France
The most powerful monarch in French History
Louis XIV
The Spanish monarch who persecuted Protestants and viewed himself as a defender of Catholicism
Phillip II
The English queen who ruled for 45 years and never married
Elizabeth I
The monarch who attempted to 'westernize' Russia
Peter the Great
The doctrine that stated that God created monarchy and the monarch acted as God's representative on earth
Divine Right
The palace built by Louis XIV
Palace at Versailles
The monastary and palace built by Phillip II
The Escorial
Act that declared Elizabeth the head of England’s church and state
Act of Supremacy
The Russian monarch who ruled during the 'bad period'
Ivan the Terrible
The unseen force that pressures states to go to war with each other in order to protect themselves
The Security Dilemma
Edict of Nantes
The novel about a poor Spanish noble who travels around on a donkey chasing windmills.
Don Quixote
Act that created the Church of England under Elizabeth I
Act of Uniformity
Russia's landowning nobles
Boyars
The reversal of longstanding alliances throughout Europe
The Diplomatic Revolution
The personal bureaucracy of Louis XIV
The Intendants
The company created by the Dutch with a monopoly on trade in their far eastern colonies.
The Dutch East India Company
Name three ways Elizabeth I angered Phillip II
She executed Mary
She rejected his marriage proposal
She did not prosecute Protestantism
She encouraged piracy against him
She supported the Dutch revolt
The type of port that Peter the Great thought Russia needed
Warm water port
Constantly shifting alliances between the major European powers
The Stately Quadrille
Name three ways Louis XIV ruled absolutely
Decreased the power of the nobles
Fought foreign wars
Suppressed Protestant religions
Built the Palace at Versailles
Created the intendants
Name three ways Phillip II ruled absolutely
Fought foreign wars (Netherlands/Spain)
Suppressed Protestant religions
Built the Escorial
Name three ways Elizabeth I ruled absolutely
Created the Church of England (Act of Uniformity)
Made herself the head of the state and the Church (The Act of Supremacy)
Executed her Sister
Fought foreign wars (the Counter-Armada)
Name three ways Peter the Great ruled absolutely
Built Saint Petersburg (using slave labor)
Modernized the army
Reduced the power of the Church
Reduced the power of landowners
The wars that caused dramatic shifts in the conventional European alliance system
The Thirty Years War
The War of Austrian Succession
The Seven Years War