France and England
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| When a state has a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force in a country. | show 🗑
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| A system where a monarch wields supreme power and claims to have to answer only to God. | show 🗑
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| A balance between governmental powers and the rights of a government's subjects. | show 🗑
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| show | Divine Right of Kings.
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| show | Commonwealth
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| show | Republican Government
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| A system central to feudalism in which people worked on a lord's lands in exchange for protection. | show 🗑
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| A King with limited powers. | show 🗑
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| show | Henry IV
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| show | The Duke of Sully
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| An annual fee paid by royal officials to guarantee heredity in their offices, introduced by Henry IV. | show 🗑
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| show | Louis XIII
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| show | Cardinal Richelieu
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| An office of royal commissioners begun under Richelieu | show 🗑
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| show | Nobility of the Robe
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| A Huguenot stronghold besieged by Catholic forces under Louis XIII between 1627 and 1628. | show 🗑
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| show | Academie francaise
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| show | Louis XIV (The Sun King)
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| A series of nobility uprisings between 1648 and 1653 over tax increases proposed by Mazarin and Louis XIV's mother Anne of Austria. | show 🗑
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| A path between the Atlantic and the French Mediterranean. | show 🗑
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| show | Versailles
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| Louis XIV's finance minister who sought to make France economically self-sufficient. | show 🗑
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| Government policies to regulate a nation's economic activities | show 🗑
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| Major French explorers of the New World who traveled up the Mississippi River and explored the Gulf of Mexico. | show 🗑
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| A religious revival particularly strong in France that emphasized a return to the early days of Christianity and accepted predestination. | show 🗑
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| show | Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
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| show | French Academy of Sciences
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| show | Moliere
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| Secretary of war under Louis XIV who worked to greatly expand the size of the French army. | show 🗑
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| A war in the 1670s conducted by Louis XIV which ended with France gaining territory in Franche-Comte and many Flemish towns. | show 🗑
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| The second of Louis XIV's three wars, it featured France arrayed against a strong alliance determined to curtail Louis ambitions and force him to give up Alsace and Lorraine. | show 🗑
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| A European-led coalition determined to stop Louis XIV, led by luminaries such as King William III and Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. | show 🗑
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| The treaty that ended the Nine Years' War and forced Louis to return Lorraine. | show 🗑
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| A war sparked by Louis Charles II's decision to bequeath the Spanish empire to Philip of Anjou, who would have also inherited the Spanish empire. | show 🗑
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| A sad, strange little King of Spain with many problems who touched off the War of Spanish Succession following his death. | show 🗑
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| show | Treaty of Utrecht
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| The last Tudor monarch of England, successor to Elizabeth I. | show 🗑
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| show | House of Commons
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| show | Gunpowder Plot
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| The son of James I whose supposed sympathies to Catholicism and baiting of the House of Commons led to his being overthrown from the English throne. | show 🗑
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| show | Petition of Right (1628)
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| show | Personal Rule
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| Strong religiously conservative Protestants in England who sought to eliminate Roman Catholic elements from the Anglican Church. | show 🗑
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| show | Archbishop William Laud
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| Practitioners of a religion created by John Knox. | show 🗑
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| show | Long Parliament
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| show | Grand Remonstrance
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| show | English Civil War
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| show | Interregnum
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| show | Oliver Cromwell
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| The Parliamentarian military forces organized by Thomas Fairfax and Cromwell. | show 🗑
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| show | Protectorate
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| The targeted arrest of numerous members of Parliament who had not fully supported the New Model Army. | show 🗑
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| show | Rump Parliament
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| The first written and codified constitution of England and the English-speaking world, composed in 1653. | show 🗑
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| show | Drogheda
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| show | Navigation Acts
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| show | The Restoration
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| The King who was restored. | show 🗑
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| A group containing such members as Buckingham and Clifford that acted as liaisons between Charles II and Parliament. | show 🗑
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| A series of laws enacted by Parliament to establish supremacy of the Anglican Church in England. | show 🗑
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| show | Habeas Corpus Act
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| An attempt by Charles II to grant liberty of religion to Protestant nonconformists in England. | show 🗑
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| A law passed by Parliament in place of the Declaration of Indulgence requiring public office holders to swear an oath of loyalty to the Anglican Church. | show 🗑
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| The conflict between Parliamentarians over Charles II's choice as a successor | show 🗑
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| A fake conspiracy devised by Titus Oakes claiming that Catholics sought to execute Charles II. | show 🗑
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| show | Great Plague of London and Great Fire of London
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| show | Anglo-Dutch Wars
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| show | British East India Company
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| The successor to Charles II. (Hint: NOT Charles III.) | show 🗑
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| show | Monmouth Rebellion
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| James II's attempt to grant Catholics in England freedom of religion. | show 🗑
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| show | Glorious Revolution 1688
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| show | Bill of Rights (1689)
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| show | Leviathan
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| A treatise by Locke calling for a society based on natural rights. | show 🗑
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| show | Act of Toleration
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| show | Jacobite Rebellions
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| The system established in 1694 to act like the English government's banker. | show 🗑
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| show | Grand Alliance
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| A law passed by Parliament that sought to determine Protestant succession to the English throne. | show 🗑
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| Daughter of James II who followed William III on the throne. | show 🗑
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| A famous general who fought during the War of Spanish Succession and won victories for England at Oudenarde and Malplaquet. | show 🗑
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| A famous battle of the Spanish Succession where the Duke of Marlborough prevented Louis XIV from taking Vienna. | show 🗑
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| show | Act of Settlement
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| The Royal House who ascended to the English throne following the Act of Settlement. The Georges were members of it. | show 🗑
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| Considered to be England's first prime minister. He led the country during the War of Spanish Succession. | show 🗑
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