Question 1

Inflation

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A rapid increase in prices

Question 2

Edict of Nantes

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French grant of rights to Huguenots

Question 3

A fleet of ships

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Armada

Question 4

The Act of Supremacy

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Who named Elizabeth governor of state and church

Question 5

Heretic

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One who does not conform to established doctrine

Question 6

Leviathan

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Hobbes's name for the state, which he believed needed an absolute ruler with unlimited power

Question 7

Natural rights

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Specific rights that cannot be taken away

Question 8

Roundheads

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Supporters of Parliament in the English Civil War

Question 9

Puritans

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English Protestants who felt that the Church of England needed further reform and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship

Question 10

Divine Right of Kings

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The belief that the ruler gets his power from God and not his subjects

Question 11

Absolutism

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The idea that rulers hold total power

Question 12

Versailles

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Location of Louis XIV's court

Question 13

Czar

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Russian word for caesar

Question 14

Junkers

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Members of the Prussian landed aristocracy

Question 15

Boyars

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Members of the Russian nobility

Question 16

Mannerism

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Artistic movement that marked the end of the Renaissance

Question 17

Bernini

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Greatest sculptor and architect of the baroque period

Question 18

Baroque

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Artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements

Question 19

Cervantes

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Wrote greatest literary work of the golden age of Spanish Literature

Question 20

El Greco

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Artist whose paintings represented the high point of Mannerism, reflecting the religious upheavals of the reformation

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