CHAPTER 21 - Absolute Monarchs in Europe (1500-1800) - World History: Patterns of Interaction (Atlas by Rand McNally 2009)

Charles

________ tried to arrest Parliaments leaders in January 1642, but they escaped.

Philip

________ sent an army under Spanish duke of Alva to punish rebels.

Peter

________ believed that education was a key to Russias progress.

Elizabeth

________ had supported Protestant subjects who had rebelled against Philip.

Charles VI

________ spent his entire reign trying to figure out how to continue his rule over all of his lands.

Versailles

Who was a center of the arts during Louiss reign? Answer with a single words or term.

Spain

________ was able to support a large standing army of about 50, 000 soldiers b /c of this wealth.

Cromwell Puritans

________ sought to reform society.

Landowners

________ could give serfs away as presents or to pay debts.

French people

________ longed for peace, but got another war instead.

Dutch

The ________ saved their country by opening the dikes and flooding the countryside.

Parliament

________ debated who should inherit Charless throne.

Ferdinand

________ sent an army into Bohemia to crush the revolt.

England

________ had become not an absolute monarchy but a constitutional monarchy, where laws limited the rulers power.

Henry

________ chose to give up Protestantism /became Catholic for the sake of his war- weary country.

Austrian Hapsburgs

The ________ took the Spanish Netherlands and other Spanish lands in Italy.

Prisoners

________ could not be held indefinitely without trials.

Maria Theresa

________ went to Hungary after recently giving birth /asked the Hungarian nobles for aid.

Frederick

________ wanted the Austrian land of Silesia, which bordered Prussia.

Germany

________ had a long, difficult recovery from the war.

Montaigne

________ pointed out that whenever a new belief arose, it replaced an old belief that people once accepted as truth.

James

________ offended the Puritan members of Parliament by upholding rituals of the Anglican church.

Mazarin

________ died in 1661, Louis took control of the govt himself.

Puritans

James offended the Puritan members of Parliament by upholding rituals of the Anglican church. ________ hoped that he would enact reforms to purify the English church of Catholic practices.

Ivans

________ son proved to be physically and mentally incapable of ruling.