Vocab
This is the French name for Protestants, especially those with strong Calvinist leanings.
Who are the Huguenots?
This is the number of phases in the Thirty Years War.
What is four phases?
This sold for 1,000 pounds of cheese, four oxen, eight pigs, twelve sheep, a bed, and a suit of clothes.
What is a tulip?
This person replaces Maximilian I as commander of the HRE forces during the Thirty Years War. He is later assassinated by the HRE.
Who is Wallenstein?
This peace in 1555 was a temporary respite from religious conflict in the HRE.
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
This word is the term for a ruler who ONLY cares about political outcomes.
This effectively ends the Thirty Years War and redraws most of Europe's borders.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This Dutch strategy helped them to defeat the invading Spanish army.
What is flooding their own country? / What is blowing up their own dikes?
This person led the Dutch resistance and sought help from the Sea Beggars.
Who is William of Orange?
In 1629 this Edict by the HRE declared that all Protestant controlled lands should be returned to Catholic control.
What is the Edict of Restitution?
Little more than a group of Pirates, this group was banned from taking up port in England, but came to the rescue of the Dutch in their time of need.
Who are "The Sea Beggars"?
This is the estimated number of casualties from the 30 Years War.
What is 4.5 to 8 million?
As king of France, Henry IV makes this promise to his subjects, a promise of prosperity.
What is "A chicken in every pot"?
This person, King of Sweden and also a military genius, fought in the third phase of the Thirty Years War.
Who is Gustavus Adolphus?
This Edict, promulgated in 1598, declared Catholicism as the official religion of France.
What is the Edict of Nantes?
This word means the acceptance of people who have differing views/beliefs than you hold.
What is Tolerance?
This battle resulted in the defeat of Wallenstein's Army and the death of Gustavo Adolphus.
What is the Battle of Lutzen?
A type of economy, pioneered by the Dutch, revolving primarily around selling more goods than you buy and enforced primarily through Tariffs.
What is Mercantilism?
This French king was assassinated by an angry catholic monk in 1589.
Who is Henry III?
In 1587 Elizabeth I does this in retribution for a supposed assassination plot against her.
What is executes Mary Queen of Scots?
This word refers to a type of economy wherein people invest in others in order to create more wealth through the expansion of businesses and properties.
What is Capitalism?
Due to this man's, a French cardinal and advisor to Louis XIII, advice France enters the 30 Years War by mobilizing troops.
Who is Cardinal Richelieu?
These two groups held Protestant sympathies in France before the French Civil wars for political reasons.
This person was Charles IX's closest advisor. At least until the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre where his body was dragged through the streets, burned, drowned and hung.
Who is Coligny?
This event involved French Protestants destroying churches, defiling cemeteries, and destroying Catholic property.
What is the Huguenot Iconoclasm?