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Monarchs of Europe
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a territory; power to rule and make law with no legal explanation | Sovereignty |
| unlimited right to control everything and every kind of activity in its territory.; not restricted by a constitution, by the laws of its predecessors, or by custom, and no areas of law or behavior are reserved as being outside it control. | Absolutism |
| principle in which countries have equal strength in order to prevent any one country from dominating others. | Balance of Power |
| order issued by Henry IV; it guaranteed freedom of worship and political rights | Edict of Nantes |
| Chief minister of Louis XIII who worked to centralize and strengthen central government | Cardinal Richelieu |
| Protestant rebellion against the Holy Roman Empire | Thirty Years War |
| Ended Thirty Years War, gave Alsace to France and independence to Netherlands, Switzerland, German Princes | Treaty of Westphalia |
| The Sun King who said "L'etat, c'est moi.", built Versailles | Louis XIV |
| Treaty that ended War of Spanish Succession | Treaty of Utrecht |
| War fought over who would become next king of Spain (Louis XIV's grandson) | War of Spanish Succession |
| Ruler of Russia; Russian for Caesar | Czar |
| Czar who built St. Petersburg and modernized Russia | Peter the Great |
| War that began when Frederick II of Prussia seized the lands (Silesia) of Maria Theresa (Hapsburg Austria) | War of Austrian Succession |
| a major reversal of alliances that occurred after War of Austrian Succession | Diplomatic Revolution |
| war which began as the French && Indian war in North America; involved major alliances of European powers; ended with Treaty of Paris 1763 | 7 years War |
| treaty which ended Seven Years War (French && Indian War); gave France's territories in North America and India to England; Prussia kept Silesia | Treaty of Paris |
| English king who established Anglican Church | Henry VIII |
| daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon; Catholic queen who was known as "Bloody Mary" | Mary I |
| daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; responsible for defeating Spanish | |
| Spanish navy | Spanish Armada |
| one of two House of Parliament; made up of nobles and clergy | House of Lords |
| one of two Houses of Parliament; made up of gentry (landowners) and burgesses (merchants and professionals) | House of Commons |
| Belief that God chooses kings to rule nations | Divine Right of Kings |
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