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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| show | Absolutism
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| A balance between governmental powers and the rights of a government's subjects. | show 🗑
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| The belief that a King is God's chosen instrument on Earth and answerable to God alone | show 🗑
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| show | Commonwealth
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| show | Republican Government
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| show | Serfdom
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| show | Administrative Monarch
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| The first King of the Bourbon dynasty who converted to Catholicism to become King of France. | show 🗑
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| show | The Duke of Sully
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| show | Paulette
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| A French monarch strongly influenced by a certain Cardinal, who led his nation through the Thirty Years War. | show 🗑
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| The aforementioned Cardinal who dominated Louis XIII's royal council and helped consolidate royal power. Also founded the Academie Francaise. | show 🗑
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| show | Intendants
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| Judicial nobility | show 🗑
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| show | La Rochelle
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| show | Academie francaise
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| The embodiment of French absolutism, and longest-serving European monarch, who revoked the Edict of Nantes | show 🗑
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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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| show | Canal des Deux Mers
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| show | Versailles
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| show | Jean-Baptiste Colbert
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| show | Mercantilism
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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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| show | Jansenism
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| show | Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
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| An organization formed under Louis XIV's reign to promote French scientific research. | show 🗑
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| show | Moliere
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| show | Marquis de Louvois
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| show | Dutch War (1672-1678)
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| show | Nine Years' War
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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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| show | Treaty of Ryswick
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| show | War of Spanish Succession
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| show | Charles II
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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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| One branch of England's bicameral parliament that controlled taxation and was originally filled with knights and burgesses. | show 🗑
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| A clandestine collusion conjured up by a cadre of Catholics led by Guy Fawkes to blow up Parliament | show 🗑
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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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| Thought not the Magna Carta, this document set out to define the rights of English subjects, such as Parliament's authority to tax. | show 🗑
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| The period between 1629 and 1640 when Charles I ruled without Parliament's consent or input. | show 🗑
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| show | Puritans
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| A clergyman who sought to impose complex Catholic-influenced rituals on the Church of England, raising some ire. | show 🗑
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| show | Scottish Presbyterians
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| The Parliament that served between 1640 and 1660 and did much to limit Charles I's power. | show 🗑
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| show | Grand Remonstrance
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| A conflict between Parliamentary and Royalist forces that ended with a victory for the Parliamentarians. | show 🗑
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| Another name for the period between Charles I's execution and Charles II's ascension to the throne. | show 🗑
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| Leader of the Parliamentary forces and Lord Protector of England. | show 🗑
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| show | New Model Army
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| A name given to the ostensibly republican government of Cromwell. | show 🗑
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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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| The name given to the smaller Parliament after Pride's Purge that ordered Charles I's execution. | show 🗑
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| show | Instrument of Government
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| The site of a Cromwell-ordered massacre of rebelling Irish Catholics. | show 🗑
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| Laws requiring that English goods be transported on English ships. | show 🗑
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| show | The Restoration
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| show | Charles II
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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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| show | Clarendon Code
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| A law passed by Parliament strengthening the rule that people unlawfully detained cannot be prosecuted by a court of law. | show 🗑
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| show | Royal Declaration of Indulgence
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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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| show | Exclusion Crisis
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| show | Popish Plot
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| Two really bad days for England. | show 🗑
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| show | Anglo-Dutch Wars
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| show | British East India Company
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| show | James II
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| A 1685 attempt to overthrow James II, ended by the Battle of Sedgemoor. | show 🗑
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| James II's attempt to grant Catholics in England freedom of religion. | show 🗑
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| The bloodless deposition of James II | show 🗑
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| A document written by Parliament following the Glorious Revolution enumerating certain guarantees for all English citizens. | show 🗑
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| A philosophical work by Thomas Hobbes justifying Absolutism. | show 🗑
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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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| A series of uprisings determined to restore James II to the English throne. | show 🗑
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| show | Bank of England
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| A coalition headed in part by William of Orange against Louis XIV. | show 🗑
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| A law passed by Parliament that sought to determine Protestant succession to the English throne. | show 🗑
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| show | Queen Anne
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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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| show | Blenheim
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| An Act passed in 1700 that helped clarify rules of succession. | show 🗑
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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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