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WorldStudies Midterm
World Studies chap 17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the name of the royal official sent out by Louis XIV to collect taxes and recruit soldiers? | Intendant |
| The ruling family in Austria was the | Hapsburgs |
| What is the system of government in which the king only has SOME of the power | limited monarchy |
| What is the name of a series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years War? | Peace of Westphalia |
| The period of time in Britian after Charles I was executed and before Charles II became king was called | Kingless Decade |
| The government set up by Parliment after the English Civil War was called | Commonwealth |
| When a people are allowed to worship any way they see fit, it is called | religious freedom |
| Intentionally inflicting pain on someone but not killing him'her so the pain can last is called | torture |
| A Russian noble was called a | Boyar |
| The three leaders who partitioned up Poland were | Fredrick the Great, Catherine the Great, Emperor Joseph II |
| The period of time in Russia before Peter the Great became czar was called | the Time of Troubles |
| Which countries were originally part of the Holy Roman Empire? | Prussia, Netherlands, Austiia |
| Cardinal Richelieu's one primary goal was to | protect the crown at all costs |
| What new art form first became popular in France under Louis XIV? | BAllet |
| What family created Prussia? | Hohenzollen |
| By the mid-1700s absolute monarchs ruledwhich major European powers | France, Russia, Spain |
| How did King Louis XIV, the man who built France into a world power, set it up to fail? | overspending on the construction of Versailles, forcing the rest of Europe to unite against France, continuing to start wars that France could not win |
| Why was Maria Theresa able to unify her empire when her father could not? | the empire rallied around her after it was invaded |
| What two major European powers came out of the Thirty Years War? | Austria, Prussia |
| Why was revoking the Edict of Nantes Louis XIV's worst mistake? | he broke the religious compromise that had held France together |
| What did Henry IV do to keep France unified? | converted to Catholicism, France's largest religion |
| What are the steps to becoming an absolute monarch? | claim devine right, centralize the government, take personal control of the government |
| How did the Thirty Year War change Europe? | the map of Europe had to be completely redrawn |
| How did Peter the Great manage to keep the boyars under control after taking all their power? | he gave them free labor for life by spreading serfdom |
| Why were the Hapsburg's the big losers in the Thirty Years War? | they lost control of the massive Holy Roman Empire |
| What was the difference between the Tudor and Stuart monarchs that caused so much grief? | The Stuarts only talked to Parliment when they needed new taxes |
| What event officially started the English Civil War? | the king stormed the House of Commons with the army |
| In What way did Catherine the Great succeed that Peter the Great never did? | ge gained control of the Black Sea |
| What are some reasons that Spain's ecomony declined? | the treasury was drained by Philip's costly wars, Philip II's heirs were simply not as good as he was, Philip II banished the Jews and Muslims, Spain's best artisans |
| Kings had been killed before, so what was so shocking about the end of the English Civil War? | Never before had the king been tried, convicted, and executed by his own subjects |
| Why did Louis XIV never actually centralize the French government? | Cardinal Richielieu had already broken the nobles' power for his farther. |
| Why was the Hungarian Plea such an important speech for Empress Maria Theresa? | it demonstrated her abilities as a ruler and united the empire behind her |
| What style of fingting did Kip and Napolean go to study while Kip was in training to be a cage fighter? | Rexkwondo |
| If a ruler believes they are in power because God put them there, this is called | divine right |
| Peter the Great went to war with Sweden over control of the | Boltecsea |
| A very strict Christian is called a | Puritan |
| What is the name of the legal concept that states you must actually have a good reason before you can imprison someone | just cause |
| Cardinal Richelieu was to Louis XIII as _____________ was to Louis XIV | Cardinal Mazarin |
| A king or queen with complete control over the governemnt and his/her people is a(n) | autocrat |
| The system of rules in government and the people who enforce them are called a(n) | bureaucracy |
| Before Parliment would grant Charles I new taxes they forced him to sign the | Petition of Rights |
| What were the 2 sides in the English Civil War? | Roundheads and Cavaliers |
| Whom did the Roundheads support? | Conservative |
| Whom did the Cavaliers support? | Like the democrats |
| What major advantage did the Roundheads have? | They had a lot of supporters with them and they had money. |
| What major advantage did the Cavaliers have? | Were on the king's side. |
| Name the system of government in Europe prior to the Age of Absolutism? | Monarchy |
| What is the Absolute Monarchy system of govement based on? | taking devine right and controlling the people |
| Why did the Age of Absolutism begin? | Reign of terror |
| Why is an Absolute Monarchy better than ______________ (previous system)? | it was more effective and they could control the people better |
| What did Fredrich the Great's father do to him? | killed his favorite teacher |
| Why did Fredrick the Great's father kill his favorite teacher? | Wanted him to go to the school and learn to be a great ruler |
| Did killing Fredrick the Great's teacher work? | Yes |
| Why did killing Fredrick the Great's teacher work to help Fredick? | Made him focus on being a ruler not a student |
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