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17 Cards in this Set
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Unlimited and Unrestrained power
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Absolute Power
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Belief that the king was established by God and therefore had absolute power and was not bound by human law.
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Divine Right
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Prussian nobility who worked closely with the electors in governing the country and serving as officers in the Prussian Army
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Junkers
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Supporters of Parliament in the English Civil War
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Roundheads
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Supporters of the King in the English Civil War
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Cavaliers
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Chief Minister Cardinal Richelieu. Absolutism. Under him, Hugenot (calvinists) Persecution.
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Louis X111
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Chief Minister of Louis X111
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Cardinal Richelieu
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the "sun king". King at 5. Stabilize french finances. cancel the edict of nantes (religious freedem in France).
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Louis XIV
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Palace of Louis XIV; twelve miles sw of Paris.
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Versailles
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Russian royal dynasty; deposed in the Rev. of 1917
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Romanov
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Eliz cousin; Authorized version of Bible. Ended war with Spain; Plymouth; needed Parliaments approval for spending.
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James 1
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Anglicans who sought to purify the Church of England.
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Puritans
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Year that KJV (Authorized Version) of bible was completed.
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1611
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James's Son. Intensified the tension between King and Parliament. The persecution of the Puritans became more severe. Causing them to sail to America. Wanted to be an absolute Ruler. Parliament drew up Petition of Right against him.
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Charles 1
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Under him, the Roundheads (Supporters of Parliament) defeated Charles at the Battle of Naseby.
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Oliver Cromwell
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Made it illegal for the British gov't to arbitrarily hold someone in jail.
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Habeas Corpus Act
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limited royal power, established certain civil liberties, and forbade future kingdoms from being Roman Catholic.
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English Bill of Rights
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