Unit 5

A government in which the king or queen has absolute power.

Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god.

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought

The war between the Catholics and the Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire

Members of the Prussian landed aristocracy, a class formerly associated with political reaction and militarism.

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.

Landowning nobles of Russia

policy of Peter the Great. Adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture

Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

A system of governing in which the ruler's power is limited by law.

group of officials who head government departments

Earth is the center of the Universe

The intellectual movement in Europe, initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics, that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.

Theory that the sun is at the center of the universe

A series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions.