He became king of Spain in 1556 after his father Charles V split up the Hapsburg lands.
Who was Philip II?
100
He founded the Church of England and was married six times in his pursuit of a male heir.
Who was Henry VIII?
100
He was the king of France that issued the Edict of Nantes in 1598 to reassure Huguenots, French Protestants, and was assassinated in 1610.
Who was Henry IV?
100
This was a result of the Austrian Hapsburgs trying to start an absolute monarchy in central Europe, but ended up dividing the Holy Roman Empire into over 300 states.
What was the Thirty Years’ War?
100
He ruled from 1533 to 1584, killed his own son, and took all land from the boyars (nobles).
Who was Ivan IV, Ivan the Terrible, or Ivan the Awesome?
200
This city became the capital of Spain in the 1500’s.
What is Madrid?
200
He became the first Tudor monarch in England after the Wars of the Roses.
Who was Henry the VII?
200
They were agents of the Crown that took control of local government in France during the reign on Cardinal Richelieu.
Who were intendants?
200
Emperor Charles VI persuaded other European monarchs to accept this so that his daughter Maria Theresa could inherit the Austrian throne.
What was the pragmatic sanction?
200
He traveled through the rest of Europe and brought back many European ideas to Russia.
Who was Peter the Great or Peter I?
300
This is a sudden increase in cost that can be caused by government spending funded by foreign loans and an increase in gold and silver.
What is inflation?
300
She married Philip II of Spain and became very unpopular when she burned 300 Protestants at the stake.
Who was Mary I?
300
He became king at the age of 5 and wanted an absolute monarchy (where the king has all the power.)
Who was Louis XIV?
300
He freed Junkers (nobles) from taxes and made them the only landowners so that he could raise taxes to pay for his standing army.
Who was the Great Elector Frederick William?
300
They were peasant laborers bound to the land in Russia that carried most of the tax burden.
Who were the serfs?
400
The prosecution of religious minorities in Spanish lands caused this group of people in Northern Europe to declare independence with the help of the English.
Who were the Dutch?
400
He became the king of England and Scotland after Elizabeth I’s death in 1603.
Who was James I?
400
The repeal of this document by Louis XIV took away Huguenot rights and caused around 200,000 of them to emigrate from France.
What is the Edict of Nantes?
400
He ruled form 1713 to 1740 and was able to centralize the Prussian government.
Who was Frederick William I? (Different than The Great Elector Frederick William.)
400
It became Russia’s new capital during the reign of Peter I and was known as the “window to the West.”
What is St. Petersburg?
500
This event in May of 1586 caused the beginning of the end of Spain’s dominance on the seas.
What was the defeat of the Spanish Armada? (An Armada is a fleet of warships.)
500
During Elizabeth I reign of England these where the middle class (lesser nobles, merchants, lawyers, and clergy) and the lower class (farmers with a little land and laborers).
Who were Gentry and yeomen?
500
Much of Europe did not want him to inherit the Spanish throw in 1700, because it could unite France and Spain under one ruler.
Who was Louis XIV’s grandson Philip of Anjou or King Philip V of Spain?
500
He captured the Austrian Province of Silesia and started the War of the Austrian Succession.
Who was Frederic II, or Frederic the Great?
500
She was a Russian Empress that ruled from 1762-1796 and had considered freeing Russia’s serfs until they started a revolt.