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