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chap 5 and 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| phillip 2 | was the king of portugal and had inherited spain, american colonies, and the spanish netherlands |
| el greco | an artist during the age of spanish art and literature |
| rembrandt van rijn | dutch artist who was famous 4 his paintings of wealthy middle class merchants |
| absolute monarchs | were kings or queens who held all the power within their states boundries |
| divine right | is the idea that God created the monarchy and that the monarch acted as God's representitives on earth |
| edict of nantes | was a declaration of religious tolerence between the huguenots and france |
| cardinal richelieu | louis XII minister who increased power in the monarchy |
| skepticism | is the idea that nothing can ever be known for certain |
| louis XII | most powerful french ruler who weakened the power of the nobles and increased the power of the government agents |
| intendants | government agents who collected taxes and administered justice for louis XIV |
| jean baptiste colbert | louiS XVI misiter of financewho tried to make self-sufficient |
| war of the spanish succesion | after the french and spanish thrones unite in 1700 people became scared of what might come out of this |
| treaty of utrecht | ended the war of spanish succession and it said that louis grandson was supposed to remain king as long as the thrones of spain and france are not united |
| thirty years war | a conflict over religious and territory and for power among European ruling famalies |