Spain
By the end of his reign, Spain had become the most populous empire in the world.
Who is King Phillip II?
The Peace of Westphalia officially ended this conflict.
What is the 30-Years War?
They were Protestants in Catholic France
Who were the Huguenots?
He laid the foundation for a Prussian state.
Who is Frederick William the Great Elector?
A fleet of warships (or a Toyota SUV)
What is an armada?
The landform that includes Portugal, Spain and a bit of France.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
What were Roundheads?
Some might say he was a little off in the head when this absolute monarch named himself the Sun King and wore golden armour to perform on stage. But no one can deny the glory of his new home in Versailles.
Who was King Louis XIV?
Who is Peter the Great?
The belief that the power of the king comes directly from God
What is the divine right of kings?
When King Phillip II married the Mary Tudor two days after they met, the official religion of England became this, a very unpopular move amongst the people of her country.
What is Catholic?
He defeated the king of England and set up a military dictatorship.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
This ended the French Wars of Religion
What is the Edict of Nantes?
This political philosopher believed that humans were guided by basic survival instincts.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
What is Absolutism?
The career of Miguel de Cervantes.
What is writing?
His keen insight into human nature gave this author a reputation as a genius.
Who is William Shakespeare?
After the 30-Years War, France fought these two governments in order to become the political leaders of Europe.
What are Spain and the Holy Roman Empire?
Neither sacred nor Italian, this was a loose confederation of hundreds of semi-autonomous Germanic states, kingdoms, and cities, rather than a unified nation-state, ruled by an elected emperor.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
A style of art that rejected the Renaissance ideals of balance and proportion
The family dynasty of kings Charles V and Phillip II.
Who were the Hapsburgs?
This laid the groundwork for the constitutional monarchy in England.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
The other major religion besides Catholicism strongly supported in Europe. Not the general "Protestantism" but a specific denomination.
What is Calvanism?
This political philosopher's arguments supported demands for a constitutional government, not the absolute monarchy touted by Mr. Hobbes.
Who was John Locke?
Elaborate ornamentation characterized this architectural style