Absolutism, Cons 2 Word Scramble

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A long war through the mid 17th-century between two neighboring countries over Mantua.	French-Spanish War
The treaty ending the French-Spanish War and forcing Spain to cede much territory to France.	Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659)
Miguel Cervantes's famous work about a delusional nobleman who thinks himself a knight-errant.	Don Quixote
An artistic off-shot of the baroque movement that used elongated bodies, intense colors, and other methods to express emotion and drama.	Mannerism
Foremost Spanish artist of Mannerism. Painted "View of Toledo" and the "Burial of the Count of Orgaz."	El Greco
Spanish painter of "Las Meninas" and "The Surrender of Breda"	Diego Velazquez
Italian Mannerist who painted "The Last Supper" (Hint: Not Da Vinci!)	Tintoretto
A French artistic movement that emphasized Greek and Roman culture	French Classicism
French classicist painter of such works as "A Dance to the Music of Time"	Pousin
France's primary artistic institute, formed in 1795	French Academy of Arts
Dutch baroque painter of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "View of Delft"	Vermeer
Dutch baroque painter of works like "Belshazzar's Feast," "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp," and "Night Watch"	Rembrandt
Painted the series of Christ Ascending to, and Descending from, the Cross. Not to be confused with the dude who plays P.W Herman	Rubens
Painter of "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa"	Bernini
The federal assembly of the Netherlands that handled foreign affairs but lacked sovereignty.	States General
Representatives of the States General chosen for each province.	Stadholders
A period during the 17th century when the Dutch were at the head of the scientific and artistic world. They've apparently been downhill ever since.	Dutch Golden Age
Famous French philosopher who wrote "Meditations on First Philosophy" and asserted "Cogito ergo sum"	Descartes
Dutch astronomer, one of the first to posit the wave theory of light.	Huygens
Dutch biologist who first saw single-celled organisms, considered the father of microbiology.	van Leeuwenhoek
Muslim dynasty centered in Turkey that had its peak between the 16th and 17th centuries.	Ottoman Empire
The man under whom the Ottoman Empire saw its zenith. Father of "Selim the Halfway Decent"	Suleiman the Magnificent
Suleiman made various attempts to take this city by siege.	Vienna
One of the ancestral homes of the Magyars. Occupied by the Ottoman Empire following the Battle of Mohacs	Hungary
Eastern European nation located on the present-day Czech Republic, the site of the beginning of the Thirty Years War.	Bohemia
Three days per week of unpaid labor for Bohemian serfs.	Robot
Rules proclaiming that the Habsburg possessions were never to be divided, even if a woman took the throne.	Pragmatic Sanctions
Holy Roman Empire who failed to gain absolute control over Hungary and crowned his daughter as his successor in 1740.	Charles VI
A family of German nobility who ruled Prussia, Germany, and Romania.	Hohenzollern
The man who consolidated Brandenburg and Prussia into an organized militaristic state in the late 17th century.	Frederick William "The Great Elector"
The organization set up by Frederick William to support and levy taxes for the new Prussian army	General War Commissariat
General name given to the territories held by Frederick William	The Estates
The nobility and landowning classes of Prussia and Brandenburg	Junkers
The son of Frederick William who created a strong Prussian military and established strong absolutist rule in Prussia	Frederick William I "The Soldier's King"
Prior to the 20th century this name was given to the Polish parliament as a whole	Sejm
A Polish legislative device that allowed any member of Sejm to end a session and nullify all legislation passed.	Liberum veto
A famous King of Poland and Lithuania who defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna.	Jan Sobieski
The Church formed as a result of the Great Schism with the Catholic Church.	Eastern Orthodox Church
The name given to the Mongol army that controlled Kiev between the 13th and 15th centuries	The Golden Horde
The highest-ranking Russian nobles	Boyars
One of the first Muscovite princes to openly challenge the Golden Horde's supremacy in Kiev.	Ivan III
The conquest of this city by Mehmed II's Ottomans spelled the true end of the Byzantine Empire.	Constantinople
A notoriously cruel Russian, the first to adopt the name csar	Ivan IV
The first Russian soldiers equipped with firearms, organized by Ivan the Terrible.	Streltsy
The period of unrest following the death of Ivan IV's successor Fyodor when various nobles contended for the crown.	Time of Troubles
The man eventually chosen as Fyodor's successor.	Michael Romanov
The name given to Russian serfs who abandoned their farms and formed outlaw armies and independent communities in the South and East of Russia	Cossacks
The man who led a major Cossack rebellion against tsarist Russia beginning in 1670	Stenka Razin
An Eastern Orthodox Patriarch who sought to force the Russian Orthodox Church to comply with Greek Orthodox religious practices	Nikon
Russian peasants who refused to comply with Nikon's edicts	Old Believers
A famous Tsar who sought to build the Russian state and apply lessons from Western Europe to his own nation	Peter the Great
A Russian delegation that traveled to Europe in search of aid against the Ottomans and enabled Peter to study the techniques of highly effective nations	Grand Embassy
The new meritocratic order of precedence for boyars under Peter the Great.	Table of Ranks
A conflict between Russia and Sweden that saw a Russian defeat at Narva but Russia's victory ultimately became evident following its 1709 victory at Poltava	Great Northern War
The ambitious young Swedish King who routed Peter's forces at Narva	Charles XII
The treaty ending the Great Northern War	Treaty of Nystadt
Construction began on this city in 1702 and shortly thereafter it replaced Moscow as Russia's capital	St. Petersburg

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