Vocab
The Cottage Industry
What are people employed by merchants, working from home making finished products.
Embodied the concept of Absolutism best. Built the Palace of Versailles and had the largest standing army.
Louis XIV of France
War between the monarchy and Parliament as a result of the Stuart Monarchy's attempt to make England an absolute monarchy
What was the English Civil War
Where the Agricultural Revolution began
A theory in which the ruler has absolute power in the name of God.
Divine Right
What technology enabled a single worker to operate more than 1,000 spindles at a time.
Spinning Mule
Joseph-Marie Jacquard
who invented a machine to create patterned silk textile
What did the Enclosure Movement allow for?
What is the sale of public lands.
States that were located in what is now known as the modern Czech Republic.
What were the Bohemian States?
The Dutch republic had a rivalry with this nation.
What is Britain?
The term for a polish legislature?
What is a Sejm
Whose accession to the throne allowed for the Glorious Revolution?
Who are William III and Mary II?
What was the Commercial Revolution?
A period of unprecedented expansion of commerce and trade.
The Dutch Republic
What was formed during the Eighty Years' War
The initials for the Dutch East India Company.
What is the VOC?
What is the definition of 'balance of power'?
A system in which no single empire, Kingdom, or country would dominate, either on the continent or in the New World.
Formulated the wave theory of light and discovered the shape of Saturn's rings.
What is Christiaan Huygens
Years of politics upheaval in England between Stuart Monarchy's. Groups like PArliamentarians and Royalists fought in order to reform England's government as absolute.
English Civil War
The place the Ottomans attacked in 1683.
What is Vienna?
These series of uprisings against the French monarchy tried to check the power of the French Royal Government.
What is the Fronde?
Imposed tax on imports making items and goods from other countries expensive.
External Tariffs
The one who led the Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War and would become the Lord protector of the English Republic
Oliver Cromwell
The Hadsburgs, Holy Roman Empire, and the Polish-Lithuanian Common Wealth United to defeat against which prevailing empire in 1683?
What was the Ottoman Empire?
The country Louis XIV was king of.
What is France
This caused the downfall of Olivares.
What is the Catalan Revolt?