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SOVEREIGNTY
CONTROL OF MAJOR INSTITUTIONS--ESP. MILITARY & JUDICIAL--WITHIN ONE'S BORDER
ABSOLUTISM
SOVEREIGNTY EMBODIED IN THE PERSON OF THE RULER
CONSTITUTIONALISM
SHARED SOVEREIGNTY, USUALLY ACCOMPANIED BY RULE OF WRITTEN LAW
DIVINE RIGHT
THEORY THAT POWER OF MONARCH COMES FROM GOD
BUREAUCRACY
STRUCTURE OF AND REGULATIONS FOR THE ACTIVITIES OF GOVERNMENT
ADMINISTRATIVE BURAUCRACY
TERM IMPLYING THAT 17TH CENTURY MONARCHY WAS NOT TRULY ABSOLUTE, ONLY THAT ITS POWER WAS CENTRALIZED AND ITS BUREAUCRACY EXPANDED
STANDING ARMY
PERMANENT, NATIONAL ARMY
TOTALITARIANISM
TOTAL CONTROL OVER MOST ASPECTS OF PEOPLES' LIVES
JEAN BODIN
FRENCH POLITIQUE AND THEORIST OF ABSOLUTISM--HE SAID THAT ONLY ABSOLUTISM COULD RESTORE ORDER
THOMAS HOBBES
ENGLISH THEORIST OF ABSOLUTISM AND SOCIAL CONTRACT GOVERNMENT
LEVIATHAN
HOBBES' WORK ON ABSOLUTISM
STATE OF NATURE
THEORETICAL PRE-GOVERNMENT HUMAN LIFE IN ORDER PHILSOPHICALLY TO JUSTIFY CERTAIN FORM OF GOVERNMENT
BISHOP BOSSUET
FRENCH DIVINE RIGHT THEORIES AND DEFENDER OF LOUIS XIV
HENRY IV
FIRST BOURBON KING, ESTABLISHED FOUNDATIONS OF ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE IN THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY
BOURBONS
FRENCH ROYAL DYNASTY BEGINNING WITH HENRY IV
FIRST ESTATE
FRENCH LEGAL/SOCIAL ORDER OF CLERGY
SECOND ESTATE
FRENCH LEGAL/SOCIAL ORDER OF NOBILITY
THIRD ESTATE
FRENCH LEGAL/SOCIAL ORDER OF COMMONERS
FORTIFIED TOWNS
FRENCH HUGUENOT CITIES GIVEN PROTECTION UNDER THE EDICT OF NANTES
EDICT OF NANTES
DECREE OF HUGUENOT TOLERATION BY HENRY IV, REVOKED BY LOUIS XIV
DUKE OF SULLY
ECONNOMIC MINISTER TO HENRY IV WHO DESIGNED POLICIES WHICH STRENGTHENED FRENCH INDUSTRY
SUBSIDY
FINANCIAL GRANT GIVEN BY GOVERNMENT
LOUIS XIII
17TH CENTYR BOURBON KING WHO APPOINTED RICHELIEU
CARDINAL RICHELIEU
FRENCH ROYAL MINISTER WHO CREATED INTENDANTSM SUBORDINATED NOBLES, AND GENERALLY ESTABLISHED ROYAL ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE
GENERALITES
FRENCH DISTRICTS OVERSEEN BY INTENDANTS
INTENDANTS
FRENCH ROYAL OFFICIALS WHO DEALT WITH LAW COURTS, TAXES, AND ARMY RECRUITMENT, AND OTHERWISE CENTRALIZED ROYAL AUTHORITY IN FRANCE
NOBILITY OF THE ROBE
NEW NOBLES WHO BOUGHT TITLES FROM KING
NOBILITY OF THE SWORD
ANCIENT BLOOD- AND MILITARY-BASED NOBILITY
SIEGE OF LA ROCHELLE
HUGUENOT FORTIFIED TOWN SUBDUED BY RICHELIEU
FRENCH ACADEMY
CULTURAL BUREAUCRACY WHOSE STANDARDIZATION OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE
FURTHERED FRENCH ABSOLUTISM AND INTERNATIONAL PRESTIGE
CARDINAL MAZARIN
