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History Test
Austria, Russia, Prussia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mercenaries | Roving armies of ______________ or soldiers for hire, burned villages, destroyed crops and killed without mercy. |
| Black Sea | Catherine was determined to expand Russia's borders, after a war with the Ottoman Empire, she finally gained a warm water port on the ___________ ___. |
| Beards | fter visiting Europe and seeing how modern other countries were, Peter decided to bring back ideas to Russia. As a result, he forced the boyars to tax a tax on this or he would cut it off himself? |
| Hapsburg's | The dynastic ruling family of Austria is known as the _______________? |
| Sweden | In 1700, Peter the Great started a war with _________. This was known as the Great Northern War. |
| Silesia | The War of Austrian Succession was brought about when Frederick II of Prussia seized the wealthy Hapsburg province of __________. |
| 16 | Maria Theresa became Empress at the age of 23. She would go on to have how many children? |
| England | What country did Peter the Great visit in an effort to gain knowledge of how to modernize and westernize Russia? |
| Serfdom | Under Peter's rule, __________ spread in Russia at a time when it was dying out in the rest of Europe. |
| Hohenzollern's | The ruling dynastic family of Prussia is the ______________ |
| Romanov | The rise of the first ___________ tsar restored a measure of order, but Russia remained a medieval state. |
| Boyars | What were the wealthy and land owning nobles of Russia known as? |
| Protestant | In Prussia, the Reformation gained popularity. As a result, the state emerged as a new and strong ________________ power. |
| Peter the Great | Who was the first Romanov Tsar? |
| Peter the Great | _____ ___ ______ had these characteristics: Uneducated but curious, ruthless and a hot temper, and passionate and hard-working |
| Petersburg | Peter used the serf's to serve his government projects, forcing them to become soldiers, or work as laborers building roads, canals or new a new capital city of St. ______________. |
| Germany | The fighting of the Thirty Years' War in Europe, left this country divided into more than 360 separate states & destroyed the farming land. |
| Maria Theresa | In the early 1700s, the Austrian Emperor Charles VI faced an inheritance crisis- he had no male heir. Who was his daughter? |
| Depopulation | The fighting of the Thirty Years' War led to severe _____________, or reduction in population. |
| Electors | The states of the Holy Roman Empire were ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor, who was chosen by seven of the leading German princes, called __________ |
| Germany | Peter the Great's successors in the Romanov dynasty were ineffective rulers. The next 'great' ruler would be Catherine, what country was she from? |
| Peter III | A German princess by birth, Catherine came to Russia at the age of 15 to wed the heir to the Russian throne, ___________. |
| Junkers | What were the wealthy and land owning nobles in Prussia called? |
| Catholic | The Hapsburg's in the Austro- Hungarian Empire were what religion? |
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