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1598
DATE OF EDICT OF NANTES
1618-1648
DATE OF THIRTY YEARS' WAR
1648
DATE OF PEACE OF WESTPHALIA
MID-16TH CENTURY
DATE OF DUTCH REVOLT
1640'S
DATE OF THE FRONDE
1648-1715
DATE OF REIGN OF LOUIS XIV
1715
DATE OF TREATY OF UTRECHT
1628
DATE OF PETITION OF RIGHT
1642-1649
DATE OF ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
1660
DATE OF STUART RESTORATION
1688
DATE OF GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
1689
DATE OF ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS
TREATY OF CATEAU-CAMBRESIS
ENDED HABSBURG-VAOLIS WAR, PRETTY MUCH ENDED DYNASTIC WARS
CONCORDAT OF BOLOGNA
GAVE FRENCH KING RIGHT TO APPOINT FRENCH CLERGY
TAILLE
TAX ON LAND
HUGUENOT
FRENCH CALVINIST
ST. BARTHOLOMEW DAY MASSACRE
1572 SLAUGHTER OF 20,000 HUGUENOTS BY FRENCH CATHOLICS
WAR OF THE THREE HENRYS
DYNASTIC/RELIGIOUS STRUGGLE IN LATE 16TH CENTURY FRANCE
HENRY OF NAVARRE
HUGUENOT WINNER OF WAR OF THE THREE HENRYS
HENRY IV
FRENCH KING WHO BECAME KING BY TURNING CATHOLIC, AUTHOR OF EDICT OF NANTES
PHILLIP II
INTENSELY CATHOLIC SPANISH HABSBURG KING
DUTCH CIVIL WAR
CIVIL WAR BETWEEN CATHOLICS SUPPORTED BY PHILLIP II AND HUGUENOTS SUPPORTED BY WILLIAM OF ORANGE
WILLIAM OF ORANGE
DUTCH LEADER OF REVOLT AGAINST PHILLIP II
SPANISH ARMADA
1588 ATTACK ON ENGLAND BY PHILLIP II
ELIZABETH I
ENGLISH QUEEN WHO DEFEATED SPANISH ARMADA
THIRTY YEARS' WAR
SERIES OF RELIGIOUS & POLITICAL WARS OF THE 17TH CENTURY
UNITED PROVINCES
THE SEVEN CALVINIST PROVINCES OF THE NETHERLANDS THAT BECAME THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
SPANISH NETHERLANDS
THE TEN CATHOLIC PROVINCES OF THE NETHERLANDS STILL CONTROLLED BY THE HABSBURGS AFTER THE DUTCH REVOLT
BOHEMIA
CZECH REGION OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE DURING THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
HABSBURGS
CATHOLIC DYNASTY OF SPAIN AND AUSTRIA
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS
SWEDISH PROTESTANT KING WHOSE VICTORIES IN THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR ENDED HABSBURG HOPES OF REUNITING GERMANY UNDER CATHOLICISM
PEACE OF WESTPHALIA
TREATY THAT ENDED THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
SOVEREIGNTY
CONTROL OF THE MAJOR INSTITUTIONS, ESPECIALLY LEGAL AND MILITARY, WITHIN ONE'S BORDERS
ABSOLUTISM
SOVEREIGNTY EMBODIED IN THE PERSON OF THE RULER
CONSTITUTIONALISM
SOVEREIGNTY IS SHARED, WRITTEN LAW
DIVINE RIGHT
THEORY OF ABSOLUTISM THAT SAYS THAT RULER GETS SOVEREIGNTY FROM GOD
BUREACRACY
THE STRUCTURE OF AND REGULATIONS FOR THE ACTIVITIES OF GOVERNMENT
STANDING ARMY
PERMANENT ARMY
JEAN BODIN
16TH CENTURY 'POLITIQUE' WHO SAID ONLY ABSOLUTIST RULER COULD PROVIDE ORDER
THOMAS HOBBES
AUTHOR OF LEVIATHAN
HOBBES'S IDEAS
