Chapter 14: Crisis and Absolutism in Europe

Thomas Hobbes

________ was alarmed by the revolutionary upheavals in England.

John Locke

________, who wrote a political work called Two Treatises of Government, 1690, viewed the exercise of political power quite differently.

religious harmony

Maintaining ________ had long been a part of monarchical power in France.

El Greco

In his paintings, ________ used elongated and contorted figures, portraying them in unusual shades of yellow and green against an eerie background of stormy grays.

Thirty Years War

The ________ was the most destructive conflict that Europeans had yet experienced.

Artemisia Gentileschi

________ is less well- known than the male artists who dominated the seventeenth- century art world in Italy but prominent in her own right.

Cardinal Richelieu

________, Louis XIIIs chief minister, strengthened the power of the monarchy.

Mannerism

________ in art reflected this new environment by deliberately breaking down the High Renaissance principles of balance, harmony, and moderation.

Peace of Westphalia

The ________ stated that all German states, including the Calvinist ones, could determine their own religion.

problem of disorder

He (Thomas Hobbes) wrote Leviathan, a work on political thought, to try to deal with the ________.

Huguenots

________ were French Protestants influenced by John Calvin.

Louis XIV

________ came to the throne in 1643 at the age of four.

Spanish Netherlands

The ________, which consisted of 17 provinces (modern Netherlands and Belgium), was one of the richest parts of Philips empire.

William Shakespeare

________ was a "complete man of the theater ..

Ivan

________ expanded the territories of Russia eastward.

Romanov dynasty

The ________ lasted until 1917.

Shakespeare

When ________ appeared in London in 1592, Elizabethans already enjoyed the stage.

Colbert

________ sought to increase the wealth and power of France by following the ideas of mercantilism.

Mazarin

When ________ died in 1661, Louis XIV took over supreme power.

Absolutism

________ is a system in which a ruler holds total power.

Phillip II of Spain

________ had toyed for years with the idea of invading England.

Philip II

________, the "Most Catholic King, "became a champion of Catholic causes, a role that led to spectacular victories and equally spectacular defeats.