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34 Cards in this Set
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Robot |
Three days per week of unpaid labor from Bohemian Serfs. |
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Liberum Veto |
A Polish legislative device that allowed any member of Sejm to end a session and nullify all legislation passed |
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Tsar |
An emperor in Russia before 1917 |
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Drang nach Osten |
The German policy of eastward expansion, especially used under Nazi rule later on. |
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Streltsi |
The first Russian soldiers equipped with firearms. Organized by Ivan the Terrible |
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Germanic Liberties |
Privileges given to the nobles in Germany |
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Capitulations |
Special treaties between the Swiss and foreign powers about Swiss mercenaries
Mercenaries fought in several European armies
Most important in France, where they served as personal guards to the King. |
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Procurator of the Holy Synod |
Head of the Russian Orthodox Church, and of the Tsar's cabinet. |
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Canton System |
A system of recruiting created by Frederick William I of Russia
Each regiment had a particular district of canton assigned to it as a source of soldiers. |
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Pragmatic Sanction |
Issued by Charles VI of Austria in 1713 to assure his daughter Maria Theresa gained the throne.
Rules proclaiming that the Hapsburg possessions were never to be divided, even if a woman took the throne. |
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Janissaries |
Members of the Ottoman Turkish Army, organized by Murad I.
Recruited from christian children, brought up as Muslims, put into the military and forbidden to marry.
"Ideal" Turkish fighting force |
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Koprulu Viziers |
Humble Albanian family which served as a CEO in the Ottoman Empire. |
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John Sobieski |
A famous King of Poland and Lithuania
Defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna |
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Charles VI of Austria |
HRE who failed to gain absolute control over Hungary
Crowned his daughter in 1740 |
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Prince Francis Rakoczy |
Ruling Prince of Transylvania |
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Charles XII of Sweden |
The ambitious young King who routes Peter's forces at Narva. |
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Szlachta |
Legally privileged noble class in the Kingdom of Poland |
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Junkers |
The Nobility and landowning classes of Prussia and Brandenburg |
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Frederick William, the Great Elector |
The man who consolidated Brandenburg and Prussia into an organized militaristic state in the late 17th century |
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Ivan the Terrible |
A notoriously cruel Russian
The first to adopt the name Csar. |
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Peter the Great |
The famous Tsar who sought to build the Russian state and apply lessons from the Western Europe to his own nations.
The Beard Tax |
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Stephan Razin |
The man who lead the major Cossack rebellion against Tsarist Russia beginning in 1670 |
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Michael Romanov |
The man eventually chosen as Fyodur's successor. |
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Lithuania |
Liberum Veto dissolved it |
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Brandenburg |
United with Prussia by Frederick William 1701 |
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St. Petersburg |
Construction began in 1702; shortly after it replaced Moscow as Russia's capital |
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Poltava |
Captured by Jeremi Wisniowiecki during the Ukrainian Crusades |
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Silesia |
A region of Central Europe primarily in SW Poland and Northern Czech.
Settled by Slavic people around 500
Long contested |
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Hanover |
The royal house who ascended to the English throne following the Act of Settlement
The Georges were members of it |
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Pomerania |
Prussia gained parts of this location in 1720 |
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Archangle |
Peter the Great had a shipyard built here
Founded St. Petersburg |
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Bohemia |
Eastern European nation located on the present-day Czech-Republic
Beginning site of the 30 years war
Battle of White Mountain |
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Transylvania |
Hapsburgs acquired shortly after the Battle of Vieanna in 1683 |
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East Prussia |
Combined with Brandenburg under Frederick William, the Great Elector. |
