European Power and Expansion, 1500-1750 Flashcards

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French foreign policy under Cardinal Richelieu focused primarily on what goal?

A) Preventing the Catholic Habsburgs from controlling territories around France
B) Destroying English naval power
C) Protecting the region of Burgundy
D) Expanding the territorial control of France by conquering Bavaria

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Why did Spain's overseas empire begin to lose its economic viability?

A) Disease killed off its sugar crops.
B) Slave rebellions threatened sugar production.
C) Its American silver mines ran out of silver.
D) Portugal challenged Spain's colonial holdings.

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What changed for Europeans as a result of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648?

A) The treaties that established it ended conflicts fought over religious faith.
B) The Holy Roman emperor gained considerable power while the German princes lost influence.
C) Calvinism was made illegal in the empire.
D) The Augsburg agreement of 1555 was abolished, and Lutheranism was made the only legal religion of the empire.

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Which of the following was an important limitation on Louis XIV's power?

A) The terms of the Edict of Nantes
B) The pope's control of the French church
C) The French constitution
D) His need to collaborate with nobles

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Which group led the commoners to rebel against the French government in the Fronde?

A) The landed aristocracy
B) Magistrates in Paris
C) Intendants
D) Women

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Who did the Spanish crown expel in 1609?

A) Moriscos, or former Muslims
B) Jews
C) Landed nobles
D) Calvinists

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Louis XIV believed in what political doctrine?

A) The one versus the many
B) Might makes right
C) The divine right of kings
D) Republicanism

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What was the root cause of the Thirty Years' War?

A) Economic dislocation
B) Conflicts between Catholics and Protestants
C) Political upheaval in France
D) Lutheran-Catholic tensions

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What was the focus of Cardinal Richelieu's domestic policies?

A) Reforming the church
B) Supporting the spread of Protestantism
C) Strengthening royal control
D) Expanding the power of the nobility

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Which order of nuns (founded in the sixteenth century) attained prestige in education for women?

A) Trentines
B) Ursulines
C) Mericis
D) Jesuits

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The Thirty Years' War began with what region in Europe?

A) Sweden
B) Bohemia
C) France
D) The Netherlands

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How did the climate change in Europe during the seventeenth century?

A) It became warmer and wetter.
B) It became warmer and drier.
C) It became colder and wetter.
D) It became colder and drier.

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Martin Luther clashed with what Habsburg emperor?

A) Henry VIII
B) Charles V
C) Paul III
D) Frederick III

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In the seventeenth century, serfdom returned to what region of Europe?

A) Western
B) Central
C) The Low Countries
D) Eastern

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Which of these helps explain Martin Luther's appeal to local German rulers?

A) Luther promised greater taxes and loyalty to local rulers.
B) Luther emphasized a conservative role for women.
C) Luther frequently used the phrase "we Germans" to appeal to national feelings.
D) Local German princes supported education and learning.

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What happened on Saint Bartholomew's Day, August 24, 1572?

A) Catholic opponents of England's Henry VIII revolted.
B) Protestant supporters of Henry of Navarre attacked Catholics.
C) French peasants rose against unfair taxes and tithes.
D) French Catholics attacked Calvinists at the wedding of the king's sister.

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Why was absenteeism a problem in the early sixteenth century?

A) Priests hired to fill the benefices were often of poor quality and poorly paid.
B) Absent landlords had little idea of the agricultural conditions of the season.
C) Fathers were absent for long periods as they traveled to earn money to support their family.
D) Rulers left on long campaigns and lost touch with the needs of their people.

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In 1688, Spain recognized the independence of what country?

A) The Netherlands
B) Portugal
C) Mexico
D) France

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What did the Peace of Augsburg of 1555 establish in the Holy Roman Empire?

A) It recognized Catholicism as the only legal religion and outlawed Lutheranism and all other Protestant faiths in the region.
B) It declared German to be the national language of the empire.
C) It gave princes the right to elect emperors.
D) It officially recognized Lutheranism and allowed authorities in each region to decide whether the territory would be Catholic or Lutheran.

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How does this illustration reflect the impact of the fur trade on the lives of Native Americans?

A) It created tensions between rival groups as evidenced by the armed confrontation in the background.
B) The lack of agricultural land suggests a reduction in the emphasis on agriculture.
C) It exacerbated tensions between European colonists and Native Americans.
D) The fur trade had little impact on Native Americans.

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What nation was Colbert hoping to compete with when he created the Company of the East Indies?

A) The Dutch Republic
B) England
C) Spain
D) Portugal

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Who held the political power in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century?

