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15 Cards in this Set
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Electors
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Seven leading German Princes who chose the Holy Roman Emperor
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Ferdinand
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The Catholic Hapsburg king of Bohemia.
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War of Austrian Succession
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Frederick II of Prussia captured the Hapsburg province of Silesia; This started this 8 year war.
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Huguenots
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French Protestants.
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Mercenaries
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A person hired to fight for another country than their own.
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Prussia
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Protestant state created by the Hohenzollern rules because they united their holdings.
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Junkers
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Prussian Nobles.
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Partitions
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Divide up. Poland did this in 1772 to avoid fighting between the 3 monarchs.
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Frederick II
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Prussian Monarch who was a skilled general; he made the rest of the world recognize Prussia as a great power.
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Peace of Westphalia
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The peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648.
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Maria Theresa
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Austrian Hapsburg Empress.
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Constitutional Monarchy
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Form of Government in which a monarch acts of Head of State within the perimeters of law.
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Frederick William I
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Prussian ruler;
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Autocrat
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A cruel and oppressive dictator.
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Boyars
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Landowning Nobles.
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