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The Power of Spain
Absolute Monarchs Unit Elcho
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a ruler whose power was not limited by having to consult with nobles, common people, or their representatives | absolute monarch |
| the concept that monarchs received their power from God and therefore must not be challenged | divine right |
| King of Spain; Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1558; his opposition to the Protestant Reformation embroiled Spain in a series of wars throughout his reign. | Charles V |
| signed in 1555, gave each German prince the right to decide whether his state would be Catholic or Protestant | Peace of Augsburg |
| king of Spain, he led Roman Catholic efforts to recover parts of Europe from Protestantism. He was defeated by England and the Netherlands | Philip II |
| Greek painter in Spain; chiefly religious in nature, his works express the spirit of the Counter Reformation. His style is famous for elongated figures | El Greco |
| Spanish painter who created masterpieces that portrayed people with great dignity, was also the court painter (worked for king) | Diego Velazquez |
| wrote Don Quixote de la Mancha, Spanish writer | Miguel de Cervantes |
| a Mexican nun known for writing poetry, prose, and plays and believed in providing education rights for women | Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz |
| a fleet of 130 ships and 20,000 soldiers and sailors that was defeated by the English in 1588 | Spanish Armada |
| French, Calvinist Protestant | Huguenot |
| a killing of Huguenots in Paris, ordered by the Catholic queen in 1572 (10,000 to 70,000 killed) | St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre |
| the granting of limited freedom of worship to Huguenot in France by Henry IV | Edict of Nantes |
| Catholic churchman who became the most trusted adviser of King Louis XIII | Cardinal Richelieu |
| became king of France at a very young age, his mother ruled as regent for a time, was a relatively weak king with a strong adviser | Louis XIII |
| was a Huguenot, but became a Catholic in order to become king of France | Henry IV |
| the best example of an absolute monarch, the sun king, limited the nobles' power and increased his own | Louis XIV |
| a war fought over the Spanish throne between France and the Dutch, English, and Holy Roman Empire | War of Spanish Succession |
| the agreement that ended the War of Spanish Succession; it gave the Spanish throne to Louis XIV's grandson and stated that France and Spain would never be ruled by the same monarch | Treaty of Utrecht |
| Puritans | group that wanted to further reform the Church of England, Protestant Calvinists |
| Charles I | English king who had many conflicts with Parliament over money, first European monarch to be executed |
| Royalists | supporters of Charles I in the English Civil War |
| commonwealth | a republican form of government based on the common good of all people |
| Oliver Cromwell | a republican form of government based on the common good of all people |
| Restoration | when Parliament met and decided to bring back the monarchy after the death of the Cromwells |
| Charles II | king of England brought back in the Restoration, had mixed success as a king |
| James II | Catholic brother of Charles II who became king when Charles II died, not a popular king |
| William and Mary | Protestant daughter of James II and her husband, they were invited to rule England by a group of nobles |
| Glorious Revolution | William and Mary become monarchs of England, James II fled to France knowing it was pointless to fight (change in leadership without war or bloodshed) |
| constitutional monarchy | a monarchy limited by law |
| Thomas Hobbes | a royalist who wrote Leviathan in which he described people as selfish and fearful, needing a strong monarch to tell them how to live |
| boyars | landowners in Russia |
| czar | word that was equivalent to emperor in Russia |
| Ivan IV | had a good period and bad period; he expanded Russian territory but went mad later becoming paranoid |
| Peter the Great | reformer of Russia, tried to westernize and modernize the country, had St. Petersburg built after taking land from Sweden |
| Catherine the Great | Czarina of Russia, continued Peter's reforms of westernization |
| Thirty Years' War | began as a religious dispute, fought over religious difference between Protestants and Catholics among powerful dynasties |
| Peace of Westphalia | agreement ending the Thirty Years' War, it reduced the power of the Holy Roman Emperor and added to religious tolerance |
| Maria Theresa | Hapsburg heiress to the Austrian throne, was threatened and attacked by Prussia, Spain, France and two German states in the War of Austrian Succession |
| Frederick the Great | leader of Prussia, involved in both the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War, Hohenzollern family dynasty, made Prussia a strong military power |
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