A) The central government
B) An oligarchy of wealthy businessmen
C) The stadholder and his royal courtiers
D) A democratically elected States-General

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Who ruled England under the Protectorate?

A) William and Mary of Orange
B) Oliver Cromwell
C) The Rump Parliament
D) Charles II

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Which of the following was a consequence of the Peace of Utrecht?

A) It opened a new era of French expansion.
B) It was the first of a series of setbacks in the history of the British Empire.
C) It left the Spanish succession in turmoil.
D) It marked the end of Louis XIV's expansion in Europe.

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Based on Map 18.3, "Europe After the Peace of Utrecht, 1715," which territory remained the most stable in terms of territory retained or expanded between the end of the Thirty Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession?

A) Prussia
B) France
C) Spain
D) Austria

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In the late seventeenth century, the Austrian Habsburgs drove what rival empire out of Hungary?

A) The Ottomans
B) Bohemia
C) Russia
D) Germany

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According to the map "European Claims in North America, 1714," what advantage did the French have over the British and Spanish in colonizing much of North America?

A) Much of their colonization took place in a warmer climate, easing the stress of moving quickly over large stretches of territory.
B) They were able to avoid contact with their European counterparts as they colonized.
C) They had unfettered access to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.
D) They experienced little contact, and thus little warfare, with Native Americans.

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Charles I frequently clashed with what group?

A) Catholics throughout England
B) The Stuart family
C) The House of Commons
D) The Church of England

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In the early seventeenth century, what reforms did the English Puritans desire?

A) They wanted all people to be required to attend the Church of England.
B) They sought a resurgence of Roman Catholicism.
C) They wanted to eliminate Crown-appointed bishops from the Church of England.
D) They wanted to be granted special tax exemptions by the Crown.

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In the early seventeenth century, King James I of England advocated what political idea?

A) That kings had absolute power by divine right
B) That parliamentary government was the best form of government
C) That the primary function of the state was warfare
D) That kings gained sovereignty through an implicit contract with those they ruled

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Which of the following characterizes mercantilist governmental policies?

A) They advocated that governments should not interfere in the local economy.
B) They suggested that a nation should be materially rich with more trade imports than exports.
C) They argued that manufactured goods should be produced inexpensively by local colonial labor.
D) They suggested that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, especially its gold supply.

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The Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought an end to what in England?

A) Monarchy
B) The hopes for democracy
C) Privileges for the aristocracy
D) The theory of divine right monarchy

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What did the Triennial Act, passed in 1641 by the House of Commons, establish?

A) The Long Parliament
B) That Parliament was opposed to the extra-legal taxes of Charles I
C) That the king summon Parliament every three years
D) That only Parliament could intervene in Scotland

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The incredible detail of this portrait, including the magnificent clothing, royal scepter, and sword, is intended to reflect which of the following?

A) The splendor of the Spanish court
B) The absolutist power wielded by King Louis XIV
C) The power of the French monarchy heading into the Thirty Years' War
D) The feelings of Louis XIV against the notion of divine right

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What was Louis XIV's military goal in Europe?

A) To take as much territory from Spain as he could
B) To capture England and its colonies in the Americas
C) To capture as many trade ports as possible
D) To expand France to what he considered its natural borders

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In 1649, after the execution of Charles I, England was initially declared which of the following?

A) A military dictatorship
B) A theocracy
C) A democracy
D) A commonwealth

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Which of these was a member of the Grand Alliance of 1701?

A) France
B) Prussia
C) Russia
D) Spain

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Under what dynasty did Prussia emerge as a strong state in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

A) Hohenzollerns
B) Habsburgs
C) Bourbons
D) Jacobins

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What did Louis XIV revoke in 1685?

A) The Peace of Augsburg
B) The Edict of Nantes
C) The Estates General
D) The Fronde Settlement

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What was an important consequence of the Thirty Years' War for the Austrian Habsburgs?

A) They began a quest for imperial dominance of central Europe.
B) They accepted a Protestant representative assembly.
C) They turned inward and eastward in an attempt to unify their power.
D) They allowed self-rule in Bohemia in return for the breakup of the Bohemian Estates.

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How did the Austrian Habsburgs build their power after the Thirty Years' War?

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What were the Navigation Acts of 1651?

A) They gave British merchants and shipowners a monopoly on trade with British colonies.
B) They declared a British blockade of France.
C) They established fair trading rules between the Dutch, French, and British.
D) They were designed to protect the thirteen colonies.

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To what does the term Time of Troubles refer?

A) The Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire
B) The Russian reference to the Fronde uprising in France
C) The civil war between Parliament and King Charles I in England
D) The royal succession crisis and civil war in Russia

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What problems have led historians to describe the seventeenth century in Europe as an Age of Crisis?

