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CLEP Western Civilization II: Absolutism And Constitutionalism
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1. 'emphasized the complete authority of a nation's ruler' REA p. 4.
Absolutism
Great Elector - Frederick William - Frederick I - and Frederick William I
Brandenburg-Prussia
Oliver Cromwell
2. Minister to Louis XIII. Powerful secretary of state in France. (1585-1642)
Levellers
Rembrandt
Tories
Cardinal Richelieu
3. Believed in the divine right of kings - but knew they could not rule everything.
Rembrandt
Thirty Years' War
Charles II and James II
William III of Orange
4. Sparked by Charles the first when he wanted to arrest some memebers of Parliment for treason.
1649
English Civil War
James I
English Bill of Rights
5. The soldiers of the king in the English Civil War.
Dutch East India Company
Dutch Republic
Levellers
Cavaliers
6. The strongest German state that emerged from the Thirty years war. center of present day Germany.
Levellers
Treaty of Westphalia
Great Elector - Frederick William - Frederick I - and Frederick William I
Brandenburg-Prussia
7. After the thirty years was this country was in a position to become a dominant power. The war was NOT fought on their soil.
Rump Parliment
Junkers
Thirty Years' War
France
8. 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
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9. Laid foundation of Germany. gained favor from the Prussian nobels . organized bureaucracy. built a powerful army.
Roundheads
France
Treaty of Westphalia
Great Elector - Frederick William - Frederick I - and Frederick William I
10. The side of Parliment in the English Civil War. Part of the New Model Army. Their leader was Oliver Cromwell.
English Civil War
Absolutism
Charles II and James II
Roundheads
11. Peter I fought the Swedish with skills learned from them!
Levellers
Rump Parliment
Northern War
Bare Bones Parliament
12. 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'
James I
Junkers
English Bill of Rights
Tsar Peter the Great
13. 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
Levellers
John Locke
Roundheads
Austro-Hungarian Empire
14. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Louis XIV
Thomas Hobbs
Bare Bones Parliament
15. Famous painter of landscapes and portraits.
Thomas Hobbs
France
Rembrandt
English Civil War
16. (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
English Bill of Rights
Louis XIV
Junkers
1649
17. Invaded England in the Glorious Revolution. Crowned in 1689.
Rembrandt
Divine right of Kings
William III of Orange
Edict of Nantes
18. Charles II supporters who wanted to prevent his brother the Catholic James from the throne. James' supporters were called Whigs.
James I
1649
Thirty Years' War
Tories
19. Leader of the roundheads in the English Civil War. Called Protector of England - Scotland - and Ireland in 1653.
Louis XIV
Edict of Nantes
Junkers
Oliver Cromwell
20. Tutored Louis XIV. wrote Politics Drawn for the Very Words of Scripture. Believe in the Divine right of kings.
Bishop Bossuet
Bare Bones Parliament
Cavaliers
English Bill of Rights
21. Contained radical ethinic group like the Muslims. The empire was rarely stable.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Charles I
Dutch East India Company
Brandenburg-Prussia
22. Members in a purge of Parliment who believe that the Rump Parliment was not helping society be godly.
Bare Bones Parliament
Great Elector - Frederick William - Frederick I - and Frederick William I
Brandenburg-Prussia
Dutch Republic
23. Said if the king wanted to pass law - Parliment had to agree.
English Bill of Rights
Divine right of Kings
Petition of Right
James I
24. Pussia's nobles. Had rights over serf's labor. Given exemptions from taxes.
Great Elector - Frederick William - Frederick I - and Frederick William I
Louis XIV
Charles I
Junkers
25. 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
Bare Bones Parliament
James I
William III of Orange
Petition of Right
26. 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.
James I
John Locke
Louis XIV
English Bill of Rights
27. Son of James I tried to raise money without the approval of Parliment. Parliment then passed a petition.
Charles I
Louis XIV
Petition of Right
Cardinal Richelieu
28. Destroyed the upper part of Parliment (house of lords) and the monarchy.
Northern War
Rump Parliment
Cavaliers
Junkers
29. 'established to conduct trade in Asia and served as a model to the English and French' REA p. 9
English Bill of Rights
Cardinal Richelieu
Dutch East India Company
Oliver Cromwell
30. Englishmen who wanted all to be able to vote.
Tsar Peter the Great
Levellers
Brandenburg-Prussia
English Bill of Rights
31. The year that England became a republic and the year the Charles I was executed.
1649
Cardinal Richelieu
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Cavaliers
32. Kings are chosen by God. King gets his power from God - therfore no one can give him any criticism.
Junkers
Divine right of Kings
Petition of Right
Charles II and James II
33. States of a confederacy. Holland was the strongest. They could trade internationally from Amsterdam.
Dutch East India Company
Dutch Republic
1649
France
34. Allowed some religious freedom for the Huguenots
Edict of Nantes
English Civil War
Northern War
English Bill of Rights
35. 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
James I
John Locke
Petition of Right
Treaty of Westphalia