Significant terms
A palace built for Louis XIV southwest of Paris. It was built around a château belonging to Louis XIII, which was transformed by additions in the grand French classical style.
What is Versailles?
English poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet and considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time.
Who is William Shakespeare?
A political doctrine in defense of monarchical absolutism, which asserted that kings derived their authority from God and could not therefore be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority such as a parliament.
What is Divine Right of Kings?
The famous hippodrome in London where many of the great plays of William Shakespeare were first performed.
What is the Globe Theatre?
English Protestants who believed that the Church of England needed further reform and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
What is a Puritan?
The deposition King James II, a Roman Catholic who had asserted royal rights over the rights of Parliament.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
English soldier and statesman, who led parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars and was lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1653–58) during the republican Commonwealth.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
The political doctrine and practice of unlimited centralized authority and universal sovereignty, as vested especially in a monarch or dictator.
What is absolutism?
A style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it.
What is mannerism?
Supporters of Parliament in the English Civil War.
What is a Roundhead?
An act signed into law in 1689 by William III and Mary II, who became co-rulers in England after the overthrow of King James II. The proposal outlined specific constitutional and civil rights and ultimately gave Parliament power over the monarchy.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
King of France (1643–1715) who ruled his country, principally from his great palace at Versailles, during one of its most brilliant periods and who remains the symbol of absolute monarchy of the classical age.
Who is Louis XIV?
Supporters of Charles I in the English Civil War.
What is Cavaliers?
A novel that is considered by literary historians to be one of the most important books of all time, and it is often cited as the first modern novel.
What is Don Quixote?
A European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily.
What is the Bourbon dynasty?
It marked the return of Charles II as king (1660–85) following the period of Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth. The bishops were restored to Parliament, which established a strict Anglican orthodoxy. The period, which also included the reign of James II (1685–88), was marked by an expansion in colonial trade, the Anglo-Dutch Wars, and a revival of drama and literature.
What is the 17th century Restoration?
Czar of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government; he extended his territories in the Baltic and founded St. Petersburg.
Who is Peter the Great?
What is commonwealth?
Principles that are fundamental to human being existence. They are universally accepted and applied and can’t be contradicted by human law.
What are natural rights?
The title used by Russian emperors.
What is czar?
A style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail. In architecture the period is exemplified by the palace of Versailles and by the work of Bernini in Italy.
What is Baroque art?
His reign saw the completion of the construction of a centrally administered Russian state and the creation of an empire that included non-Slav states. He engaged in prolonged and largely unsuccessful wars against Sweden and Poland, and, in seeking to impose military discipline and a centralized administration, he instituted a reign of terror against the hereditary nobility.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
French Protestants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who were frequently persecuted by the government and by the Roman Catholic Church.
What is Huguenots?
A major statement of political philosophy that rejects the idea of the divine right of kings, supports the idea of natural rights (especially of property), and argues for a limited constitutional government which would protect individual rights.
What is the Two Treatises of Government?
A Russian noble.
What is a Boyar?