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What is divine right?
God created the Monarchy and the Monarchs were Gods representative on earth.
100
What year did Philip II take power?
1580
100
Who inherited Spain, the Spanish Netherlands, and the American colonies?
Philip II
100
Who supplied Spain with 339,000 pounds of gold?
American mines.
100
What war was fought between royalist supporters and puritan supporters?
English civil war.
200
What is skepticism?
The idea that nothing could be known for certain.
200
What year did king Henry II die?
1559
200
Who was Louis XIV minister of finance?
jean baptiste colbert.
200
Who did the pop call on to take up arms against the mounting power of the ottoman empire?
Catholic princes.
200
During the glorious revelution which English King was over thrown?
King JamesII
300
What were intendants jobs?
to collect taxes and administer justice.
300
What year was the protestant union formed?
1608
300
Who inherited the Austrian throne and the later succeeded their father?
Maria Theresa
300
What religion did western Europeans mostly veiw?
Catholic, or protestants.
300
What war was from 1756-1763?
seven years war.
400
What were boyars?
Russia's landowning nobles.
400
What year did Ivan IV come to the thrown?
1533
400
What Russian ruler took the thrown when he was 3yrs old?
Ivan the terrible.
400
Who was the greatest Dutch artist?
Rembrandt van Rijn
400
What war was fought between many powerful European families that was over religion territory?
Thirty years war.
500
What did Habeas corpus guarantee to prisoners?
Every prisoner had the right to be brought before the judge to specify the charges against the prisoner.
500
In what year did England and Scottland become united?
1707
500
Who was the puritans general?
Oliver Cromwell.
500
Which landowners wanted serfs to stay on the land and produce large harvest?
Russian landowners.
500
What war followed many european nations that tryed to prevent the French and the spanish from uniting?
War of Spanish succession.