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chapter 18
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 rulers authority comes directly from God | divine right |
| 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 |
| A great fleet (130 ships and 20,000 men) assembled by Spain in 1588 for an invasion of England | Spanish Armada |
| King of Spain; Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1558;his opposition to the protestant reformation embroiled Spain in a series of wars throughout his reign | Charles V |
| king of Spain(1556-1598, Naples from (554-1598), and Portugal from (1580-1598) | Philip II |
| Greek painter in Spain; chiefly religious in nature, his works express the spirit of the counter, or Catholic, reformation | El Greco |
| Spanish painter; he painted in a realistic style but always worked in impressionism towards the end of his career | Diego Velazquez |
| Spanish novelist,dramatist,and poet; he wrote Don Quixote de la Mancha | Miguel De Cervantes |
| Mexican nun and poet, she wrote poetry,pose, and plays | Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz |
| French Calvinist protestant | Huguenot |
| August 24 1572;a massacre of 6000 to 8000 Huguenots in Paris authorized by king Charles IX and his mother Cathrine de Medici | Saint Bartholomew's day massacre |
| 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 |
| 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 gain the throne for France | War of the Spanish Succession |
| 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 |
| King of France from 1610 to 1643;a relatively week ruler, he let Cardinal Richelieu, his chief minister , hold great sway during his reign | Louis XIII |
| French minister and chief minister of king Louis XIII; he wanted to strengthen the monarchy and fought against Huguenot resistance to the Catholic monarchy | Cardinal Richelieu |
| king of France form 1589 to 1610; he issued the edict of Nantes (1598), which permitted protestant worship, in order to restore peace to France | Henry IV |
| King of France from 1643 to 1715;Known as the Sun King, he built the palace at Versailles as a means to consolidate absolute power; a series of wars at the end of his long reign France's wealth. | Louis XIV |
| A group of strict Calvinists | Puritans |
| supporters of government by monarch; used as a name for supporte4rs of England's king Charles I | Royalist |
| republican government based on the common good of all of the people | commonwealth |
| The period of the reign of Charles II in England when the Monarch was restored after the collapse of Oliver Cromwell's government;there was also a rebirth of English culture during this time | Restoration |
| Glorious Revolution | |
| Constitutional monarchy |
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