Top-down view of European imperial expansion: New Monarchies and Age of Exploration

Flashcards covering the development of new monarchies, absolutist monarchies, and the age of exploration, including key figures and events from the lecture notes.

From roughly 1450 to 1520, development of so called __, which consolidated power and created the foundations for Europe's first modern nation states.

new monarchies

By the seventeenth century, the rise of so called __ monarchies.

absolutist

A key characteristic of new monarchies is the __ of the nobility and confiscation of their land.

reduction of the power

New monarchies imposed a __ tax burden on the nobility.

heavy

New monarchies saw the rise of a __ army.

standing

The church begins to lose some of its __ during this period.

power

There was a development of a more centralized and efficient __.

bureaucracy

There was a rise in the power of the __ class.

middle

The war called the .

Hundred Years' War

The result of the Hundred Years' War was England loses all territorial claims in __.

France

The French king nicknamed the 'Spider King' was __.

Louis XI

In England after the Hundred Years' War, the king who reduced the power of the nobility and stripped them of private armies was __ VII.

Henry VII

The monarchs who unified Spain and sponsored Columbus and led the Spanish Inquisition were __.

Ferdinand and Isabella

The Spanish Inquisition aimed to root out __.

heresy

The Holy Roman Emperor who invaded Rome in 1527 and symbolizes the end of the Italian Renaissance was __.

Charles V

Between 1500 and 1700 Europe saw a __ revolution (economic).

commercial

A rise in prices due to more money in circulation is called the __ revolution.

price

Capitalism is an economic system with __ governmental control over industry.

limited

The Medici family became an important __ power.

banking

A major example of a state chartered company is the __ East India Company.

British