Textbook Terror
The meaning of absolutism
What is absolute power of a nation with a singular ruler?
These statesmen established the French absolutist monarchy
Who are Richelieu and Mazarin?
This is what Enlightenment philosophers sought to build
What is a society based on reason?
This was the main foreign policy goal of Napoleon III
What is overturning the Vienna system?
This lasting issue was resolved in the Austro-Prussian War
What is the issue of who would dominate Germany?
Plato's theory of the form
What is the teaching that reality is made of abstract concepts rather than physical objects?
The is what Poland ceded to Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo
This is how Frederick William I prepared the way for Prussia's rise as a great power
What is a professional army?
This was the statesman who guided Italian Unification
Who is Camillo di Cavour
This was what the Diplomatic Revolution overturned
What are previous European alliances?
Why men form governments, according to John Locke
What is to protect our natural rights and liberties under a social contract
This event made parliament supreme in the English government
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This was the Prussian king who challenged Austrian dominance in Germany
Who is Frederick II?
These factors led to Napoleon's defeat
What are the British blockade, occupation of Spain, and the invasion of Russia?
This was the primary objective of the Scottish Jacobites
What is seeing the Stuarts return from exiles and reclaim their kingdoms?
What is providing order to the universe?
This was the primary foreign policy goal of Peter the Great
What is gaining access to the sea?
This is what Adam Smith believed the proper role of the government should be in the economy
What is an economy without government involvement?
These are the main goals of the Congress of Vienna
This was the Continental System
What is a Europe-wide embargo on British trade?
Galileo was convicted by the Inquisition for this
What is heresy for supporting the Copernican idea that the the earth revolves around the sun?
These are the rights John Locke says government is formed to protect
What are health, life, liberty, and property?
These are the principles of traditional British foreign policy
What are splendid isolation, commerce, empire, naval power, and Europe's power balance?
These are the goals of 19th century liberalism
What are social and political equality, individual liberties, and participating in government?
This is what Montesquieu believed that liberty is best preserved by