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Chapter 18
| 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 |
| Charles V | |
| An agreement between states in the Holy Roman Empire that gave each German prince the right to decide wheather his state would be Catholic of Protestant. | Peace of Augsburg |
| Philip II | |
| El Greco | |
| Diego Velazquez | |
| Miguel de Cervantes | |
| Sister Juana lnes de la Cruz | |
| A great fleet (130 ships and 20,000 men) 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 |
| 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 |
| Louis XIII | |
| Cardinal Richelieu | |
| Louis XIV | |
| (1701-1713) war fought over the Spanish throne; Louis XIV wanted it for his son and fought a war againist 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 the 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 |
| Charles I | |
| Supporters of government by a monoarch; used as a name for supporters of England's King Charles I. | Royalists |
| 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 |
| Charles II | |
| William and Mary | |
| (1688) a nonviolent revolution which leaders of Britian's Parlament 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 |
| Wealthy Russian landowners. | Boyers |
| "caesar", title taken by the ruler of Russia. | Czar |
| Ivan IV | |
| Peter the Great | |
| The adoption of the culture and ideas of Western society, namely Europe and America. | Westernization |
| Catherine the Great | |
| (1618-1648) a conflict in Europe that began in Prague as a protestant rebellion againist the Holy Roman Empire; fought over religion and power among ruling dynasties. | Thirty Years' War |
| (1648) treaty ending the Thirty Years' War; it reduced the power of the Holy Roman Emperor; it extended religious toleration to Protestants and Catholics within most of the Empire. | Treaty of Westphalia |
| Maria Theresa | |
| Frederick the Great |
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Heather Lynn
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