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show King from 1643–1715. The first absolutist king. He consolidated the military, placing it directly under his control.  
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show Playwright who wrote comedies who mocked the nobles, bourgeois, and doctors.  
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La Fontaine   show
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show Discourse on Method.  
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show Literary theorist who urged writers to emulate ancient artists, and not concentrate on frivolities of daily life.  
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show First of the Bourbon line of kings, Louis XIV’s grandfather  
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show Regent for Louis XIII, Louis XIV’s father  
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Cardinal Mazarin   show
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Bishop Bossuet   show
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show Financial minister for Louis, wanting France to be a self-sufficing economic unit. Very mercantilist. Reduced internal taxes, and set up a free-trade area called the Five Great Farms.  
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show A rebellion against Cardinal Mazarin. Caused by the Parlement of Paris insisting on their right to pronounce certain edicts unconstitutional. The nobility alienated their allies by calling in Spanish troops and degenerated  
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show The largest free-trade area in Europe. Roughly the size of England.  
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show Regulated business. He required good to be a of a certain quality, gave subsidies to cloth workers. The Code was long a model of business practice and regulation  
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Revocation of the Edict of Nantes   show
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Estates General   show
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Provincial Estates   show
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show Courts of law, each being the supreme court for a part of the country  
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show Holy Roman Emperor (HRE is div b/w pro-French/anti-French)  
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Triple Alliance   show
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League of Augsburg   show
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show 1688-France vs. League of Augsburg, France defeated--> 1697- Peace at Ryswick-Doesn't change much  
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show 1702- France vs. HRE (and Grand Alliance) for inheritance of Spanish throne Peace of Utrecht/Peace of Rastadt- 1713/1714, England made most gains-French/Span thrones can't be inherited by same person  
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“Germanic Liberties”   show
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“ius eundi in partes,”   show
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show like the emperor, had no power, but it kept meeting from 1663 to 1806.  
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Poland proper (the Kingdom of Poland) and ______   show
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Szlachta   show
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show allowed Polish Diet to disband, or “explode,” the diet if they disagreed with what happened.  
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show stolen Christian children raised as Muslim warriors  
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show The pope summoned states of the HRE to this and finally got something done by raising an army, under the leadership of the rising Austrian power, which drove away Turks  
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show continued to be Holy Roman Emperors after the 30-years War, used resources from outside Germany to maintain influences over German princes  
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Louis XIV messes with the HRE by....   show
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show financed the Christian force fighting the Turks, which was commanded by Habsburg general, Duke Charles of Lorraine  
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John Sobieski   show
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Prince Eugene of Savoy   show
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Charles VI of Austria   show
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Peace of Karlowitz   show
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show (1739)-eastern frontier drawn for Austria  
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show Habsburg government developed a seaport here to open a window on Mediterranean  
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Pragmatic Sanction   show
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Gustavus Adolphus   show
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Charles XII of Sweden   show
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Frederick William (The Great Elector)   show
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show He was the emperor of Germany and king of Prussia (Mar.–June 1888), son and successor of William I. a liberal and a patron of art and learning. He was popular, and much good was expected of his reign, but he died soon after his accession.  
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Frederick William I of Prussia   show
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Frederick II (Frederick the Great)   show
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show (1717-1780) She was the archduchess of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, and queen of Hungary and Bohemia. She was also one of the most successful Habsburg rulers. She was allowed to rule due to the Pragmatic Sanction.  
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show Peter the Great’s son, promised to restore the old ways when he took the throne, executed by Peter  
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Ivan III   show
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Ivan the Terrible   show
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Michael Romanov   show
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show tsar 1682-1725, Westernized Russia and adopted many of Europe’s institutions as he sought to create an absolute monarchy. Put church under government control, got ports from Sweden  
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show lead peasant revolt 1667-1671 in response to increase in serf-itude, rampaged around Russia and the Caspian until finally put down  
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show Russians lose this battle to the Swedes and see the need to reform their army  
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show Swedish army forced to endure the Russian winter then met and overwhelmed here, except the king and some survivors, the army was destroyed  
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show Tsar’s council of retainers and advisors, replaced by Peter  
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show committee of bishops that replaced the Russian patriarch  
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show Peter’s replacements for the duma and the national assemblies, dependant on him  
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Northern War   show
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Procurator of the Holy Synod   show
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show (1584-1613) time after Ivan’s death, series of tsars, Romanovs finally establish themselves  
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show 1721, ends the war between Russia and Sweden, Russia is granted parts of the Baltic shore.  
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Streltsi   show
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Catherine II (The Great) + Poland=   show
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show A former lover of Catherine. His election as king of Poland was secured by Catherine in 1763; she planned to use him as a Russian puppet.  
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Thaddeus Kosciuszko   show
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show It precipitated the War of the Polish Succession. After these, in the 1730’s, a reform movement began to gather strength in Poland.  
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First Partition   show
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show A new Polish constitution produced by reformers. It made kingship hereditary, strengthened the executive power, and reduced the power of the great magnates  
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show 1793 This occurred after Catherine’s army with help from Prussia was sent into Poland to destroy the constitution of 1791 as a way to fight the influence of Jacobinism.  
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Third Partition   show
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Boettcher   show
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show built up vast plantations and slaveholdings in Santo Domingo. He then became a leading banker in Paris and funded several French wars. He financed the storming of the Bastille and the French Revolution, but was guillotined in 1794.  
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show commercial enterprises that sought to capitalize on trade with America and the East. “Indies” in the early 1700s was still a general term for the vast regions overseas.  
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show the region (presently Ghana) in Africa along the Gulf of Guinea where the Europeans mined for gold to trade with Asia.  
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show Fat Middle Aged German becomes King of England  
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Cardinal Fleury   show
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Robert Walpole   show
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show Another Enlightened monarch. His regent is Duke of Orleans  
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The Pretender   show
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show economic advisor to France, flees France after bubble bursts.  
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