell
What did Napoleon's Continental system do to the movement of goods?
Goods were forced to be moved over land rather than by sea.
What led to Ivan the Terrible becoming so terrible?
The death of his wife.