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a system in which a ruler holds total power.
Abolitionism
He was the Sun King, a model of absolute monarchy in France
King Louis XIV
Spanish playwright who wrote hundreds to thousands of plays for popular audiences during the Golden Age.
Lope de Vega
England’s Elizabethan literature featured playwright, a master of human psychology.
William Shakespeare
kings believed in and claimed their power came from God.
Divine Right
French Protestant
Huguenots
Most Catholic King who fought against Protestantism
King Philip II
English monarch executed
Charles I
Style of art and music that emphasized heightened emotion, dramatic movement, and religious intensity.
Baroque
Act granting Puritans / Protestant public worship
Toleration Act (1689)
Supporters of the king were called
Cavaliers
strengthened England as a Protestant nation and defeated the Spanish Armada
Queen Elizabeth I
believed people needed an absolute ruler to maintain order
Hobbes
Art style developed during religious conflicts that used elongated, exaggerated figures to express instability and tension.
Mannerism
Limited the king’s ability to tax, imprison citizens, and impose martial law
Petition of Right (1628)
supporters of Parliament were called?
Roundheads
Russian czar, modernized the army, westernized society, and built St. Petersburg
Peter the Great
This person strengthened the monarchy under Louis XIII by limiting Huguenot power - setting up Louis XIV for absolution
Cardinal Richelieu
Created Spain’s Golden Age novel Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
granted religious rights to Huguenots in France
Edict of Nantes
Bloodless overthrow of James II
The Glorious Revolution
The leader New Model Army that defeated the royalists during the English Civil War.
Oliver Cromwell
Louis XIV’s finance minister, Colbert, implemented mercantilist policies to increase wealth
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
A German composer in England, wrote the famous oratorio Messiah.
George Frideric Handel
Ended the Thirty Years’ War
Peace of Westphalia (1648)