Dutch Golden Age
Dutch East India Company
A political theory that posits the monarch is not accountable to human authorities.
divine right of kings
Regional judicial bodies that Louis XIV worked alongside instead of against.
Parlements
The Pragmatic Sanction (1713) paved the way for the ascension of this Austrian monarch.
Maria Theresa
Name one difference between English and Spanish colonization.
English focused on trade; English colonization proceeded at a more unpredictable pace and was more decentralized (est. a nascent sense of liberty/separateness).
This Dutch chief magistrate position held varying degrees of authority throughout the early modern period.
Stadtholder
The Stuart monarchs admired which continental ruler?
A noble rebellion that helped inform Louis XIV's brand of absolutism.
The Fronde
Guards of the Moscow garrison that meddled in dynastic politics during the seventeenth century.
Streltsy
The rise of the Atlantic economy weakened this northern European maritime trade network.
Hanseatic League
Thanks to a ready supply of grain from East/Central Europe and a flourishing colonial empire, the Dutch pivoted to producing these in the seventeenth century.
Dairy products, beef, tulip bulbs
James I hesitated to rush English troops to aid protestants in this seventeenth-century war.
Revoked by Louis XIV in 1685.
Edict of Nantes
Rule that allowed any single member of the Sejm to nullify legislation.
A written order that provided credit.
Bills of exchange
Dutch Golden Age art tended to celebrate
Dutch economic prosperity
Monarchs now subject to law; rule with Parliamentary consent; all Protestant worship permitted
A seventeenth-century Roman Catholic religious movement that opposed the political influence of the Jesuits; believed in predestination.
Jansenists
A system that sought to draw the Russian nobility (boyars) into state service; meritocratic
Table of Ranks
Cortes
Tariffs on this crucial raw material contributed to the decline of Dutch economic dominance in Western Europe.
Textiles
An Anglo-French alliance against the Dutch signed by Louis XIV and Charles II.
The Treaty of Dover (1670)
Jean Baptiste Colbert championed
French mercantilism
Prussian landowning aristocracy that Frederick William I unified with the monarchy into a single political entity.
Junkers
Acts that allowed the gentry to divide common lands and pasture areas; Thomas More against.
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