REGENT TO LOUIS XIV WHO FURTHERED FRENCH ABSOLUTISM AND WHOSE POLICIES PROVOKED THE FRONDE
THE FRONDE
ANTI-MONARCHICAL REVOLT OF 1648-53 WHICH CONVINCED THE CHILD LOUIS XIV THAT THE NOBLES WERE VERY BAD PEOPLE
LOUIS XIV
FRENCH KING WHO EPITOMIZED FRENCH ABSOLUTISM AND DOMINATED 17TH CENTURY EUROPE
THE SUN KING
17TH CENTURY NAME FOR KING LOUIS XIV
VERSAILLES
ROYAL PALACE BUILT BY LOUIS XIV
ESTATES-GENERAL
TRADITIONAL MEETING OF THE 3 ESTATES OF FRANCE
TAX FARMERS
NOBLES WHO COLLECTED TAXES FOR THE KING, FREQUENTLY KEPT MOST OF IT
COLBERT
LOUIS XIV'S FINANCE MINISTER AND MAIN ARCHITECT OF FRENCH MERCANTILISM
FAVORABLE BALANCE OF TRADE
EXPORTS GREATER THAN IMPORTS
MERCANTILISM
STATE-RUN ECONOMY WHOSE MAIN GOAL IS INFLUX OF GOLD INTO NATION
EDICT OF FOUNTAINBLEU
EDICT THAT REVOKED THE EDICT OF NANTES
GALLICAN CHUCH
FRENCH CATHOLIC CHURCH
FRENCH CLASSICISM
CULTURAL STYLE IN THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV, IMITATED STYLE AND CONTENT OF ANCIENT CLASSICS (RESTRAINT, DISCIPLINE, BALANCE)
POUSSIN
FRENCH CLASSICIST PAINTER
LULLY
FRENCH CLASSICIST AND ORCHESTRAL COMPOSER
COUPERIN
FRENCH CLASSICIST & CHORAL COMPOSER
MOLIERE
FRENCH PLAYWRIGHT IN THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV WHO SATIRIZED FRENCH SOCIETY
RACINE
FRENCH PLAYWRIGHT IN THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV WHO EPITOMIZED THE SIMPLICITY AND RESTRAINT OF FRENCH DRAMATIC CLASSICISM
LOUVOIS
MINISTER OF LOUIS XIV WHO MODERNIZED, PROFESSIONALISED THE FRENCH ARMY
DRAGOONING
RECRUITMENT POLICY THAT SEIZES POTENTIAL MILITARY RECRUITS OFF THE STREETS
COMMISSARIAT
LOUVOIS INNOVATION THAT REPLACED 'LIVING OFF THE LAND' WITH ORGANIZED FEEDING OF TROOPS
JEAN MARTINET
FRENCH COMMANDER WHOSE STRICT DISCIPLINE HELPED TURN THE FRENCH ARMY INTO AN EFFICIENT MILITARY MACHINE
LEAGUE OF AUGSBURG
ALLIANCE OF HRE, SPAIN, HOLLAND, & SWEDEN TO STOP LOUIS XIV DURING 3RD OF HIS WARS
WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION
LAST& MOST IMPORTANT WAR OF LOUIS XIV,OVER WHETHER BOURBONS COULD RULE HABSBURG SPAIN
GRAND ALLIANCE
ALLIANCE OF ENGLAND, HRE, DUTCH TO FIGHT LOUIS XIV
TREATY OF UTRECHT
ENDED WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION/ WARS OF LOUIS XIV
WILLIAM OF ORANGE
DUTCH/ ENGLISH RULER WHO FOUGHT LOUIS XIV
BATTLE OF BLENHEIM
1704 BATTLE IN WHICH BRITISH DEFEATED FRENCH
1648-1653
DATE OF THE FRONDE
1648-1715
DATE OF THE RULE OF LOUIS XIV
1715
DATE IF THE PEACE OF UTRECHT
CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC
CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT WITHOUT A KING
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT IN WHICH A MONARCH SHARES RULE
CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY
CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT INCLUDING RULE BY THE PEOPLE
TITLED NOBILITY
ENGLISH NOBILITY WHO HAD FORMAL TITLES AND ESTATES
GENTRY
ENGLISH LANDOWNERS
PRIMOGENITURE
ENGLISH SOCIAL TRADITION IN WHICH ONLY FIRST-BORN GETS THE NOBLE TITLE AND ESTATE
HOUSE OF LORDS
PARLIAMENTARY HOUSE THAT INCLUDES THE TITLED NOBILITY
HOUSE OF COMMONS
PARLIAMENTARY HOUSE THAT INCLUDES MERCHANTS AND GENTRY
BI-CAMERAL
TWO LEGISLATIVE HOUSES
POWER OF THE PURSE
TRADITIONAL PARLIAMENTARY POWER TO CONTROL TAXATION
PRESBYTERIANS
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH PROTESTANTS WHO FAVORED DECENTRALIZED CHURCH RULE
ELIZABETH I
TUDOR MONARCH WHOSE 1603DEATH ENDED THE TUDOR LINE
TUDOR
DYNASTY OF ENGLISH KINGS FROM HENRY VII TO ELIZABETH (1485-1603)
JAMES I
FIRST STUART KING OF ENGLAND
TREW LAW OF FREE MONARCHY
JAMES I'S DEFENSE OF DIVINE RIGHT ABSOLUTISM
CHARLES I
STUART KING WHO LOST POWER & HEAD IN ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
PETITION OF RIGHT
1628 DOCUMENT THAT SAID KING MUST ADHERE TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND
FORCED LOAN
MONARCHICAL PRACTICE OF DEMANDING THAT SUBJECTS PROVIDE FUNDS FOR THE CROWN
MARTIAL LAW
MILITARY LAW CHARACTERIZED BY SOLDIERS IN STREETS, CURFEWS, ETC
PURITANS
ENGLISH PROTESTANTS WHO OPPOSED ANGLICANS AND KINGS IN MID-17TH CENTURY ENGLAND
WILLIAM LAUD
ANGLICAN ARCHBISHOP WHO PERSECUTED PROTESTANTS FOR CHARLES I
SHIP MONEY
UNLAWFUL TAX THAT MADE INLAND TOWNS PAY TO MAINTAIN THE NAVY, USED BY CHARLES I TO RULE WITHOUT PARLIAMENT
LONG PARLIAMENT
1640-1660 PARLIAMENT THAT OPPOSED STUART KINGS AND CROMWELL
TRIENNIAL ACT
1640 LONG PARLIAMENT ACT THAT FORCED KING TO SUMMON PARLIAMENT AT LEAST EVERY THREE YEARS
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
KING V. PARLIAMENT WAR 1642-8
ROUNDHEADS
SUPPORTERS OF PARLIAMENT DURING ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
CAVALIERS
SUPPORTERS OF KING DURING ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
NEW MODEL ARMY
CROMWELL'S PURITAN ARMY IN ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
OLIVER CROMWELL
PURITAN LEADER DURING ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, RULER OF ENGLAND DURING INTERREGNUM
BATTLE OF NASEBY
PURITAN NEW MODEL ARMY VICTORY IN ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
INTERREGNUM
RULE OF CROMWELL BETWEEN MONARCHIES OF CHARLES I AND II
PRIDE'S PURGE
CROMWELL'S 1648 PURGE OF OPPONENTS IN PARLIAMENT
RUMP PARLIAMENT
