World History Vocab words

  • Absolute monarchy

  • Divine Right

  • Hapsburg Empire

  • Armada

  • Huguenots

  • Edict of Nantes

  • Versailles

  • Balance of power

  • Elector

  • Mercenary

  • Depopulation

  • Peace of Westphalia

  • War of the Austrian Succession

  • Westernization

  • Autocratic

  • Warm-water port

  • St. Petersburg

  • Partition

  • Dissenter

  • Puritan

  • English Bill of Rights

  • Limited monarchy

  • Constitutional government

  • Cabinet

  • Prime minister

  • Oligarchy

  • Natural law

  • Social contract

  • Natural rights

  • Laissez-faire

  • Free market

  • Free enterprise system

  • Censorship

  • Salon

  • Baroque

  • Enlightened despot

  • Stamp Act

  • Popular sovereignty

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Federal Republic

  • Checks and Balances

  • Estates

  • Bourgeoisie

  • Estates-General

  • Tennis Court Oath

  • Bastille

  • faction

  • Suffrage

  • Reign of Terror

  • Guillotine

  • Nationalism

  • Plebiscite

  • Napoleonic Code

  • Napoleonic Wars

  • Annex

  • Continental System

  • Guerilla Warfare

  • Abdicate

  • Congress of Vienna

  • Legitimacy

  • Concert of Europe

  • Charles V

  • Philip II

  • Henry IV

  • Louis XIV

  • Frederick William I

  • Frederick II

  • Peter the Great

  • Catherine the Great

  • James I

  • Charles I

  • Oliver Cromwell

  • Thomas Hobbes

  • John Locke

  • Montesquieu

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Adam Smith

  • Joseph II

  • George III

  • George Washington

  • Benjamin Franklin

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • James Madison

  • Marquis de Lafayette

  • Louis XVI

  • Olympe de Gouges

  • Maria Antoinette

  • Maximilien Robespierre

  • Napoleon Bonaparte