Vocab
An abnormal increase in currency resulting in sharp price rises.
Inflation
A fleet of warships organized to carry out a mission.
Armada
First Tudor monarch of England
Henry VII
During who's reign saw the Poor Laws enacted, economic affluence, and the Statute of Apprentices; not known for excessive court spending.
Elizabeth I
Thirty Years' War Cause
Czech Protestant rebellion against Ferdinand.
The political idea that monarchs receive their power directly from God and are responsible only to God
Divine Right
Peasant laborers bound to the land.
Serfs
Adviser to Louis XIII; strengthened the monarchy.
Cardinal Richelieu
Scotland and Ireland aligned with England during Elizabeth I’s reign. This was called the
English Alliances
Thirty Years' War Conclusion
Peace of Westphalia.
A system in which nations maintain equal power to preserve peace and order.
Balance of Power
Lesser nobles, merchants, lawyers, and clergy.
Gentry
Philip II’s Capital
Madrid.
Who was executed for being accused of plotting with foreign Catholics.
Mary Queen of Scots
Cardinal Richelieu’s Goal was to
build an absolute French monarchy.
A non-noble, special agent of the Crown.
Intendant
Farmers with small landholdings.
Yeomen
Spanish Jews who converted to Christianity.
Marranos
Built the most feared and efficient army in Europe.
Frederick William I
The Absolutist Rule Justification is based on
The theory of divine right
A royal decree having the force of law.
Pragmatic Sanction
Russian nobles.
Boyars
Prussian ruling family, rivals of the Hapsburgs.
Hohenzollerns
Promoting Hapsburg unity by eliminating trade barriers was who's strategy?
Maria Theresa’s
Silesia
Territory seized by Prussia from Austria, leading to war.