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European State Consolidation in 17 and 18th c

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What 5 states came to dominate european politics   Great Britain, France, Austria, Prussia, Russia  
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What 7 european powers were on the decline   Spain, portugal, netherlands, poland, sweden, ottoman empire  
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how did the united provinces of netherlands become a nation   after successfully revolting against spain in 1572  
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what happened in 1672   french armies of Louis XIV invaded netherlands  
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who is prince william III of orange   stadtholder (hereditary chief) of the most important province Holland  
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How did the Netherlands differ from the rest of europe   other nations had monarchies, netherlands was a republic where states had power  
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Describe the netherlands religious policies   very tolerant, composed of many different religions  
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What 4 factors was Dutch economic achievement built upon?   Urban life, Farming Trade (fishing, textiles, shipping), Overseas Empire (gained control through spice trade in Asia)  
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What was the dutch east india company   monopolized spice trade in East Asia  
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What is a stadtholder   hereditary ruler of a dutch province  
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why did netherlands decline?   lost central authority and became disunited  
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2 models of government in england; france   parliamentary monarchy; absolutism  
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why did these models of government arise?   cost of warfare was high and only these types of governments succeeded in raising enough money  
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who was James I? describe political policies and religious policies   ruled after elizabeth, from scotland, wanted anglicanisms so faces problems with puritans and was anti-parliament  
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what was Charlies I view on parliament? what did he want for religion   anti, religious conformity  
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who did charles I engage in war with? did he win   Scotland; was defeated  
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what was the petition of right   parliament has to approve taxes, no unfair imprisonment, no quartering of troops in private homes  
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why did the english civil war start   parliament wouldnt give funds to charles's war in scotland, so he built his own army and parliament built their own army  
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2 factors that allowed parliament to win the civil war   alliance with scotland + leadership of oliver cromwell  
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what did englands gov become under oliver cromwell   strict puritan republic  
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what happened int charles II's Restoration in england   restored monarch authority over parliament, anglicanism  
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what was the treaty of dover   england and france ally against dutch and charles secretly said he would become catholic (to please french)  
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WHAT were the parliament/ religious policies of james II?   anti parliament, catholic  
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what was the glorious revolution   william of orange came to england and took over without a fight, james II fled  
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what was the result of the glorius revolution   protestants had more rights, power taken away from monarchy and given to people in bill of rights  
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what happened to england under walpole?   flourished economically, religious toleration, nobles were happy, parliament had balanced power, no large standing army  
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who were louis XIV's chief ministers   cardinal riechelieu and mazarin  
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what did the fronde teach louis XIV?   he needed to not have heavy handed policies but control by working with nobles  
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what were parlaments   judicial bodies that king consulted with to show he supported nobles  
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what image did louis's palace at versailles give him   strong, wealthy, absolute  
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who was bossuet?   louis's tutor who defended divine right of kings  
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what was jansenism?   anti jesuit, anti monarch, st augustines teaching that original sin condemned human kind, only grace of god could help  
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what was the revocation of the edict of nantes   louis took away protestant rights to unify france relgiously, didnt work bc protestants just left france  
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what were louis's early wars goals?   stop habsburgs and secure international borders  
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what was the war of devolution?   against spanish netherlands, got land in treaty of nijmwegen  
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what was the league of augsburg   alliance of england, spain, sweden, netherlands against france in 9 years war  
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what was the war of spanish succession   war over lands of habsburg empire where france fought everyone else and lost bc poor finance/weapons  
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What did the treaty of utrecht do?   france made peace with england and netherlands, got to keep philip V as kind of spain, england got mediterranean power,  
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what was the mississipi bubble   john law (financial advisor to king) had bad policies which led to inflation and missiissip bubble burst and french economy went down  
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who basically ruled after louis XIV died   Duke of orleans, the regent  
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what did duke of orleans do with parlements   renewed their authority  
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who was who in eastern europe dynasties   Habsburgs-austria, Hohenzollerns-prussia, romanov-russia  
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what did poland fail to do?   establish central government  
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what did habsburgs do well   establish territories all over europe + cooperating with nobles  
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what problem did habsburgs have?   couldnt unify because so many different cultures  
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what did charles VI pragmatic sanction do   established single line of inheritance for his daughter to rule the habsburg empire (bc was scared others would take power)  
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who was the great elector   frederick william who united prussian gov, gave it an army  
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who were the junkers   german noble landlords who obeyed hohenzollerns in exchange for power over serfs  
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what were the russian boyars   nobility who controlled gov before peter the great, peter tried to westernize them  
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what did peter's youth teach him   boyars/streltsy must be controlled and russian military power must increase  
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what was the great northern war   russian war against sweden to gain control in baltic, won  
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what was st petersburg   peter's version of versailles; showed his power + westernization  
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what were the colleges that peter made   instititutions that made laws all under his approval  
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what was the table of ranks   equated boyars social rank with gov rank to make them serve the gov  
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what were millets   units that ottoman sultans ruled through  
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what were jannisaries?   unit of elite chirstian boy troops raised as muslims  
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what were the ulama   islamic scholars who had political authority, very traditional  
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what 2 battles did the ottomans lose   battle of lepanto and siege of vienna  
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why did the ottoman empire decline?   lots of disunity and rivalry in gov, lost battles, became less advanced than other european nations due to isolation  
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what did charles II declaration of indulgences do   suspended all laws against catholics and protestants  
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