Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
25 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Huguenots
|
French Calvinists, 40-50% of Nobility were these
|
|
|
Henry VI
|
Originally ___ Navare, converted to calvinism after realization that Catholic France would never support him.
|
|
|
Edict of Nantes
|
Solved religious problem in 1598. Acknowledged Catholicism as official religion in Europe, but also gave Hugenots the ability to worship and hold office.
|
|
|
Peace of Westphalia
|
Ended Thirty Years war in Germany. Ruled that each state was free to determine their own religion. Also separated religion and office.
|
|
|
Elizabeth Tudor
|
1558, England rises to prominense. Leader of protestants. Laid foundations.
|
|
|
Thirty Years War
|
Began in 1618. Fought between the Habsburg (catholic) roman empire and Protestant Catholic rebels. Ended by Peace of Westphalia.
|
|
|
The Witchcraft Craze
|
1560-1650. severe economic, social, and political crisis. It was popular before, but was now connected to the devil by the church. This resulted in high persecution, especially of women and was often the reasons for the downfall.
|
|
|
Louis XIV
|
Wrote letter to King Tonkin asking permission to sent missionaries to Vietnam, even though the missionaries have been there for years. This angered the courts and the permission was denied. This extends the monarchy as a stabilized during region.
|
|
|
Cardinal Mazarin
|
took over Louis XIV's reign as he was only four years old, in 1643. Had to battle the Fronde, a revolt by nobles to halt the power centralization at their expense. Stop the Fronde in 1652 and helped stabilize.
|
|
|
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
|
Controlled general finances. wanted to raise worth an dpower of France through mercantilism.
|
|
|
Cardinal Richelieu
|
Mazarin was his trained sucessor. Was the minister of Louis XIII's and strengthened the pwoer of the monarchy, by advocating absolutisn
|
|
|
THe Fronde
|
The revolt led by nobles who wished to curb the centralized administrative power built at the expense of provinical nobilit.
|
|
|
Mercantilism
|
used to identify a set of economic principales that dominated the economic though in the 17th Century. regulates commercial interests (limits imports, expands exports)
|
|
|
Frederick William the Great Elector
|
Laid foundation for Prussian Estate and build a large army to propel them to the top
|
|
|
Hohenzollerns
|
controlled Western and Earstern Germany, aka Brandenburg-Prussians
|
|
|
Hapsburgs
|
Austrians were the Holy Roman Emporers, which ruled over SE Europe, or mainly Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia. Crushed all hope of reign in Germany.
|
|
|
Peter the Great
|
reorganized and westernized Russia. Made a s rong army and navy to make Russia a big power. He divided Russia up into smaller areas. Adopted mercantilism. Built St. Petersburg
|
|
|
Divine Right Theory
|
One is king only by God's Grace. Crushed at William and Mary
|
|
|
Petition of Right
|
1628. Charles I versus Parliament. this prohibited taxes without Parliament's consent, arbritary punishment, the quatering of soldiers in private houses, and declaration of marital law in peace times.
|
|
|
Oliver Cromwell
|
helped parliament win the civil war from 42-24. made the New Model Army = Calvinist Armies fighting for God
|
|
|
Glorious Revolution
|
fight over who was the monarch in 1688.. barely any bloodshet, solved by William and Mary (versus King James I) (Parliament give sthem the throne), and birthed the Bill of Rights
|
|
|
William and mary
|
took throne in 1689, accepted from the parliament with the Bill of Rights which started the constitutional monarchy
|
|
|
Bill of Rights
|
passed afted mary and William take power. spevified rights of parliament and started a constitutional monarchy. No petition of the Parliament, no taxes or armies roused wihtout the Parliament's consent, ability to petition the government, keep arms, have a jury trial, and no excessive bail
|
|
|
Hobbes and Locke
|
Who: Thought State should have absolute power.
Another: Thought no one man should have all the power. Both agreed on the ppor state of man and without the government people change (01: no order or state of war, 02:equality). Both are Political Thinkers AGAINST revolution |
|
|
Mannerism
|
aimed to break down the high Renaissance type of harmony, moderation. It reflected the mass anxiety and uncertainty, suffering, and yearning ofr spirituality.
|
