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The Growing Power of Western Europe-brittany,essence,madison,ben

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Wanted to ban Catholics from being in the government or being king   Parliament  
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King of England. Didnt's have any kids so his Catholic brother James II became king after him   Charles II  
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Contreversial Catholic King of England.   James II  
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Catholic king of France. Wanted James II to stay as the king of England   Louis XIV  
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James II's protestant daughter. Became queen.   Mary  
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Married Mary and became king after James II.   William III of Orange  
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Renewed legislation act against dissenters. Allowed Catholics to serve in government or i the army or navy.   The Test Act  
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Were exclusionists. Most suspicious of the king, Catholics, and French   Whigs  
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Party of less aristocracy and gentry. Suspicious of the "money interest" in London. Loyal to the church and king   Tories  
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the events of 1688 came to be known as the...   Glorious Revolution  
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Was the weak spot in the French monarchy.   Finance  
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were part of catholicism that Louis XIV didnt like.   Jansenists  
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Was a society in which groups of many kinds could identify their own special interests with those of the "absolute" monarchy   Old Regime  
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was Louis XIV's great minister   Colbert  
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Why did Louis XIV's people turn against him?   the strain of his incessant war  
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What was an accomplishment of Louis XIV?   He ended civil war and advanced the cause of civil equality.  
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Improved communications by building roads and canals, he helped to find colonies, built up the navy, and establsihed the French East India Company.   Colbert's Commercial Code  
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Wanted control of the whole army, and every person in France.   Louis XIV  
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When was the Edict Of Nantes revoked?   1685  
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What was a main problem during the triumph of Absolutism?   Peasants were heavily taxed, while the rich didn't get taxed as much.  
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absolute monarch of France "sun king"   Louis XIV  
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palace built for Louis XIV   Versailles  
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produced a notable school of painters   Nicholas Poussin & Claude Lorrain  
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wrote austere tragedies   Corneille & Racine  
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comedies   Moliere  
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fables   La Fontaine  
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Mathematician & Scientific thinker   Descartes  
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where nobles & artists met, foreigners were welcomed. spread of ideas   salons  
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courts of law   parlements  
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fench civil war. parlements wanted power   The Fronde  
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quote by Louis XIV meaning he was "the state" & had power over everything   "L'etat, C'est moi"  
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In the 1600s only four or five million people in England and Lowland Scotland spoke this language   English  
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Settled Jamestown in 1607   Members of the Church of England  
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Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear   William Shakespeare  
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Woolens   Main export in England  
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Divine right of kings   James I, declared that kings drew their authority from God and were responsible to God alone.  
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James VI of Scotland   Mary Stuart's son, and a descendant of Henry VII inherited the crown of England .  
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Two houses of Parliament   House of Lords and House of Commons  
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Ship- Money dispute   Charles I wanted to have the whole counrty pay for the navy, not just the coastal towns.  
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Thomas Fairfax   Commander of the New Model Army  
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King Charles   codemned for treason and set to death on the scaffold in 1649.  
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Pride's Purge   Cromwell left Parliament with 50-60 members. 500 members in 1640, 150 members in 1649.  
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Founded Quakers   George Fox  
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Bank of Amsterdam   Dutch founded and regulated money. Also, depositors where allowed to draw checks against there accounts.  
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Stadholder   Elected military leader of the "state."  
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William of Orange   (William III) later became the King of England  
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Christian Huygens   Worked mainly in physics & math & also improved the telescope  
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Baroque   Artistic style that deals with lighting, interior spaces, and colors.  
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New York   After the series of wars between the Dutch and English, the English annexed New Amsterdam and renamed it New York.  
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The Geographer   Painted by Jan Vermeer. Shows the impact on Europe of the opening of the Atlantic.  
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Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window   Painted by Jan Vermeer.  
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Religious Toleration   The Jews were actually tolerated and so were the Arminians  
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Anna Maria van Schurman   Wrote "The Learned Maid or Whether a Maid May Be Called a Scholar" which developed an argument for education of women.  
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