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Rise of Monarchies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Czar who taxed beards and won the Great Northern War | Peter the Great |
| English ruling dynasty family | Tudor |
| Enlightened despot of Austria "Peasant Emperor" | Joseph II |
| English Queen during the Spanish Armada in 1588 | Elizabeth I |
| This King passed the Act of Supremacy in 1534 | Henry VIII |
| Enlightened depot of Prussia | Frederick the Great |
| "Sun King" of France | Louis XIV |
| Ruling family of France | Bourbon |
| Interpreter for George I; the 1st British Prime Minister | Robert Walpole |
| Enlightened Despot of Russia | Catherine the Great |
| Russian ruling family | Romanov |
| Prussian ruling family | Hohenzollern |
| Austrian ruling family | Hapsburgs |
| Lord Protector of England | Oliver Cromwell |
| Evil Cardinal who advised Louis XIII | Richelieu |
| 1689 document of British freedom signed by William & Mary | Bill of Rights |
| 1215 Great Charter signed by King John | Magna Carta |
| 1628 document of British freedom signed by Charles I | Petition of Right |
| Bloodless ousting of Kings James II in 1688 | Glorious Revolution |
| Royalist supporters of Charles I in the English Civil War | Cavilers |
| Extravagant palace 12 miles outside of Paris | Versailles |
| City known as "Window to the West" on the Baltic Sea | St. Petersburg |
| 1618 - 1648 conflict triggered in Bohemia by the Defenestration of Prague | 30 Years War |
| Danish explorer who explored Siberia and Alaska | Vitus Bering |
| Conflict between Russian and Sweden | Great Northern War |
| Royal ruler with complete control over his people | Absolute Monarch |
| Belief that a ruler is placed in power by God | Divine Right |
| 1598 law granting religious toleration to Huguenots | Edict of Nantes |
| Country that disappeared from the map after the 1770s | Poland |
| Restored the British Monarchy in 1660 | Charles II |
| Reigned in England when "Lost Colony" was founded | Elizabeth I |
| Cousin to Elizabeth I who was beheaded fro treason | Mary Queen of Scots |
| Replaced as English monarch during the Glorious Revolution | James II |
| Tried to Purge England of Protestantism | Mary Tudor |
| Led the New Model Army during English Civil War | Oliver Cromwell |
| "Wisest fool of Christendom" | James I |
| English king beheaded for treason | Charles I |
| Primary English ruling family | Stuart |
| The "drill sergeant king" | Frederick William I |
| Prussian king who won the 7 Year War by a fluke | Frederick II |
| Russian czar who wanted a warm water port and western expansion | Peter I |
| German Princess who ruled Russia and set up schools for women | Catherine the Great |
| Russian czar who was murdered in bed | Peter III |
| Friend of Frederick II who was beheaded | Katte |
| Supported absolutism in his book "Leviathan" | Thomas Hobbes |
| 1st Romanov to rule Russia | Mikhail |
| Tutor of Louis XIV who was trained by Richelieu | Mazarin |
| French king who issued the Edict of Nantes | Henry IV |
| Spanish King who sent out the Armada agains England | Philip II |
| Swedish king who died in battle in Thirty Years War | Gustavus Adolphus |
| Louis XIV's finance minister who devised mercantilism | Jean Colbert |
| She ruled Austria by pragmatic sancation | Maria Teresa |
| Hapsburg ruler who retired to monastery in 1556 | Charles V |
| Technique used by Russia to win the Great Norther War | Scorched Earth |
| French Calvinist which made up 10% of France | Huguenots |
| Absolute ruler who looks out for the good of the people | Enlighten Despot |
| Caused Huguenots to leave France when revoked | Edict of Nantes |
| Treaty that ended the Great Northern War | Nystad |
| Ended the 7 Years War | Treaty of Paris |
| Berlin was the Capital city of this German state | Prussia |
| Russian Civil War after the death of Ivan the Terribel | Times of Trouble |
| English legislature dismissed after 3 weeks | Short Parliament |
| English conspirator annually burned in effigy | Guy Fawkes |
| Treaty ended the War of Austrian Succession | Utrecht |
| Land owing noble class crushed by the Hohenzollerns | Junkers |
| English government under Cromwell | Commonwealth |
| Civil servants of the king | intendants |
| French regent who agreed to St. Bartholomew's Day Massarce | Catherine d' Medici |
| The nine day Queen of England | Lady Jane Grey |
| 1644 battle where New Model army emerged victorious | Marsten Moor |
| Famous diarist during the reign of Charles II | Samuel Pepys |
| English legislature in session from 1640 to 1653 | Long Parliament |
| Law which prevents England from having a Catholic monarch | Act of Settlement |
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