World History Q2 Test 4

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revocation

Back 1

withdrawal

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the Fronde

Back 2

-rebellion of French noble against the king
-Louis XIV was a child at this time
-Cardinal Mazarain had to defend the young king
-taught Louis to be tough and not soft
-after regent died Louis took place as king

Front 3

Jean Baptiste Colbert

Back 3

-after Cardinal Mazarain died, he became the kings most trusted advisor
-finance advisor
-tries to help France practice mercantilism
-France needs a lot of money

Front 4

mercantilism

Back 4

belief that a nation should make colonies and sell their finished goods to colony

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Versailles

Back 5

-France needs money
-Louis XIV wants to build Versai
-palace and village
1. he wants to show off the "sun king"
2. get the king out of Paris
-get him out of the Louvre
-it was a ghetto area w/ commoners
-he wanted a house big enough to house the wealthy
-prison w/out bars
-the nobles get used to the amazing life style and become dependent on the king
-cost a fortune

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Revocation of Edict of Nantes

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-bad change b/c he is getting rid of hard working/money making people

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War of Devolution

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1667-1668: France vs. England, Holland, Sweden
-France (Louis XIV) wants the Spanish Netherlands (Belgium)
-he wants it becauseit is on his northern border and b/c is was Spanish so he "had a right to it"
-Louis XIV claimed that the dowry wasn't fully paid, so he would take the land for collaboration
Treaty of Aix-la-chapelle

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the Dutch War

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1672-1678
-William of Orange: leader of Holland; the ringleader of Louis XIV's problem
-Louis buys England off to stay out of war
-English king at time was Charles II
-Holland flooded their country to keep it from Louis XIV
-Treaty of Nijmwegan

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Treaty of Dover

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-secret
-keep English out of war in exchange for money
-this allows Louis XIV to focus on Holland (William of Orange)

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War of the League of Augsburg

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1688-1697: France vs. The League of Augsburg (Holand, England, Sweden, Spain and HRE provinces)
-1688- William of Orange became king of England
-Europe saw Louis XIV as disrupting the "balance of power"
-Louis lost and didn't get what he wanted
-Treaty of Ryswick

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War of Spanish Succession

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1701-1714: France vs. Grand Alliance (everybody)
-Charles II died with no heir and closest living relative was heir to French throne
Treaty of Utrecht

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Treaty of Utrecht

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1. Louis XIV's grandson becomes king of Spain
-Philip V becomes king but cannot be king of France too
2. England gets Acadia (French)- renamed Nova Scotia
3. England gets the Asiento from Spain
-the monopoly to transfer slaves from Africa to Spanish new world (extremely profitable)
4. England gets Gibraltar Island
5. Louis XIV is forced to acknowledge the Hanoverian succession after death of Anne (George I)
6. Margrave of Brandenburg becomes king of Prussia
7. Belgium becomes the Austrian Netherlands
8. the two Italian kingdoms of Savoy and Sardinia are united under a king

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Rise of Russia

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late 1600's - early 1700's
-Russia is frozen in time
-Holland is building the world's largest empire
-Prussia, Sweden
1682: marks rise of power of Czar Peter

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Czar Peter I, the Great

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1689-assumed full power
-very fascinated with Western European technology
~The Grand Tour
1. Baltic Coast
2. Berlin
3. Hanover
4. Amsterdam
-Holland- 4,000 trading ships
-Peter hired shipbuilders here and learned how to build ships
5. Leipzig
6. Dresden
7. Prague
8. Vienna
-the most elegant life style
9. Cracow
~Russian orthodox church was the guardian of tradition
-Peter shaved (mortal sin b/c it ruined the image God gave)
-Peter cut the guards beards off (trying to modernize)
-Charles XII is ruling Sweden

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1st Encounter (Russia and Sweden)

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Russia vs. Sweden
-over Baltic lands
-Sweden won

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The Great Northern War

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2nd Russian vs. Sweden encounter
-Russia won
-Treaty of Nystadt

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Treaty of Nystadt

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1. Peter (Russia) got palace on Baltic Sea
-used land to build St. Petersburg- "Venice of the North"
-Peter's "window to the west"
-changed to capital
-gave Peter access to water that wasn't all frozen
-costly
~had a severe bladder infection
-had surgery to remove gall stones
-dove off his own ship to rescue some of hie soldiers from sinking ship
-caught a cold = fever = coma = death

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patron

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supporter

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acquisition

Back 19

taking of (getting something)

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Succession

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to take throne

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secession

Back 21

withdrawal

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monopoly

Back 22

exclusive right

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Louis XIV

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"sun king" - believes that life in France revolves around him
"L'etat cest moi" - I am the state
-absolutist
-married Maria Theresa
~daughter of Philip IV, king of Spain
-she had to give dowry to marry
-Louis XIV was supposed to leave Spanish territory alone in exchange for dowry

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Charles II

Back 24

-mentally retarded
-dwarf
-impotent
-Spain territory was in danger of getting taken (big threat = France)

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dowry

Back 25

pay or treasure; large sum of money

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hegemony

Back 26

leadership; predominance

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Prussia

Back 27

became kingdom in 1714 by treaty of Utrecht (German provinces)

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Frederick William II

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"the Great Elector"
-Margrave of Brandenburg

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Frederick III/I

Back 29

Margrave
-1st king of Prussia
-King for about a year

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Frederick William I

Back 30

king of Prussia

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Frederick II, the Great

Back 31

-great military genius
-gay
-highly educated

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The Enlightenment/ Age of Reason

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1. reason
2. nature
3. happiness
4. progress
5. liberty

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Enlightened Despots

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1. Catherine, the Great
2. Joseph II
3. Frederick, the Great

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Voltaire

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-"I do not agree with a thing you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it and believe it"
-wrote philosphical letters on the English
-"Candide" -satire on social rules of the day

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deism

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Christians who do not believe in the organization of religion

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Denis Dederot

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Encyclopedia

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Montesquieu

Back 37

-"seperation fo powers"
-rewrote "Spirit of the Laws"

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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-wrote "The Social Contract"
-rely on emotion rather than reason
-gov. has responsibility to do right by people

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1740

Back 39

Maria Theresa and Frederick the Great took power

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The Pragmatic Sanction

Back 40

-Charles VI got European powers to sign
-acknowledge that the rightful heir to Austria is Maria Theresa and leave her land alone
-Fred. Will. signed it, but not Fred II

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War of the Austrian Succession

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Prussia (France and Spain) vs. Austria (England and Holland)
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
-Prussia wins and gets to keep Salisia

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The Diplomatic Revolution

Back 42

Maria Theresa's foreign minister, Klement von Kounitz said they needed to change allies (reversal of friends)
-France and Austria get together through marriage of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI

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