Unit 3 Extra Knowledge

  • English Bill of Rights

    • signed by William of Orange and Mary II

    • established civil and constitutional rights

  • Stuarts 

    • Ended when the British passed the throne to House of Hannover

  • Popish Plot

    • fictional plot that claimed jesuits were going to assasinate charles II

  • Tories

    • supported king’s right over parliament

  • Whigs

    • supported parliament opposed absolute king

  • Charles II

    • the one that people liked

    • james II brother

  • James II

    • charles II brother

    • last catholic monarch

    • not well liked

    • religious conflicts

  • William and Mary

    • called from netherlands to rule england during the glorious revolution

  • Oliver Cromwell

    • lord protector

    • created english commonwealth

  • Constitutional Monarchy

    • monarch’s powers are limited by a constitution

  • Test Act

    • against catholics

  • Governments of the Netherlands and Poland

    • netherlands: oligarchy made up of merchants (?)

    • poland: skejm, very unstable and weak

  • Louis XIV/ Sun King

    • best example of an absolute monarchy

  • Cardinal Richelieu

    • help established france’s absolute monarchy

  • Jean- Bapitste Colerte

    • finance minister to Louis XIV

  • Count of Olivares

    • prime minster of spain, tried to centralize but failed

  • War of Spanish Succession

    • great powers wanted to stop France from having control of Spain since a bourbon was going to sit on the throne

  • Peter the Great

    • russian tsar

    • built st petersburg

  • Suleiman the Magnificent

    • sultan of the ottoman empire

  • Amsterdam

    • wealthiest city

  • Sweden

    • very protestant idk

  • Hannover Dynasty

    • after stuarts

  • Dutch East Indies and British East India Company 

    • trading companies

  • Habsburg

    • dynasty that ruled HRE idk i dont think this was on the test

  • Prussia

    • its prussia like idk

  • Balance of power

    • one country doesn’t have a vastly different/greater amount of power than another