Absolutism

Edict of Fontainebleau

________: Banned Huguenots from practicing in France; many fled, weakening the economy.

Peace of Utrecht

The ________ allowed the Spanish Bourbon dynasty to continue but affirmed that the Spanish and French thrones would remain separate.

Internal administration

What was more difficult and mostly done by bribery? Answer with a single words or term.

France

Stephen Colbert: Louis XIV's minister of finance, adhered to mercantilist policies, especially via tariffs and internal improvements. ________ invaded Spanish Netherlands, and Triple Alliance (Dutch, English, and Swedish) forced him to sue for peace.

Louis

________ distracted the nobility with elaborate court rituals.

Peace of Nystadt

The ________ gave Peter Estonia, Livonia, and Karelia.

Saint Petersburg

________ became Russia's new capital city and "window to the West.

Gustavus Adolphus

________ (r. 1611- 1632) formed a First Estate of nobles, which consisted of bureaucratic positions in the centralized government.

Leopold I

________ moved the empire's possessions further East but was challenged by the Ottoman Empire.

Sweden

In 1660, a bloodless revolution led to the creation of a centralized, hereditary monarchy, and a reduction in the nobility's powerSweden. ________ was relatively powerful in the Absolutist era, despite its relative poverty and powerful monarchy.

General War Commissariat

The ________ began as a way to raise money for the army, but became a civil government agency as well.

Austria

________ was not very centralized, it was mostly unified by regional aristocrats 'responsibility to the House of HapsburgItaly.

Cardinal Richelieu

________ increased the taille (tax) to pay for the Thirty Years 'War, but France's debt continued to spiral.