STATE OF NATURE WAS NASTY, BRUTISH, & SHORT, PEOPLE SURRENDERED RIGHTS TO ABSOLUTIST RULER FOR SELF-PROTECTION
BISHOP BOSSUET
DEFENDED DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS DURING ERA OF LOUIS XIV
DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS
THEORY THAT SAYS KING'S POWER IS ABSOLUTE BECAUSE IT COMES FROM GOD
POLITIQUES
16TH-17TH CENTURY CATHOLIC MODERATES WHO FAVORED ACCOMODATION WITH HUGUENOTS & ALSO BELIEVED IN ABSOLUTIST RULE
HENRY IV
EARLY 17TH CENTURY FRENCH KING WHO PROCLAIMED EDICT OF NANTES, CREATED NOBILITY OF THE ROBE TO WEAKEN TRADITIONAL NOBILITY AND OTHERWISE ESTABLISHED FOUNDATIONS OF FRENCH ABSOLUTISM
SULLY
CHIEF MINISTER TO HENRY IV WHO PROMOTED FRENCH ECONOMY
LOUIS XIII
17TH CENTURY KING WHO APPOINTED RICHELIEU
CARDINAL RICHELIEU
17TH CENTURY ROYAL OFFICIAL WHO CREATED INTENDANTS, SUBORDINATED THE NOBILITY, AND HELPED FURTHER FRENCH ABSOLUTISM
INTENDANTS
FRENCH ROYAL OFFICIALS WHO DEALT WITH LAW COURTS, TAXES, ARMY RECRUITMENT AND OTHERWISE CENTRALIZED ROYAL AUTHORITY IN FRANCE
GENERALITE
DISTRICTS OVERSEEN BY INTENDANT
NOBILITY OF THE ROBE
FRENCH NOBLES CREATED BY HENRY IV TO WEAKEN THE TRADITIONAL NOBILITY
NOBILITY OF THE SWORD
TRADITIONAL BLOOD-BASED NOBILITY
THE FRONDE
ANTI-KING ACTIVITIES BY NOBLES IN THE MID-17TH CENTURY THAT CONVINCED THE CHILD-KING LOUIS XIV THAT NOBLES WERE BAAAAAD PEOPLE
LOUIS XIV
FRENCH KING FROM 1648 TO 1715 WHOSE 72 YEAR REIGN CEMENTED ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE
THE SUN KING
LOUIS XIV'S 'NICKNAME'
VERSAILLES
ROYAL PALACE BUILT BY LOUIS XIV
TAX FARMERS
NOBLES WHO COLLECTED TAXES FOR THE KINGS, USUALLY TOOK MOST OF IT THEMSELVES
COLBERT
LOUIS XIV'S FINANCE MINISTER, ARCHITECT OF MERCANTILISM
GALLICAN CHURCH
FRENCH CATHOLIC CHURCH
EDICT OF FOUNTAINBLEU
EDICT THAT REVOKED EDICT OF NANTES
CORVEE
PEASANT FORCED LABOR
LOUVOIS
FRENCH MINISTER OF LOUIS XIV WHO OVERSAW THE MODERNIZATION OF THE FRENCH ARMY
TREATY OF NIJMAGEN
EARLY TREATY IN LOUIS XIV'S WARS THAT GOT HIM SOME FLEMISH TOWNS
WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION
LAST & MOST IMPORTANT OF LOUIS XIV'S WARS, OVER WHETHER BOURBONS COULD RULE HABSBURG SPAIN
GRAND ALLIANCE
ALLIANCE OF ENGLAND, HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, AND DUTCH, TO FIGHT AGAINST LOUIS XIV
TREATY OF UTRECHT
ENDED WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION & WARS OF LOUIS XIV
JEAN MARTINET
OFFICIAL IN LOUIS XIV'S ARMY WHO IMPOSED SEVERE DISCIPLINE
BATTLE OF BLENHEIM
FRENCH DEFEATED BY ENGLISH IN 1704
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
POWER SHARED BETWEEN KING AND LEGISLATURE
CONSISTUITIONAL DEMOCRACY
POWER SHARED BETWEEN KING AND PEOPLE
PRIMOGENITURE
ONLY ELDEST SON INHERITS
GENTRY
LAND-OWNING CLASS
TUDOR
DYNASTY OF HENRY VII AND ELIZABETH I
JAMES I
1ST STUART KING 1603-1625
STUART
