AP Euro Test II

Dutch Golden Age

100

Chartered in 1602, this enterprise helped build the Dutch global empire. 

Dutch East India Company 

200

This Dutch chief magistrate position held varying degrees of authority throughout the early modern period. 

Stadtholder 

300

Thanks to a ready supply of grain from East/Central Europe and a flourishing colonial empire, the Dutch pivoted to producing these in the seventeenth century.

Dairy products, beef, tulip bulbs 

400

Dutch Golden Age art tended to celebrate 

Dutch economic prosperity 

500

Tariffs on this crucial raw material contributed to the decline of Dutch economic dominance in Western Europe. 

Textiles 

English Civil War

100

A political theory that posits the monarch is not accountable to human authorities. 

divine right of kings

200

The Stuart monarchs admired which continental ruler?

Louis XIV 

300

James I hesitated to rush English troops to aid protestants in this seventeenth-century war. 

30 Years' War 

400

Name two ramifications of the Glorious Revolution (1688) 

Monarchs now subject to law; rule with Parliamentary consent; all Protestant worship permitted

500

An Anglo-French alliance against the Dutch signed by Louis XIV and Charles II.

The Treaty of Dover (1670) 

Louis XIV

100

Regional judicial bodies that Louis XIV worked alongside instead of against. 

Parlements 

200

A noble rebellion that helped inform Louis XIV's brand of absolutism.

The Fronde 

300

Revoked by Louis XIV in 1685. 

Edict of Nantes 

400

A seventeenth-century Roman Catholic religious movement that opposed the political influence of the Jesuits; believed in predestination. 

Jansenists 

500

Jean Baptiste Colbert championed 

French mercantilism 

East/Central Europe

100

The Pragmatic Sanction (1713) paved the way for the ascension of this Austrian monarch.

Maria Theresa 

200

Guards of the Moscow garrison that meddled in dynastic politics during the seventeenth century. 

Streltsy 

300

Rule that allowed any single member of the Sejm to nullify legislation. 

Liberum veto

400

A system that sought to draw the Russian nobility (boyars) into state service; meritocratic 

Table of Ranks 

500

Prussian landowning aristocracy that Frederick William I unified with the monarchy into a single political entity. 

Junkers

The Atlantic Economy

100

Name one difference between English and Spanish colonization. 

English focused on trade; English colonization proceeded at a more unpredictable pace and was more decentralized (est. a nascent sense of liberty/separateness). 

200

The rise of the Atlantic economy weakened this northern European maritime trade network. 

Hanseatic League 

300

A written order that provided credit. 

Bills of exchange 

400

Spanish regional bodies that limited monarchical authority. 

Cortes 

500

Acts that allowed the gentry to divide common lands and pasture areas; Thomas More against. 

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