C. Talda Ap Euro Palmer Ch. 5

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Leibniz

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-mathematician and philosopher

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Bach

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-german musician

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Ottoman Empire

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-reached about 50 miles from vienna, and it extended over what is now romania and over the Tartars on the north shore of the Black Sea
-Muslim power, cloesely connected to the Islamic civilization of the Middle East and filled with peoples who generally lived outside European cultural traditions
-central authority was weak
-lacked efficient systems of administration and government

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janissaries

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-part of the Turkish old army
-were originally recruited from Christian children taken from their families in early childhood, brought up as Muslims, reared in military surroundings, and forbidden to marry

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sultan

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-also the caliph, the commander of the faithful
-combined religion with government

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free veto

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-liberum veto
-any member of the diet in Germany could use it to break up the diet

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Imperial Diet

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-the highest representative assembly in german empire

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"Germanic Liberties

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-freedom of the member states from control by emperor or empire

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Wittelsbachs
of Bavaria

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-the house of Austria, what new coming state of Austria was referred as

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Hohenzollerns of Prussia

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-the house of Prussia, what the new coming state of Prussia was referred to as

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Guelphs of Hannover

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-german austrian royalty

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Charles VI

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-King archduke of Hungary
-1711-1740
-devised Pragmatic Sanction

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Maria Theresa

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-daughter of Charles VI who won the right to inherit the Habsburg throne and territories

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Prince Eugene of Savoy

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-french, founder of of the modern Austrian state
-military administrator and a commander in the field
-helped to expand austrian empire

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Siege of Vienna

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-1683, turkish army besieged city of Vienna
-pope Innocent XI financed it
-commanded by Habsburg general Duke Charles of Lorrain

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Pragmatic Sanction

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-first issued in 1713, devised a form of insuance to guarantee such an undivided succession and make sure that the habsburg family would be recognized as the only heirs and would recieve the Habsburg territories

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Frederick William the Great Elector

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-king of Prussia from 1713 to 1740
-an earthy, uncouth man who disdained whatever savored of "culture"
-begrudged every penny not spent on army
-loved army, invented new way of recruiting, expanded army from 40,000 to 83,000
-increased Berlin's population to 100,000

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Gustavlls Adolphus

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-swedish king from 1611-1632
-helped begin swedish expanision by crossing into the Baltic in the thrity years war and making alliances with protestant german princes

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Charles XII

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-king of sweden from 1697 to 1718
-he had final campaign for imperial expansion

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Frederick I

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-first king of Prussia

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Frederick II

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-aka frederick the great
-he moved armies into Silesia, this addition to Prussia almost doubled their population and added valuable industries

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Orang nach Osten

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-German's drive to the east

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Elector of Brandenburg

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-ruler of Brandenburg, one of the seven princes who elected Holy Roman emperor, however after 1415 all were from Hohenzollern family

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Junkers

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-the aristocracy who was in the service of the military

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Peter the Great

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-tsar in 1682-1725 helped create a rapid process of europeanizatioin

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Stephen Razin

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-led uprising in 1667, he gathered a host of fugitive serfs, Cossacks, and adventurers, outfitted a fleet on the Caspian sea, plundered russian vessels, defeated a persian squadron, and invaded persia itself, then went back onto the Volga declaring a war against nobles priests and landlords
-clamped serfdom down on the country even more firmly

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Michael Romanov

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--elected tsar in 1613 by a national assembly
-Romanov dynasty ruled until 1917
-early romanovs began to repress representative instutuions because they saw the fate of elective bodies

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Muscovy

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-old tsardom the transformed into modern Russia

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Volga River

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-great russians settled along this river

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Urals

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-mountains that the great russians crossed after defeating the volga tartars

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Caspian Sea

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-at southern part of russia

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Siberia

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-muscovites pioneers, settlers, and townbuilders, streamed along the river systems in Sieria, egan establishing towns here

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streltsi

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-elite of old army, kind of Moscow guard
in 1698 they rebelled against peter the great

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Narva

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-1700 battle against the russians and swedes
-swedes won

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Poltava

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-battle against swedes and russian where charles once again destoryed the russians

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Procurator

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-not a churchman, but head of a government bureau whose task was to see that the church did nothing displeasing to the tsar

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Synod

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-a committee of bishops which the russian orthodox church was controlled by