DYNASTY OF 17TH CENTURY ENGLISH KINGS
JAMES I'S WRITTEN DEFENSE OF DIVINE RIGHT
THE TREW LAW OF FREE MONARCHY
CHARLES I
STUART KING WHO FOUGHT CIVIL WAR
PETITION OF RIGHT
1628 DOCUMENT THAT SAID KING CAN'T RAISE MONEY ILLEGALLY OR SUSPEND HABEAS CORPUS
HOUSE OF COMMONS
LOWER HOUSE OF BRITISH PARLIAMENT
HOUSE OF LORDS
PARLIAMENTARY BODY FOR TITLED NOBILITY
WILLIAM LAUD
ANGLICAN ARCHBISHOP WHO PERSECUTED PURITANS
SHIP MONEY
UNLAWFUL TAX THAT MADE INLAND TOWNS PAY TO MAINTAIN THE NAVY
TRIENNIAL ACT
LONG PARLIAMENT ACT THAT SAID KING HAD TO SUMMON PARLIAMENT AT LEAST EVERY THREE YEARS
CAVALIERS
ROYAL SIDE IN ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
ROUNDHEADS
PARLIAMENT SIDE IN ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
OLIVER CROMWELL
COMMANDER OF NEW MODEL ARMY
NEW MODEL ARMY
CROMWELL'S PURITAN ARMY IN ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
PRIDE'S PURGE
CROMWELL'S 1648 PURGE OF OPPONENTS IN PARLIAMENT
RUMP PARLIAMENT
pARLIAMENT OF CROMWELL'S SUPPORTERS AFTER PRIDE'S PURGE
INTERREGNUM
LITERALLY 'BETWEEN THE KINGS' REFERS TO 1649-1660 WHEN CROMWELL RULED
CHARLES II
STUART KING WHO ASCENDED AS A RESULT OF STUART RESTORATION
SHORT PARLIAMENT
QUICKLY DISSOLVED 1640 PARLIAMENT
LONG PARLIAMENT
PARLIAMENT THAT SAT FROM 1640 TO 1648, AND ELIMINATED ROYAL ABSOLUTISM IN ENGLAND
STUART RESTORATION
RESTORATION OF STUARTS, ANGLICANS, AND PARLIAMENT
CLARENDON CODE
BARRED PURITANS FROM PARLIAMENT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ETC
TEST ACT
BARRED CATHOLICS FROM VOTING, HOLDING OFFICE
TREATY OF DOVER
SECRET 1670 TREATY BETWEEN CHARLES II AND LOUIS XIV: LOUIS PROMISED LOANS IF CHARLES WOULD CONVERT TO CATHOLICISM
EXCLUSION ACT
FAILED WHIG ATTEMPT TO EXCLUDE THE CATHOLIC BROTHER OF CHARLES II FROM THE THRONE
JAMES II
CATHOLIC STUART KING OVERTHROWN IN GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
1688 OVERTHROW OF JAMES II BY PARLIAMENT
WILLIAM AND MARY
SON-IN-LAW & DAUGHTER OF JAMES II, RULED ENGLAND AFTER GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
ROBERT WALPOLE
FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND
BILL OF RIGHTS
1689 DOCUMENT THAT PARLIAMENT DEMANDED WILLIAM AND MARY SIGN BEFORE TAKING THE THRONE, ESTABLISHED ENGLISH CONSTITUTIONALISM
ACT OF UNION
UNITED SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND INTO GREAT BRITAIN
PRAGMATIC SANCTION
1713 AGREEMENT THAT HABSBURG LANDS WOULD BE INHERITED BY MARIA THERESA
THE THREE PARTS OF HABSBURG LANDS IN THE 17TH-18TH CENTURY
BOHEMIA ,AUSTRA, HUNGARY
HOHENZOLLERN
GERMAN DYNASTY OF PRUSSIA AND BRANDENBERG
JUNKERS
MILITARY NOBLES OF PRUSSIA
FREDERICK WILLIAM I
HOHENZOLLERN RULER WHO MILITARIZED PRUSSIA-BRANDENBERG & TURNED IT INTO A GREAT POWER
THE GREAT ELECTOR AKA FREDERICK WILLIAM
1ST GREAT HOHENZOLLERN RULER