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Chp 5: Sec 1,2,3,&4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| True / False : Philip ii of Spain lived within the walls of his gray, granite palace called the Escorial | True |
| True / False : The Portuguese Armada was defeated in 1588 by stormy weather and the English navy. | True |
| True / False : During the 1600s, the Spanish gradually replaced the Italians as the bankers of Europe. | False, The Dutch |
| True / False : The Republic formed by the United Provinces of Spain an unusual type of government for the 16th-century Europe. | False, United provinces of Netherlands |
| True / False : In his novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes wrote about a poor Spanish nobleman who chases after windmills. | True |
| True / False : Philip ii believed it was his duty to defend Protestantism from its enemies in Europe and the ottoman Empire. | False, Catholicism |
| True / False : England failed to develop a middle class in the 1500s because the tax burden on the lower classes prevented their ability to begin businesses. | False, Spain |
| ______ Was known as the sun king | Louis XIV |
| ____ became first king of the Bourbon dynasty | Henry IV |
| ________ is the magnificent palace built for Louis XIV | Versailles |
| ___ was a Protestant prince who became a Catholic king | Henry IV |
| ____ was a writer who became a skeptic and developed the essay form | Michel de Montaigne |
| _____ were government against who collected taxes and administered justice | Intendants |
| ______was the conflict that was waged to prevent the union of the French and Spanish thrones | Thirty Years War |
| ______ fought against Catholics in eight wars in France between 1562 and 1598 | Huguenots |
| ______was the king who increased the power of the intendants as the expense of the nobility | Louis XIV |
| ____ was a declaration of religious tolerance issued by Henry IV and canceled by Louis XIV | Edict of Nantes |
| ____ was the minister to Louis XIV whose policies' drove nobles to rebel against the boy king | Cardinal Mazarin |
| ____ was the minister of finance under Louis XIV whose policies' mercantilism cause France's economy to grow and prosper | Jean Baptiste Colbert |
| _____was the minister to Louis XIII who took steps to strengthen the power of the monarchy at the expense of the Huguenots and the nobility | Cardinal Richelieu |
| Most of the early battles of the Thirty Years' War were won by the ________? | Hapsburgs |
| In the mid-1600s, the group that was LEAST dependent on the labor of serfs was ______? | the nations of western Europe |
| Under Maria Theresa, Austria's greatest enemy was ______? | Prussia |
| Frederick II came to power as the ____? | king of Prussia |
| The War of Austria Succession was fought over the possession of lands belonging to ______? | Maria Theresa |
| In Europe, the Seven Years' War resulted in ______? | No exchange of territories in Europe |
| The first Russian ruler to adopt the title Czar, meaning "caesar" was ____? | Ivan the Terrible |
| Ivan the Terrible's cruelty was aimed mainly at ____? | Nobles |
| in Russia, the boyars were ___? | landowning nobles |
| Peter the Greats main reason for visiting the West was to ______? | learn about Western customs and technology |
| At the time that Peter the Great took the throne, the most essential part of the Russian economy was ____? | serfs |
| The site for St. Petersburg was chosen because it was near ____? | water routes to Europe |
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