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Chapter 18 Key Terms
Key Terms and People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A ruler that has unlimited power and authority over his or her people | Absolute Monarch |
| The belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from God | Divine Right |
| A man who bought his votes and became Holy Roman Emperor | Charles V |
| An agreement between states in the Holy Roman Empire that gave each German prince the right to decide whether his state would be Catholic or Protestant | Peace of Augsburg |
| He ruled the Netherlands, Spain, Sicily, and Spain's colonies in the Americas | Philip 11 |
| One of the mos prominent painters was a Greek, Domenico's Theotocopoulos | El Greco |
| A Spanish painter that's work portray people of all social classes with great dignity | Diego Velazquez |
| A famous Spanish writer | Miguel de Cervantes |
| A Mexican nun who wrote poetry, prose, and plays | Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz |
| A great fleet assembled by Spain in 1588 for an invasion of England | Spanish Armada |
| A French Protestant | Huguenot |
| August 24, 1572; a massacre of 6,000 to 8,000 Huguenots in Paris authorized by King Charles IX and his mother Catherine de Medici | Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre |
| A man who won acceptance by converting to Catholicism and then crowned ....... | Henry IV |
| A declaration of French king Henry IV in which he promised that Protestants could live peacefully in France and were free to establish houses of worship in selected French cities | Edict of Nantes |
| The King after Henry and was very young | Louis XIII |
| A chief minister and most trusted adviser | Cardinal Richelieu |
| The son of XIII was crowned ..... | Louis XIV |
| (1701-1713) war fought over the Spanish throne; Louis XIV wanted it for his son and fought a war against the Dutch, English, and the Holy Roman Empire to gain the throne for France | War of the Spanish Succession |
| (1713) treaty that ended the War of the Spanish Succession; it gave the throne to Louis XIV's grandson but also stated that France and Spain would never be ruled by the same monarch | Treaty of Utrecht |
| English Protestants of the late 1500s and most of the 1600s who wanted to "purify" the Church of England through reforms | Puritans |
| James I died and was then crowned King | Charles I |
| Supporters of government by monarch; used as a name for supporters of England's King Charles I | Royalists |
| The person leading the roundhead forces was a member of Parliament named ....... | Oliver Cromwell |
| A republican government based on the common good of all the people | Commonwealth |
| The period of the reign of Charles II in England when the monarchy was restored after the collapse of Oliver Cromwell's government; there was also a rebirth of English culture during this time | Restoration |
| The son of king Charles I and was crowned king ....... | Charles II |
| The King and Queen of England and they were both Protestants living in the Netherlands | William and Mary |
| A nonviolent revolution in which leaders of Britain's Parliament invited Mary, daughter of King James II, and her husband, the Dutch ruler William of Orange, to replace King James II | Glorious Revolution |
| A monarchy limited by certain laws | Constitutional Monarchy |
| Boyars | |
| Czar | |
| Ivan IV | |
| Peter the Great | |
| Westernization | |
| Catherine the Great | |
| Thirty Years' War | |
| Treaty of Westphalia | |
| Maria Theresa | |
| Frederick the Great |
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