Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Ap Euro Absolutism
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| absolutism | Derived from the traditional assumption of power and the belief in "divine right of kings |
| Jean Bodin | Among the first to provide a theoretical basis for absolute states |
| Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan | pessimistic view of human beings in a state of nature |
| Bishop Bossuet | principal advocate of "divine right of kings" in France during the reign of Louis XIV |
| “divine right” of kings | meant that the king was placed on the throne by God, the therefore owned his authority to no man or group |
| First Estate | clergy:1% of population |
| Second Estate | nobility; 3/4 % of population |
| Third Estate | bourgeoisie;(middle class) |
| Henry IV | Laid the foundation for france becoming the strongest european power in the 17th Century |
| Bourbon dynasty | Henry IV was the first King of the Borbon Dynasty |
| nobility of the sword | not allowed to influence the royal council |
| nobility of the robe | new nobles who purchased their titles from the monarchy |
| Duke of Sully | 1560-1641,finance minister |
| Louis XIII | as a youth, his regency was best by corruption and mismanegment |
| Cardinal Richelieu | laid foundation for absolutism in France |
| politique | placed political issues ahead of religious issues |
| Intendant system | used to weaken the nobility |
| Louis XIV, “Sun King” | quintessential ruler in European History |
| “L’ état, c’est moi” | "I am the state" -Louis XIV, "Sun King" |
| Fronde | a revolt from the nobles |
| Cardinal Mazarin | controlled france while Louis XIV was a child |
| corvee | forced labor that required peasants to work for a month out of the year on roads and other public projects |
| Versailles Palace | became the grandest and most impressive palace in all of Europe |
| Edict of Fontainebleau | revoked Edict of Nantes |
| Jansenists | Catholics who held some calvanest ideas |
| mercantilism | state control over a countries economy in order to achieve a favorable balance of trade with other countries |
| bullionism | a nation's policy of accumulating as much precious metal as possible while preventing its outward flow to other countries |
| Jean-Baptiste Colbert | French mercantilism reached it's height with him |
| balance of power | no one country will be allowed to dominate the continent |
| War of the League of Augsburg | in response to another invasion of the Spanish Netherlands by Louis XIV in 1683 |
| War of Spanish Succession | Cause:The will of Charles II(Habsburg King)gave all spanish territories to the grandson of Louis XIV |
| Treaty of Utrecht | Most important treaty between the Treaty of Westphalia and the Treaty of Paris |
| Philip II | king of spain |
| Escorial Palace | built in order to demonstrate Philip's power |
| “price revolution” | hurt domestic industries that were unable to export goods |
| Spanish Armada | seen by some historians as the beginning of the decline of the Spanish Empire |
| Treaty of the Pyrenees, 1659 | marked the end of spain as a great power |
| Baroque | reflected the age of absolutism |
| Bernini | personified baroque architecture and sculpture |
| Versailles Palace | built during the reign of Louis XIV in the quintessential baroque structure |
| Schönbrunn | Habsburg Emperor Leopold I built in Austria in response to the Versailles Palace |
| Winter Palace | Peter the Great in Russia built this in St.Petersburg largely on the influence of Versailles |
| Caravaggio, tenebrism | Italian Painter in Rome |
| Peter Paul Rubens | Flemish Painter |
| Diego Velázquez | perhaps the greatest court painter of the era |
| Artemisia Gentileschi | famous for vivid depictions of dramatic scenes and her "Judith" Paintings |
| Dutch Style | did not fit the baroque style of trying to overwhelm the viewer |
| Rembrandt van Rijin | painter |
| Jan Vermeer | paintings of ordinary people in simple scenes |
| French Classicism | paintings rationally organized to achieve harmony and balance |
| Nicolas Poussin | painter |
| Jean Baptiste Racine | dramatist |
| Jean-Baptiste Moliere | dramatist |
| J.S. Bach | greatest of the Baroque composers |
Created by:
Jose_Martinez
Popular European History sets