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Absolutism, Cons 2
The Rest of Europe And Art
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A long war through the mid 17th-century between two neighboring countries over Mantua. | French-Spanish War |
| The treaty ending the French-Spanish War and forcing Spain to cede much territory to France. | Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) |
| Miguel Cervantes's famous work about a delusional nobleman who thinks himself a knight-errant. | Don Quixote |
| An artistic off-shot of the baroque movement that used elongated bodies, intense colors, and other methods to express emotion and drama. | Mannerism |
| Foremost Spanish artist of Mannerism. Painted "View of Toledo" and the "Burial of the Count of Orgaz." | El Greco |
| Spanish painter of "Las Meninas" and "The Surrender of Breda" | Diego Velazquez |
| Italian Mannerist who painted "The Last Supper" (Hint: Not Da Vinci!) | Tintoretto |
| A French artistic movement that emphasized Greek and Roman culture | French Classicism |
| French classicist painter of such works as "A Dance to the Music of Time" | Pousin |
| France's primary artistic institute, formed in 1795 | French Academy of Arts |
| Dutch baroque painter of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "View of Delft" | Vermeer |
| Dutch baroque painter of works like "Belshazzar's Feast," "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp," and "Night Watch" | Rembrandt |
| Painted the series of Christ Ascending to, and Descending from, the Cross. Not to be confused with the dude who plays P.W Herman | Rubens |
| Painter of "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa" | Bernini |
| The federal assembly of the Netherlands that handled foreign affairs but lacked sovereignty. | States General |
| Representatives of the States General chosen for each province. | Stadholders |
| A period during the 17th century when the Dutch were at the head of the scientific and artistic world. They've apparently been downhill ever since. | Dutch Golden Age |
| Famous French philosopher who wrote "Meditations on First Philosophy" and asserted "Cogito ergo sum" | Descartes |
| Dutch astronomer, one of the first to posit the wave theory of light. | Huygens |
| Dutch biologist who first saw single-celled organisms, considered the father of microbiology. | van Leeuwenhoek |
| Muslim dynasty centered in Turkey that had its peak between the 16th and 17th centuries. | Ottoman Empire |
| The man under whom the Ottoman Empire saw its zenith. Father of "Selim the Halfway Decent" | Suleiman the Magnificent |
| Suleiman made various attempts to take this city by siege. | Vienna |
| One of the ancestral homes of the Magyars. Occupied by the Ottoman Empire following the Battle of Mohacs | Hungary |
| Eastern European nation located on the present-day Czech Republic, the site of the beginning of the Thirty Years War. | Bohemia |
| Three days per week of unpaid labor for Bohemian serfs. | Robot |
| Rules proclaiming that the Habsburg possessions were never to be divided, even if a woman took the throne. | Pragmatic Sanctions |
| Holy Roman Empire who failed to gain absolute control over Hungary and crowned his daughter as his successor in 1740. | Charles VI |
| A family of German nobility who ruled Prussia, Germany, and Romania. | Hohenzollern |
| The man who consolidated Brandenburg and Prussia into an organized militaristic state in the late 17th century. | Frederick William "The Great Elector" |
| The organization set up by Frederick William to support and levy taxes for the new Prussian army | General War Commissariat |
| General name given to the territories held by Frederick William | The Estates |
| The nobility and landowning classes of Prussia and Brandenburg | Junkers |
| The son of Frederick William who created a strong Prussian military and established strong absolutist rule in Prussia | Frederick William I "The Soldier's King" |
| Prior to the 20th century this name was given to the Polish parliament as a whole | Sejm |
| A Polish legislative device that allowed any member of Sejm to end a session and nullify all legislation passed. | Liberum veto |
| A famous King of Poland and Lithuania who defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna. | Jan Sobieski |
| The Church formed as a result of the Great Schism with the Catholic Church. | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| The name given to the Mongol army that controlled Kiev between the 13th and 15th centuries | The Golden Horde |
| The highest-ranking Russian nobles | Boyars |
| One of the first Muscovite princes to openly challenge the Golden Horde's supremacy in Kiev. | Ivan III |
| The conquest of this city by Mehmed II's Ottomans spelled the true end of the Byzantine Empire. | Constantinople |
| A notoriously cruel Russian, the first to adopt the name csar | Ivan IV |
| The first Russian soldiers equipped with firearms, organized by Ivan the Terrible. | Streltsy |
| The period of unrest following the death of Ivan IV's successor Fyodor when various nobles contended for the crown. | Time of Troubles |
| The man eventually chosen as Fyodor's successor. | Michael Romanov |
| The name given to Russian serfs who abandoned their farms and formed outlaw armies and independent communities in the South and East of Russia | Cossacks |
| The man who led a major Cossack rebellion against tsarist Russia beginning in 1670 | Stenka Razin |
| An Eastern Orthodox Patriarch who sought to force the Russian Orthodox Church to comply with Greek Orthodox religious practices | Nikon |
| Russian peasants who refused to comply with Nikon's edicts | Old Believers |
| A famous Tsar who sought to build the Russian state and apply lessons from Western Europe to his own nation | Peter the Great |
| A Russian delegation that traveled to Europe in search of aid against the Ottomans and enabled Peter to study the techniques of highly effective nations | Grand Embassy |
| The new meritocratic order of precedence for boyars under Peter the Great. | Table of Ranks |
| A conflict between Russia and Sweden that saw a Russian defeat at Narva but Russia's victory ultimately became evident following its 1709 victory at Poltava | Great Northern War |
| The ambitious young Swedish King who routed Peter's forces at Narva | Charles XII |
| The treaty ending the Great Northern War | Treaty of Nystadt |
| Construction began on this city in 1702 and shortly thereafter it replaced Moscow as Russia's capital | St. Petersburg |
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