French and Central European Absolutism
Because of Louis XIV’s extravagance and spending the French _________________ began to fail.
Economy
During the English Civil War, what were supporters of King Charles I called?
Royalists
The English Bill of Rights would eventually inspire what U.S. Document?
U.S. Bill of Rights
What invention from the Scientific Revolution revolutionized our understanding of biology.
Microscope
An era of intellectual thought that emphasized reason and individualism over tradition. It presented new political and philosophical ideas that contradicted the era of absolutism.
The Enlightenment
What was France financing that cost so much money?
Wars
During the English Civil War, what were supporters of Parliament called?
Roundheads
What is the name of the conflict between Charles I of England & Parliament?
English Civil War
This though process and method revolutionized how humans thought of the world.
Scientific Method
What country was eventually founded using Enlightenment ideas?
The United States
What did the Holy Roman Emperor try to disallow in the H.R.E.?
Protestantism
Why was the Glorious Revolution called the Glorious Revolution?
There was no bloodshed
Daily Double:
What was the name of the Spanish King that was the most inbred of the Hapsburgs.
What did the Church try to make the many scientists of the Scientific Revolution do?
Recant
What began to improve faster as a result of capitalism?
Technology
What family controlled Central Europe since 1450’s?
The Hapsburgs
After Cromwell’s government collapsed, Parliament voted to bring back the Monarchy. What is this event known as?
The Restoration
The political idea that because Kings get their power from God, they must not be challenged.
Divine Right of Kings
What institution in Europe lost a significant amount of influence due to their reaction to the Scientific Revolution?
The Catholic Church
Though Descartes was trying to promote God, secularism turned his famous phrase’s meaning into I am my own…
god
What did the Hapsburgs royal family do to try to keep power within their family?
They Intermarried
Who was the leader of the Roundheads, and what kind of rule did he have after winning the English Civil War?
Oliver Cromwell
What book defended the need for an all-powerful monarch?
Leviathan
Who was one of the first astronomers to develop the Heliocentric Theory
Copernicus
The group of French Enlightenment Thinkers were referred to as the….
The Philosophes