Exam 15: State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

What role did court life at Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV playing in enhancing royal power?

Compare the reigns of Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia and Peter the Great of Russia. How are their policies similar? How are they different?

What important political idea has been credited to John Locke?

What was the most destructive war in European history up until the middle of the seventeenth century?

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. States General

Which artistic style reflected the anxiety and turmoil associated with the Reformation and European wars?

The Thirty Years' War has often been called the "last of the religious wars."

What was Thomas Hobbes' response to the English revolutions?

By the turn of the eighteenth century, more and more people were finding it hard to believe in witchcraft.

Peter the Great's ambition was to make Russia more like

The Spanish defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Lepanto.

Define absolutism. Is it accurate to describe the French national government in the seventeenth century as an absolute monarchy?

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Louis XIV's wars

Leopold I's policy of eastward expansion was challenged by

Which uprising in France nearly overthrew Louis XIV early in his reign?

What was one of the provisions of the Petition of Right (1628)?

Which state threatened Vienna in 1529 and again in 1683?

Lope de Vega was a leading Spanish playwright.

Louis XIV restructured the administration of the French government by all of the following EXCEPT

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Thirty Years' War