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CLEP Western Civilization II: Absolutism And Constitutionalism
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1. Members in a purge of Parliment who believe that the Rump Parliment was not helping society be godly.
Junkers
France
Bare Bones Parliament
Dutch East India Company
2. Famous painter of landscapes and portraits.
Dutch Republic
Rembrandt
Absolutism
William III of Orange
3. Contained radical ethinic group like the Muslims. The empire was rarely stable.
Thomas Hobbs
France
Thirty Years' War
Austro-Hungarian Empire
4. Sparked by Charles the first when he wanted to arrest some memebers of Parliment for treason.
Oliver Cromwell
Austro-Hungarian Empire
English Civil War
Junkers
5. Leader of the roundheads in the English Civil War. Called Protector of England - Scotland - and Ireland in 1653.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Oliver Cromwell
Louis XIV
Treaty of Westphalia
6. Destroyed the upper part of Parliment (house of lords) and the monarchy.
Rump Parliment
Northern War
Rembrandt
Brandenburg-Prussia
7. 'established to conduct trade in Asia and served as a model to the English and French' REA p. 9
Louis XIV
Dutch East India Company
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Tories
8. After the thirty years was this country was in a position to become a dominant power. The war was NOT fought on their soil.
Oliver Cromwell
Petition of Right
English Bill of Rights
France
9. The side of Parliment in the English Civil War. Part of the New Model Army. Their leader was Oliver Cromwell.
English Bill of Rights
Roundheads
Oliver Cromwell
Junkers
10. Had different ideas than Bossuet and Hobbes. The ruler should only rule unless people trust him. The ruler should respect the rights of people (life - liberty - and property) and if that ruler was no longer trustworthy that the people had a right to
John Locke
Great Elector - Frederick William - Frederick I - and Frederick William I
English Civil War
Edict of Nantes
11. States of a confederacy. Holland was the strongest. They could trade internationally from Amsterdam.
Bare Bones Parliament
James I
Brandenburg-Prussia
Dutch Republic
12. Kings are chosen by God. King gets his power from God - therfore no one can give him any criticism.
Divine right of Kings
Rembrandt
Bare Bones Parliament
Louis XIV
13. Tutored Louis XIV. wrote Politics Drawn for the Very Words of Scripture. Believe in the Divine right of kings.
Petition of Right
Bishop Bossuet
John Locke
France
14. The strongest German state that emerged from the Thirty years war. center of present day Germany.
1649
Dutch Republic
Brandenburg-Prussia
Thomas Hobbs
15. Invaded England in the Glorious Revolution. Crowned in 1689.
Rembrandt
William III of Orange
Brandenburg-Prussia
Charles I
16. Minister to Louis XIII. Powerful secretary of state in France. (1585-1642)
Oliver Cromwell
Absolutism
Cardinal Richelieu
Rump Parliment
17. Argued for absolutism. Wrote Leviathan. Tried to solve the problem of peoples' miserable lives. Said people gave their power to 'leviathan' the higher authority - who makes order and peace.
English Civil War
Thomas Hobbs
John Locke
Brandenburg-Prussia
18. Charles II supporters who wanted to prevent his brother the Catholic James from the throne. James' supporters were called Whigs.
Brandenburg-Prussia
Thomas Hobbs
William III of Orange
Tories
19. The year that England became a republic and the year the Charles I was executed.
Edict of Nantes
Brandenburg-Prussia
1649
Tories
20. 1628. Claimed that the English had basic rights that the king could'nt take over - Document prepared by Parliament and signed by King Charles I of England in 1628; challenged the idea of the divine right of kings and declared that even the monarch wa
Junkers
Absolutism
Bishop Bossuet
Petition of Right
21. Believed in the divine right of kings - but knew they could not rule everything.
Dutch Republic
France
Dutch East India Company
Charles II and James II
22. Ended the Thirty Years war. made religious changes permanent that had come with the Protestant Reformation. Rulers were allowed authority to choose the religion of the region they ruled. This treaty also showed the decline of the papacy. (pope opposi
Treaty of Westphalia
Great Elector - Frederick William - Frederick I - and Frederick William I
Tories
Junkers
23. Peter I fought the Swedish with skills learned from them!
Northern War
Tsar Peter the Great
Dutch East India Company
Bare Bones Parliament
24. Englishmen who wanted all to be able to vote.
Brandenburg-Prussia
Cavaliers
Thirty Years' War
Levellers
25. Insisted that Parliament was there only to advise him and that he ruled by divine right. He never acted on his claims so trouble was avoided until his son became ruler.
Northern War
English Bill of Rights
James I
Tories
26. Said if the king wanted to pass law - Parliment had to agree.
English Bill of Rights
Dutch Republic
Thirty Years' War
Charles I
27. Son of James I tried to raise money without the approval of Parliment. Parliment then passed a petition.
English Civil War
Northern War
Charles I
Bare Bones Parliament
28. Wanted Russia to catch up with the west. He made the men in upper classes shave their beards. Made Russia's army strong. Built St. Petersburg. 'window to Europe'
Charles I
Tsar Peter the Great
France
Dutch East India Company
29. The soldiers of the king in the English Civil War.
Cavaliers
English Bill of Rights
Rembrandt
Louis XIV
30. Pussia's nobles. Had rights over serf's labor. Given exemptions from taxes.
Brandenburg-Prussia
Junkers
Great Elector - Frederick William - Frederick I - and Frederick William I
Levellers
31. 1618-1648. called 'war of religion' The interests actually had more to do with politics than with theology. There was no separation between church and state in the early 1600s. Theology got wrapped into politics
32. Allowed some religious freedom for the Huguenots
Absolutism
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Edict of Nantes
Dutch East India Company
33. 'emphasized the complete authority of a nation's ruler' REA p. 4.
Absolutism
Bishop Bossuet
Oliver Cromwell
Roundheads
34. (1637-1715) became king in 1661. Wanted to have complete power. He never had power over everything - but he did have much power. Said 'I am the state'. Built Versailles where the noble were invited to basically serve the king. He took the power of ma
Charles I
Louis XIV
Roundheads
France
35. Laid foundation of Germany. gained favor from the Prussian nobels . organized bureaucracy. built a powerful army.
Brandenburg-Prussia
Cavaliers
Bishop Bossuet
Great Elector - Frederick William - Frederick I - and Frederick William I