PARLIAMENT OF CROMWELL SUPPORTERS AFTER PRIDE'S PURGE
REGICIDE
KILLING OF KING/ EXECUTION OF CHARLES I 1649
PROTECTORATE
WHAT CROMWELL CALLED HIS GOVERNMENT
COMMONWEALTH
REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT
RESTORATION
1660 RESUMPTION OF STUART, ANGLICAN, AND PARLIAMENTARY RULE IN ENGLAND
CHARLES II
3RD STUART KING OF ENGLAND WHOSE RULE BEGAN WITH THE RESTORATION
CAVALIER PARLIAMENT
ANGLICAN PARLIAMENT OF THE RESTORATION THAT EXCLUDED PURITANS AND CATHOLICS FROM PUBLIC LIFE
CLARENDON CODE
LEGISLATION BY CAVALIER PARLIAMENT THAT BARRED PURITANS FROM PARLIAMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
TEST ACT
LEGISLATION OF CAVALIER PARLIAMENT THAT BARRED CATHOLICS FROM VOTING OR HOLIDNG OFFICE IN ENGLAND
TREATY OF DOVER
SECRET 1670 TREATY BETWEEN CHARLES II AND LOUIS XIV; CHARLES PROMISED CATHOLICISM IN RETURN FOR AID
WHIGS
ANTI-MONARCHICAL PARLIAMENTARY FACTION THAT SUPPORTED THE EXCLUSION OF THE CATHOLIC JAMES II
TORIES
PRO-MONARCHICAL PARLIAMENTARY FACTION THAT OPPOSED THE EXCLUSION OF THE CATHOLIC JAMES FROM THE THRONE
JAMES II
CATHOLIC STUART KING DEFEATED IN GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
1688 OVERTHROW OF KING JAMES II BY PARLIAMENT
WILLIAM AND MARY
SON-IN-LAW AND DAUGHTER OF JAMES II WHO RULED ENGLAND AFTER GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
BILL OF RIGHTS
1689 DOCUMENT SIGNED BY WILLIAM AND MARY IN EXCHANGE FOR THRONE, ESTABLISHED ENGLISH CONSTITUTIONALISM
JOHN LOCKE
POLITICAL THEORIST DURING GLORIOUS REVOLUTION WHO SUGGESTED THAT GOVERNMENT EXISTS TO PROTECT THE NATURAL RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE
SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT
LOCKE WORK ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT, NATURAL RIGHTS, AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
CABINET SYSTEM
ENGLISH SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS ADVISE AND RULE WITH MONARCH
PRIME MINISTER
PARLIAMENTARY LEADER OF MAJORITY POWER WHO INCREASINGLY LED ENGLISH GOVERNMENTS AFTER THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY
ROBERT WALPOLE
FIRST ENGLISH LEADER WHO ACTEWD AS PRIME MINISTER
ACT OF UNION
1717 LEGISLATION THAT UNITED ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND INTO GREAT BRITAIN
1603-1649
DATE OF REIGN OF FIRST STUARTS
1628
DATE OF PETITION OF RIGHT
1640-1660
DATE OF LONG PARLIAMENT
1642-8
DATE OF ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
1649
DATE OF EXECUTION OF CHARLES I
1648-1660
DATE OF INTERREGNUM / PROTECTORATE/ COMMONWEALTH
1660
DATE OF RESTORATION
1688
DATE OF GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
