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- Parliament declared England a republic
- Abolished monarchy
- Protestants whose views and opinions differed from those of the Church of England
- Two Groups: Puritans & Pilgrims
- Authority to rule comes from God
- God's agent on earth
- Monarchs used this to justify their power and actions
- Ensured the superiority of Parliament OVER the monarchy
- Bared any Roman Catholic from sitting on the throne
- Parliament leaders asked James II's Protestant daughter, Mary, and her husband, William, to replace James II
- Bloodless overthrow
- Imprisoned enemies without trial and tried to raise taxes without Parliament
- Signed Petition of Right but ignored it
- Dissolved Parliament for 11 years then asks them to give money for war
- Created enemies with Puritans
- Tried forcing Anglicanism on subjects
- Parliament & Calvinist Scotts revolt
- Eventually put on trial then executed
- Challenged English absolutism
- Cavaliers Vs Roundheads
- Inherited throne at a young age
- Appointed Cardinal Richelieu
- Major architect of French absolutism
- Chief minster appointed by Louis XIII
- Worked to strengthen the royal government and destroy any who defied the royal government
- "Sun King"
- Used the sun to symbolize his absolute power
- "I am the state"
- Estates General
- NEVER called a meeting
- Worked with middle class and limited the influence of nobles
- France becomes strongest & wealthiest
- REVOKED Edict of Nantes
- Saw Protestant minority at a threat
- Louis XIV used this to symbolize his absolute power
- At the center of solar system
- Elizabeth encouraged "sea dogs" to plunder Spanish ships and loot cities in Spanish Americas
- Phillip II of Spain sent an armada to invade England and overthrow Protestantism
-> This failed : "strong winds" favored the English
- Elizabeth died without an heir and the throne was passed to him
- Also known as James VI of Scotland
-His family wasn't popular
- Claimed Divine Right to Rule to Parliament
- Parliament wasn't impressed
- The lawmaking body of British government
- Tried to stand firm against absolutism in England
- Louis XIV
- Meaning he embodies the state, absolute power and authority
- Leader of Roundheads
- Leader of Commonwealth
- Organized "New Model Army"
- Defeated the Cavaliers
- Put Charles I on trial
- Exiled Irish Catholics
- "Lord Protector"
- Organized by Oliver Cromwell for Parliament
- Made up of Roundheads
- August 24, 1572
- Catholic holiday; Huguenot & Catholic nobles at a royal wedding
- Catholic plot ; 3,000 Huguenots killed and more killed over the few days
- Absolute monarch and claimed divine right
- Guardian of the Roman Church and wanted to stop Protestantism
- Enforced Catholic unity
- Set Inquisition against Protestants
- Fought many wars to advance Spanish Catholic power
- Brother of Charles II
- Openly Catholic
- Suspended laws and appointed Catholics to office
- English Protestants feared he would restore the Roman Catholic Church
- "Kingless decade" ended
- Popular ; restored official church and encouraged religious tolerance
- Accepted Petition of Right but believed in absolute monarchy
- Sympathetic to Catholics
- Kept Parliament happy
- Strong supporter of arts and science
- Kingless decade ended
-return of the monarchy
- House of Bourbon
- Huguenot but convert to Catholicism
- Issued Edict of Nantes
- Restored France and set foundation for absolutism in France
- King of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor
- Devout Catholic
- Empire too much for one to handle and divides it
- Gave up titles and went to a monastery
- Consulted and controlled Parliament
- Rarely asked for their view and advice
- 45 year reign: summoned for Parliament 13 times; 12 times for money
- Her advisors conveyed her wishes; some subjects she forbid them to discuss
- Protestant daughter of James II
- Before crowded, had to accept the English Bill of Rights
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