European History Midterm One

Front 1

By the end of the 16th Century, Europe was beginning to experience a decline in ________________ and a growing secularization in both the _____________________ worlds.

Back 1

religious passions, political and intellectual

Hint 1

You know this one!

Front 2

____________________ was considered by some as the turning point in the evolution of a modern state system in Europe.

Back 2

The 17th Century

Hint 2

What century?

Front 3

A response to the religious wars and other crises of the time was the __________ ___ ______. As rebellions died down, it became apparent that the privileged classes of society—the __________—remained in control, although the various states exhibited important differences in political forms.

Back 3

yearning for order, aristocrats,

Front 4

The most general trend saw an expansion of monarchical power as a stabilizing force; this has been called ____________ or ___________.

Back 4

monarchy, absolutism

Front 5

Absolutism was most evident in _______ during the reign of ____________, the perfect embodiment of an absolute monarch

Back 5

France, Louis XIV

Hint 5

Where and who

Front 6

___________ reacted differently to domestic crises, and another system emerged where monarchs were ________ by the power of their _________________ ________________.

Back 6

England, limited, representative assemblies

Front 7

Another “_______ ____ ____” after the middle of the 16th century, when average temperatures fell, affected harvests and caused famines.

Back 7

little ice age

Front 8

Religion, especially the struggle between militant ____________ and militant __________, played an important role in the outbreak of the _______ ______ ____ (____-____), often called the “last of the ___________ _____.”

Back 8

Catholicism, Calvinism, Thirty Years’ War, 1618, 1648, relgious wars

Front 9

The conflict began in the German states as Europe’s major powers backed either the northern ___________ Union or the southern ___________ League. As the war progressed, __________ receded in importance, replaced by a dynastic struggle between the French ____________ and the _________ and __________ _________.

Back 9

Protestant, Catholic, religion, Bourbons, Spanish, Austrian Habsburgs

Front 10

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the ___________ ruler of the ___________, the Elector Palatine ___________ __, assumed the leadership in forming a league of German Protestant states called the Protestant Union.

To counteract it, the Catholic League of German states was organized by ______ ____________ of the south German state of ___________.

Back 10

Calvinist, Palatinate, Frederick IV, Duke Maximilian, Bavaria

Hint 10

(religion), (religious group), man's name, title, name,