1689
DATE OF ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS
HEREDITARY SUBJUGATION
SERFDOM
ROBOT
FORCED PEASANT LABOR IN EASTERN EUROPE
CZECHS
NATIONALITY OF BOHEMIA
FERDINAND II
CATHOLIC KING OF BOHEMIA
SIEGE OF VIENNA
1683 DEFEAT OF OTTOMAN TURKS BY AUSTRIAN HABSBURGS
PRAGMATIC SANCTION
1713 AGREEMENT THAT HABSBURG LANDS MUST BE INHERITED BY A SINGLE HEIR
HOHENZOLLERNS
DYNASTY OF PRUSSIAN RULERS WHO TURNED BRANDENBERG-PRUSSIA INTO A GREAT POWER
PRUSSIA
SEAT OF HOHENZOLLERN POWER
PROVINCIAL ESTATES
TRADITIONAL LOCAL SEAT OF NOBLE RULE IN PRUSSIA
ALTERNATE NAME FOR THE GREAT ELECTOR
ALTERNATE NAME FOR FREDERICK WILLIAM
THE GREAT ELECTOR
HOHENZOLLERN WHO FIRST ESTABLISHED BRANDENBERG-PRUSSIA AS A GREAT POWER BY DEFEATING THE PROVINCIAL ESTATES
JUNKERS
MILITARY NOBILITY OF PRUSSIA
FREDERICK WILLIAM I
HOHENZOLLERN RULER WHO MILITARIZED PRUSSIA AND TURNED IT INTO A GREAT POWER
EASTERN ORTHODOXY
EASTERN CHRISTIANITY THAT REJECTS AUTHORITY OF POPE, CENTERED IN RUSSIA AFTER FALL OF BYZANTINE EMPIRE
EASTERN SLAVS
ETHNIC NATIONALITY OF RUSSIA
MONGOLS
NOMADIC TRIBES FROM MONGOLIA THAT INVADED EASTRERN SLAVES (RUSSIA) IN 13TH CENTURY
GOLDEN HORDE
MONGOL ARMY THAT DEFEATED EASTERN SLAVS (RUSSIA)
MONGOL CONQUEST
RULE OF EASTERN SLAVS IN 13TH-15TH CENTURIES
MONGOL YOKE
TWO CENTURY RULE OF EASTERN SLAVS BY MONGOLS
MUSCOVITE PRINCES
NOBLES OF MOSCOW WHO EMERGED TO POWER DURING MONGOL YOKE
TSAR
TITLE TAKEN BY MUSCOVITE PRINCES(RUSSIAN FOR 'CAESAR') TO DENOTE THEIR ABSOLUTE POWER
AUTOCRACY
ABSOLUTE POWER
BOYAR NOBILITY
TRAIDITONAL RUSSIAN NOBILITY
SERVICE NOBILITY
NEWER RUSSIAN NOBILITY WHOSE NOBILITY DEPENDED ON MILITARY SERVICE TO TSAR
BYZANTINE EMPIRE
EASTERN ROMAN/ EASTERN ORTHODOX EMPIRE DEFEATED BY OTTOMAN TURKS IN 1453
IVAN THE GREAT
FIRST MUSCOVITE PRINCE/ POST-MONGOL TSAR WHO ENDED MONGOL RULE IN MOSCOW & ESTABLISHED ABSOLUTE RULE
IVAN THE TERRIBLE
FIRST TO TAKE TITLE OF TSAR, ESTABLISHED ABSOLUTISM BY SUBDUING BOYARS, PEASANTS, TOWNS
ROMANOVS
DYNASTY OF RUSSIAN TSARS BEGINNING IN 17TH CENTURY
COSSACKS
FREE OUTLAW GROUPS OF PEASANTS FORMED TO RESIST NOBLE & TSAR TYRANNIES
TIME OF TROUBLES
POWER STRUGGLES AND REVOLTS FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE
MICHAEL ROMANOV
1ST TSAR OF THE ROMANOVE DYNASTY
PETER THE GREAT
TSAR WHO MODERNIZED AND WESTERNIZED RUSSIA IN THE 17TH-18TH CENTURIES
1683
DATE OF SIEGE OF VIENNA
13TH-15TH CENTURIES
DATE OF MONGOL RULE
LATE 16TH CENTURY
RULE OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE
1698-1613
DATE OF TIME OF TROUBLES
1682-1725
DATE OF REIGN OF PETER THE GREAT