Rulers
The Sun King, who ruled from 1643-1715 in France and espoused a theory of divine right, acting as a virtual dictator. He combined the lawmaking and the justice system in his own person.
Louis XIV
A tomb for the wife of Sha Jahan
Taj Mahal
The selling of church offices
Simony
1555. Allowed each German state to choose whether its ruler would be Catholic or Lutheran.
Peace of Augsburg
Royal Officials-bureaucratic elites sent out to the provinces of France to execute the orders of the central government
Intendants
Minister of the French King Louis XIII and moved for greater centralization of the government and development of the system of intendants.
Cardinal Richelieu
Overthrew the Yuan dynasty in 1368 and stabalized the East Asian region for nearly 300 years
Ming
He broke with the Catholic Church around 1530 and in 1536 authored "The Institutes of the Christian Religion" and helped reform the religious community in Geneva Switzerland.
John Calvin
The culmination of the Thirty Years' War which allowed each area of the Holy Roman Empire to select one of three options: Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, or Calvinism
Peace of Westphalia
Daimyos
He confiscated the lands of his boyar opponents and forced them and their families to move to Moscow. He also established paramilitary force loyal to him called the oprichnina.
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)
In 1644 this powerful group of people from Northern China seized power and established the Qing Dynasty.
Manchu
Granted a person absolution from the punishments for sin.
Indulgences
The Woman that King Henry VIII married after his break with the Roman Catholic Church.
Anne Boleyn
The Noble Landowning class in Russia who stood at the top of the social pyramid.
Boyars
The most capable of the Mughal rulers who ruled from 1556 to 1605 and defeated Hindu armies and extended his empire southward and westward.
Akbar
Set about reorganizing the governance of Japan in order to centralize control. Daimyo were required to maintain residences both in their home terrritory and also in the capital with his family there essentailly as hostages which kept the Daimyo under the control of the Shogunate, reducing them to landlords rather than independent leaders.
Tokugawa Shogunate
Those predestined to go to heaven
Elect
An early Scientific Method which insisted upon the collection of data to back up a hypothesis.
Empiricism
Officials selected by the landed gentry to maintain peace in the countries of England, even setling some legal matters, and to carry out the monarch's laws.
Justices of the Peace
Was known as the Defender of the Orthodoxy. He consolidated power by defeating his half-sister Sophia and her supporters, a boyar-led elite military corps called the Streltsy and reorganized the Russian government by creating provinces.
Peter I (Peter the Great)
The Chinese emperor ruled from 1661 to 1722 as one of CHina's longest reigning emperors and presided ovver a period of stability and expansion during the Qing Dynasty.
Kangxi
Corrected some of hte worst of hte Church's abuses and concentrated on reaffirming the rituals such as marriage and other sacraments improving the education of the priests.
Council of Trent
Shah
Paid government officials of the Mughal empire who were in charge of specific duties, such as taxation, construction and the water supply.
Zamindars