Absolute Monarchs

According to the English Bill of Rights, a ruler could not do any of the following

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rule with limited powers

The bloodless overthrow of

King James II was called the:

Glorious Revolution

The______supported James as the next king of England.

Tories

The_______ opposed Charles Il's brother James as the next king of England.

Whigs

_______gave every prisoner the right to obtain a writ, a document ordering the prisoner be brought before a judge to specify the charges against the prisoner.

Habeus Corpus

The reign of Charles Il was known as the:

Restoration

Cromwell favored religious toleration for all Christians

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Catholics

______led the Puritans to a victory in the English Civil War by would eventually become a military dictator.

Oliver Cromwell

The execution of King Charles I was revolutionary because:

never before had a reigning monarch faced public trial and execution|

The _____was fought between the supporters and the opponents of King Charles I.

English Civil War

The major idea set forth by the Petition of Rights was that:

law was higher than the king

Which of the following was NOT one of the four points of the Petition of Rights?

King would not dissolve Parliament

Because Queen Elizabeth I had no children, her cousin _____became the king of England after Elizabeth.

James Stuart

Peter the Great moved Russia's capital to the new city of:

St. Petersburg

Which of the following was NOT one of the ways Peter the Great westernized Russia?

Downplayed the role of education

Peter's goal of using western Europe as a model for change was called:

Westernization

________was one of Russia's greatest reformers.

Peter the Great

The Russian _______dynasty would last for a little over 300 years.

Romanov

______was the first czar of Russia.

Ivan IV

Russia's landowning nobles were known as:

Boyars

The _______was a war between Austria and Prussia and their allies in Europe.

Seven years war

_______was the Hohenzollern ruler of Prussia that tried to seize part of Austria.

Frederick the great

_______became the female Hapsburg ruler of Austria.

Maria Theresa

______was the most important result of the Thirty Years War.

The beginning of the modern state system

_____introduced a new method of peace negotiations.

Peace of Westphalia

The ______war was a war that can be divided into the Hapsburg triumphs and the Hapsburg defeats.

Thirty Years War

The Palace at______was the best example of King Louis XIV's grand style.

Versailles

_____was the minister of finance under King Louis XIV.

Jean Baptiste Colbert

______were government agents who collected taxes and administered justice.

Intendents

______would become the most powerful ruler in French history.

King Louis XIV

Michel de Montaigne developed a new form of literature, the___

Essay

____was the idea that nothing can ever be known for certain.

Skepticism

_____was the actual ruler under King Louis XIII.

Cardinal Richelieu

The _____was a declaration of religious toleration issued by Henry IV.

Edict of Nantes

_______was the first king of the Bourbon Dynasty.

King Henry XIV

_____is the belief that God created the monarchy and the monarch acted as God's representative on Earth.

Divine Right

_______held all of the power within their states' boundaries.

Absolute Monarchs

______&______were two famous Dutch painters of the time.

Rembrandt and Vermeer

The two main differences between the United provinces of the Netherlands and the other

European states of the time were______ &_______

They practiced religious toleration, and they were a republic.

In 1579, the seven northern, Protestant provinces of the Netherlands declared their independence from________

Spain

_______was considered to be the birth of the modern European novel.

Don Quixote de la Mancha

Two famous painters for the Spanish royal court during this time were

________&______

El Greco and Velazquez

To whom did King Charles V leave Spain, the Spanish Netherlands, and the American colonies?

his son, Philip II

When the Hapsburg ruler King Charles V divided his empire he left Austria and the Holy Roman Empire to:

his brother, Ferdinand