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Absolute Monarchs

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  • Q1
    A system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power
    Absolute Monarch
    30s
  • Q2
    Belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from god.
    Divine Right
    30s
  • Q3
    1598 proclamation that recognized Catholicism as the official religion of France but also gave the Huguenots the right to worship and to enjoy all political privileges
    Edict of Nantes
    30s
  • Q4
    An official appointed by French king Louis XIV to govern the provinces, collect taxes, and recruit soldiers
    Intendant
    30s
  • Q5
    A conflict, lasting from 1701 to 1713, in which a number of European states fought to prevent the Bourbon family from controlling Spain as well as France.
    War of Spanish Succession
    30s
  • Q6
    (1618-48) A series of European wars that were partially a Catholic-Protestant religious conflict. It was primarily a battle between France and their rivals the Hapsburg's, rulers of the Holy Roman Empire.
    Thirty Years War
    30s
  • Q7
    Fought between France/Russia and Prussia- Frederick kept fighting against heavy odds and was saved when Peter III took Russian throne and called off the war.
    Seven Years War
    30s
  • Q8
    Land owning aristocracy in early Russia.
    Boyar
    30s
  • Q9
    Policy of Peter the Great. Adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture.
    Westernization
    30s
  • Q10
    War between Cavaliers and Roundheads, fought to end absolutism.
    English Civil War
    30s
  • Q11
    The return of the Stuart monarchy (1660) after the period of republican government under Cromwell which was, in fact, a military dictatorship
    Restoration
    30s
  • Q12
    A constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
    Habeas Corpus
    30s
  • Q13
    A reference to the political events of 1688-1689, when James II abdicated his throne and was replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband, Prince William of Orange.
    Glorious Revolution
    30s
  • Q14
    A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution.
    Constitutional Monarchy
    30s
  • Q15
    A group consisting of puritans, country land owners, and town based manufacturers, led by Oliver Cromwell; fought against the Cavaliers during the English civil war
    Roundheads
    30s

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