Age of Absolutism
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- Dissenters
- Protestants who differed with the Church of England
- Armada
- Spanish fleet - Phillip II lost to England
- Phillip II's Rival leader
- Elizabeth I of England
- El Greco
- Meaning "the Greek" - a famous painter of Spain's Golden age
- Don Quixote
- The first modern novel in Europe written by Miguel de Cervantes
- St. Bartholomew's massacre
- A killing at a Huguenot and Catholic royal wedding that led to the massacre of 3,000 Huguenots. *Symbolized the complete breakdown of order in France.*
- Louis XIII
- Henry IV's son who inherited the throne at the age of 9 in 1610
- Known as "The Sun King"
- Louis XIV
- "I am the State"
- Louis XIV famous quote
- Louis XIV finance minister
- Jean Baptiste Colbert
- Balance of Power
- A distribution of military and economic power that would prevent any one nation from dominating Europe.
- Who was England ran by from 1485-1603?
- The Tudor Dynasty
- Last Tudor to rule England
- Elizabeth I
- The first Stuart ruler for England
- James I
- Oliver Cromwell
- Leader of the Roundheads
- Parliament
- The branch of English government that made a limited Monarchy?
- English Civil War
- War between Charles I (Cavaliers) and Oliver Cromwell (roundheads)
- Glorious Revolution
- James II is kicked out by Parliament and replaced by his Protestant daughter, Mary , and her Protestant husband, William.
- Habeas Corpus
- No person could be held in prison without first being charged w/ a specific crime.
- Limited monarchy
- a constitution or legislative body limits the monarch's powers.
- Petition of Right
- King cannot raise taxes w/o Parliament's consent and he cannot put someone in jail for no just cause.
- Act of Supremacy
- made the Monarch head of the Church of England.
- Mercenaries
- soldiers for hire
- depopulation
- Reduction in population
- Peace of Westphalia
- Ended the Thirty Years' War. It marked the end of the Holy Roman Empire as an effective institution and inaugurated the modern European state system
- Frederick II
- Leader of Prussia
- Maria Theresa
- Leader of Austria
- How did Frederick the great (II) rule his country?
- Harsh military
- Peter the Great
- Russian leader to worked to westernize Russia
- Westernization
- the adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture