France & Spain
These were the royal officials sent out by Cardinal Richelieu under the reign of Louis XIII, used to execute the orders of the central government.
Who are the intendants?
This monarch was Elizabeth's cousin, who ascended to the English throne after her death because she had no heir, ending the Tudor line of English monarchs and beginning the Stuart line.
Who was King James I or King James VI of Scotland?
This is the term to describe Prussian nobles.
What is junkers?
Russia fought in The Great Northern War against this country...
What is Sweden?
This city is credited with bringing Baroque art to the world.
What is Rome?
It was the name for the revolt of the nobles against Anne of Austria, mother to Louis XIV, when she and Cardinal Mazarin tried to assert dominance over the French government.
What is the Fronde?
Who took the throne of England after the Glorious Revolution of 1688?
Who are William and Mary?
This city in Austria was the site where the Ottoman Turks were repelled by a coalition of European forces in 1683, in their quest to expand the territory of the Ottoman Empire further into Europe.
What is Vienna?
This is the term used to describe Russian nobles
What are the boyars?
This name is used to describe Scottish Calvinists.
What are Presbyterians?
This was the "edict" that provided for the destruction of the Huguenot churches and the closing of Protestant schools in Louis XIV's France.
What is the Edict of Fontainebleau?
This financial institution became the greatest source of investing capital (money) in northern Europe during the seventeenth century.
What is the Exchange Bank of Amsterdam?
This dynasty, owners of western Germany, acquired the duchy of Prussia, leading to the coalition of Prussian states after 1609.
Who are the Hohenzollern?
Who was the first ruler to take the title tsar?
Who is Ivan IV (the terrible)?
This artist is credited with being the "finest product" of the golden age of Dutch painting, refusing to follow other contemporaries and becoming the greatest Protestant painter of the seventeenth century.
Who was Rembrandt?
This was the fourth and final war for France under Louis XIV, ultimately leading to France's defeat and England's win when territories such as Gibraltar, Newfoundland and other North American territories were handed over to the English.
What is the War of Spanish Succession?
This Dutch invention paved the way for the Dutch to become important "carriers" for products to other countries.
What is the fluyt?
This "commission" was formed by William Frederick the Great Elector to oversee the training and growth of the army and collect taxes for it.
What is the General War Commissariat?
This "peace" was signed in 1721, giving Russia the states of Estonia, Livonia and Karelia, reducing Sweden to a second rate power and allowing Peter to build his new city, St. Petersburg.
What is the Peace of Nystadt?
Known as a "complete man of the theater," a universal genius and a master of the English language, this man wrote classics such as Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This is the name of the advisor to Philip IV of Spain, whose efforts to curtail the power of the Catholic Church and the landed aristocracy led to a weakening of the Spanish throne and eventually its downfall at the Battle of Rocroi in 1643.
Who is Gaspar de Guzman?
These were the names for the two political groups that either supported the king, James II, or the installment of a Protestant king to the English throne prior to the Glorious Revolution.
Who are the Whigs and the Tories?
This treaty in 1699, after the defeat of the Ottomans, allowed Austria to take control of various southeastern European territories, thus establishing an Austrian Empire.
What is the Treaty of Karlowitz?
Peter the Great created this governing body that essentially put the Orthodox Church under his secular authority.
What is the Holy Synod?
This Swedish monarch was awarded the Polish-Lithuanian throne in 1572, dreaming of combining Sweden, Finland, and Russia together to form a vast Polish empire, failing to achieve his goal and dooming the empire to becoming a weak, decentralized state.
Who is Sigismund III?