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

Influenced by his experiences in Western Europe, upon his return to Russia, Peter the Great ordered that the serfs be emancipated and freed from their boyar lords.

Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau

The "Glorious Revolution" in 1688 in England was significant for

The witchcraft hysteria primarily targeted young, married women.

The economic policies of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's controller general of finances

Which of the following exerted the most influence on Italy by the eighteenth century?

Frederick William the Great Elector built Brandenburg-Prussia into a significant European power by

Gustavus Adolphus, who led the Lutheran armies in the Thirty Years' War until he was killed at Lützen, was king of

John Locke was responsible for

Why did England move toward a limited monarchy while places like Prussia, Austria, and Russia moved toward a more robust and absolutist monarchy?

Define absolutism.To what extent can France's government in the seventeenth century be labeled an absolute monarchy?

The chief reason for the wars of Louis XIV was

After eleven years of personal rule, Charles I was forced to call parliament into session in 1640

Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, developed the first standing army of conscripts, an army notable for its flexible tactics.

What ideas and practices caused conflict between king and Parliament in seventeenth-century England that culminated in civil war? What role did religion play in shaping politics and society during the 1640s and 1650s?

The French playwright Moliére is noted for all of the following EXCEPT

Among other things, the Petition of Right

What were the economic and social problems that troubled Europe from 1560 to 1650? Do these problems constitute a "crisis"?

The first female painter admitted to the Guild of St.Luke in Haarlem and who painted scenes of everyday life was

The English Bill of Rights