Chapter 21 - Absolute Monarchs in Europe

John Lambert

________, a Cromwell associate, authored the first written constitution of any contemporary European state.

concise writing

A(n) ________ that communicates a person's ideas and beliefs is known as an essay.

French Bourbons

The ________ ruled both of Europe's major nations, which had been foes for so long.

Parliament

________ established laws to limit royal power in the autumn of 1641.

Cromwell

________ and the Puritans tried to transform society in England.

Ferdinand II

________, the future Holy Roman Emperor, was the head of the Hapsburg family.

Frederick William

________, a 20- year- old Hohenzollern, inherited the title of elector of Brandenburg in 1640.

Montaigne

________ created a new genre of literature, the essay, to communicate his thoughts.

Louis

________ attacked the Spanish Netherlands in 1667, just six years after Mazarin's death, in an attempt to expand France's borders.

Europe

In ________, the 17th century was a time of immense upheaval.

Charles II

________, Spain's childless monarch, died in 1700 after guaranteeing the kingdom to Louis XIV's 16- year- old grandson, Philip of Anjou.

Monarchs

________ were more powerful when Europe emerged from the Middle Ages.

Russia

Serfdom in ________ lasted much longer than it did in Western Europe, until the mid- 1800s.

Czech Republic

The Hapsburgs exterminated Protestantism in the ________ and established a new Czech nobility that committed allegiance to them.

Henry

________ was a strong, athletic, and attractive descendant of the popular medieval monarch Louis IX.

Henry IV

He was the first monarch of France's Bourbon dynasty, ________.