Index Librorum Prohibitorum
list of books once forbidden by Roman Catholic Church authority as dangerous to the faith or morals of Roman Catholics
Huguenots
French Calvinists
War of the Three Henrys
a religious war between Henry III, Henry of Navarre, and Henry of Guise for the throne of France (Catholic vs. Protestant vs. Ultra Catholic)
Habsburg family
a powerful family of German nobles in control of Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, parts of eastern Europe, the Austrian Empire, and the Holy Roman Empire
Thirty Years' War
a religious war in Europe between the Catholics and the Protestants that ended with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648
iberian peninsula
Spain and Portugal
mercantilism
economic system in which the government controls the economy in order to increase the power and wealth of the nation
subjugation
the action of bringing someone or something under dominion or control
portolani
charts made by medieval navigators that contained coastal contours and distances
flora and fauna
plant and animal life
nobles of the robe in france
the nobles whose nobility was either acquired by serving in the bureaucracy or had purchased them
la querelle des femmes
\n "the woman question"; a centuries-old debate about the status and nature of women