Exam 16: The Rise of Sovereignty Transition to the Modern State

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. What factors explain the dramatic increase of Spanish power in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the dramatic decline in Spanish power in the seventeenth century?

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s) Locate and label the lands belonging to the Austrian Hapsburgs, the Spanish Hapsburgs, and the Hohenzollerns.

The descendents of Ferdinand and Isabella married into which non-Spanish family to create an empire extending from Austria to the Pacific?

Louis XIV's government included all the following EXCEPT

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? stadholder

What events were part of the constitutional crisis England faced in the seventeenth century?

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. The French monarchy of the seventeenth century became a model for absolutism. Explain this development.

Which of the following statements concerning the reign of Philip II is NOT accurate?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? New Christians

By 1715, all of the following were true of France EXCEPT

In the period roughly from 1500 to 1750

In the Glorious Revolution, William of Orange and the Dutch accepted the invitation of the English Parliament because it would secure their

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? constitutional monarchy

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. The engine that drove the development of the centralized European state was war. Make an argument to support or refute this statement, and defend it with specific evidence.

Which of the following helped usher in the modern world, according to the text?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? raison d'état

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? absolutism

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? intendants

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Time of Troubles

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Versailles