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

During the first English revolution, the radicals sought

When Charles V ascended the Spanish throne, the manufacturing and banking center of the Spanish empire was

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Gallican church

The two most common forms of government in early modern Europe were

As Spain declined in the seventeenth century

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

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

The Dutch state combined all the following EXCEPT

The Reformation had a major political impact on the Holy Roman Empire, among other reasons, because

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.

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?

Absolutism in Prussia was based on an alliance between the king and

The usual founder of a ruling dynasty was

Medieval French kings did all of the following EXCEPT

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

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Compare and contrast the ambitions of Philip II and Louis XIV. How successful was each in achieving his aims?

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

With the Treaty of Westphalia, Spain officially recognized the independence of

Which city replaced Antwerp as northern Europe's leasing commercial and banking city?

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