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history test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is the significance of England's defeat of the Spanish armada? | The Spanish have been the most powerful and wanted to convert all of England to Catholicism. |
| Why did the dutch revolt against spain? | Philip ll raised taxes and tried to crush Protestantism. |
| why did absolute monarchs believe that they were justified in exersicinsg absolute power. | They believed they got their power from god. They believed they were representing god on earth so all the subjects had to obey them. |
| what rolw did religion play in the struggle between the spanish and the dutch. | Spain tried to impose catholicism on Dutch, which were Protenstansim. |
| How did lack of middle class contribute to Spain's decline? | Spanish businesses did not grow because of high taxes. They had to buy manufactured goods from their enemies. |
| What impact did the French religious wars have on French thinkers? | French thinkers began to express an attitude of doubt toward churches that claimed to have the only correct set of doctrines. |
| How did Jean Baptiste Colbert intend to stimulate economic growth in France? | Colbert believed in the theory of Mercantilism. To prevent wealth from leaving the country, Colbert tried to make France self-sufficient. |
| What was the result of the War of the Spanish Succession? | It was caused by the power of the French Bourbons as they are in a throne. The rest of the countries in Europe felt threatened by the Bourbon dynasty's power that they joined together to stop the union of the French and Spanish's thrones. |
| How did the policies of Colbert and Louis XIV affect the French economy? Explain both positive and negative results. | Positive: Become more wealthy by trades Negative: His policy of war affects the economy. |
| To what extent did anti-Protestantism contribute to Louis's downfall? | To what extent did anti-Protestantism contribute to Louis's downfall? It was when he tries to take over the boundaries by end up in getting owned by the British's power |
| What were the major conflicts in the Thirty Years' War? | religion, territory and power among European ruling families. |
| What steps did the Austrian Hapsburgs take towards becoming absolute monarchs? | They centralized the government and created an army. |
| What countries were allies during the Seven Years' War? | Austria, France, Russia and others were allied against Britain and Prussia. |
| How did the peace of Westphalia lay the foundations of modern Europe? | Weakened Germany and didn't unify until 1800s -Strong France -Ended European religious war -new peace negotiation method |
| Why did Maria Theresa make an alliance with the French kings, Austria's chief enemies? | Maria Theresa made alliances with French Kings and Austria's chief enemies because it took away allies from Ferdinand and also she became a peace advocator and wanted to make truce. |
| How did Ivan the Terrible deal with his enemies during his "bad period"? | He had his people hunt and kill them. |
| Why did Peter the Great believe that Russia's future depended on having a warm-water port? | With a warm water port more european ideas and technologies came into Russia which modernized them. |
| What were some of the ways Peter tried to westernize Russia? | introduced potatoes, which became a staple of the Russian diet started Russia's first newspaper and edited its first issue himself raised women's status by having them attend social gatherings |
| Which class of Russian society probably didn't benefit from Peter's reforms? Why? | Landowners because their land was taken away from them and they were slowly going lower on the social ladder. |
| How might Peter's attempts at westernization have affected his people's opinion of Christians in western Europe? | Once Peter the Great became leader, his ideas seemed to his people more normal or in other words a less heretic sense. |
| What is absolutism. | one ruler, king or queen, should hold all the power. |
| where does an absolute monarch get their power? | from god |
| what does it mean for a king or queen to have a divine right to rule. | Because they are getting their power from god, they be;ieve all the subjects to listen to them. |
| two causes of absolutism. | religious and territorial conflicts and the growth of armies made conflicts because of having to pay higher taxes. |
| two effects of absolutism | the ruler did not want people thinking for themselves and a ruler would make their courts or armies larger to appear more powerful. |
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