Exam 19: Consolidation and Conflict in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean 1450 - 1750

In the conflict between the Ottomans and the Safavids, cities such as Baghdad were the key battlegrounds because

French incursions into the Spanish Netherlands and then Germany under Louis XIV earned the king the nickname the

The waning of Ottoman sea supremacy was marked by the Battle of _________, where the Ottomans were defeated by a large force of Hapsburgs.

Motivations for the Spanish attack on the British Isles in 1588 did NOT include

In the late 15^th century, Venice faced a genuine rival in the Mediterranean in the

In essence, the Thirty Years' War was fought over

The tax-exempt military class was called the

Oliver Cromwell, who styled himself the Lord Protector of England, proved to be a

The Council of Trent, which yielded a new charter for the Roman Catholic Church,

The Barbary pirates were able to continue operations without fear of coordinated attack by Europe because of

Women dominated the familial and sexual life of the Ottoman sultan as early as the mid-sixteenth century, with ____________ being particularly influential.

In early modern Europe, one in _______ women died in childbirth.

A major contributor to the Little Ice Age was

The expedition to and siege of _________ displayed Suleiman's naval capacity.

By the late 1570s, most of those captured by the pirates along North Africa were

Unrest in the Ottoman empire in the decades around 1600 was caused by

A key reason that many peasants moved to cities in England was

Women were treated as inferiors under Ottoman rule; they had ___________ to divorce than women in most early modern European societies.

The term Sephardim refers to Jewish

The Ottoman program of conscription of Christian youths from eastern Europe was called the