Unit 1 part 2 apeh

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