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As England moved toward constitutionalism, how close did the reforms come to instituting the ideas of John Locke?

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How are the territorial ambitions of Peter the Great reflected in Map 18.5, "The Expansion of Russia, 1462-1689"?

A) He greatly desired access to the Baltic and Black Seas.
B) He viewed control of Siberia as crucial to Russia's future expansion.
C) He highly valued access to inland waterways.
D) He valued eastward expansion more than westward expansion.

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How did English and French colonies in the Americas relate to one another? What events in Europe affected that relationship?

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How did the Thirty Years' War affect the balance of power in Europe in the seventeenth century?

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Between 1673 and 1682, the French explored and occupied what New World territory?

A) Louisiana
B) Quebec
C) Hispaniola
D) Nova Scotia

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How did Ivan the Terrible alter Russia's social class system?

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Why was the English monarchy restored after the civil war? What problems was it supposed to fix, and what problems did it cause?

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What were some of the problems that hampered the attempts by seventeenth-century European governments to centralize?

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The first permanent French settlement at Quebec was founded as

A) a fur trading post.
B) a colony for Huguenots.
C) an agricultural settlement.
D) a port of resupply for further exploration.

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What region did the Romanov tsars add to their territorial holdings?

A) Hungary
B) Lithuania
C) Siberia
D) Sweden

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What was an important aspect of Peter the Great's tour of western Europe?

A) He employed spies to steal industrial technology.
B) He decided he would model his rule after the French example.
C) He began to focus mostly on introducing capitalism into Russia.
D) He was particularly impressed by the power of the Dutch and English.

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Why did Western Christendom break into many divisions in the sixteenth century?

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The negative reputation of Ivan the Terrible grew from his violent treatment of what group?

A) The leading boyar families
B) Jews in Russia
C) Catholic priests
D) Intellectuals in the Russian middle class

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In what ways did Louis XIV collaborate with others to maintain his power?

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What was the main reason the princes of Moscow were able to expand their power and rule Russia?

A) They had great wealth and landholdings.
B) They possessed superb military prowess and weapons.
C) They cooperated with the Mongols.
D) They converted to Orthodox Christianity.

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What country did Peter the Great defeat at the Battle of Poltava?

A) Poland
B) Austria
C) Sweden
D) Latvia

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Bill of Rights of 1689

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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republicanism

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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In what ways was Louis XIV a model of royal absolutism?

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Use the following to answer questions:
mercantilism

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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Use the following to answer questions:
Cossacks

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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What were the political, economic, and religious factors and events that ultimately led to the Glorious Revolution?

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Use the following to answer questions:
absolutism

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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Use the following to answer questions:
Jesuits

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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Compare the development of absolutism in Austria and Spain. What factors influenced the development of each state? What were the similarities and differences in the development of absolutism in these two states?

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Use the following to answer questions:
moral economy

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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Use the following to answer questions:
Protestant Reformation

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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Use the following to answer questions:
sovereignty

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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Thirty Years' War

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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divine right of kings

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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Explain the concept of mercantilism. Give concrete examples of governments pursuing mercantilist policies.

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constitutionalism

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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Navigation Acts

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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Puritans

A)A religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century and split the Western Christian Church.
B)Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith through schools and missionary activity.
C)The early modern European view that community needs predominated over competition and profit and that necessary goods should thus be sold at a fair price.
D)A large-scale conflict extending from 1618 to 1648 that pitted Protestants against Catholics in central Europe, but also involved dynastic interests, notably of Spain and France.
E)Authority of states that possess a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force within clearly defined boundaries and in which private armies present no threat to central control.
F)A political system common to early modern Europe in which monarchs claimed exclusive power to make and enforce laws, without checks by other institutions; this system was limited in practice by the need to maintain legitimacy and compromise with elites.
G)The belief propagated by absolutist monarchs in Europe that they derived their power from God and were only answerable to him.
H)A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state derived from the belief that a nation's international power was based on its wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver.
I)A form of government in which power is limited by law and balanced between the authority and power of the government, on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of the subject or citizen, on the other; it includes constitutional monarchies and republics.
J)Members of a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that advocated purifying it of Roman Catholic elements, such as bishops, elaborate ceremonials, and wedding rings.
K)A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
L)A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.
M)Mid-seventeenth-century English mercantilist laws that greatly restricted other countries' rights to trade with England and its colonies.
N)Free groups and outlaw armies living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. In the mid-sixteenth century they formed an alliance with the Russian state.

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Deck 18: European Power and Expansion, 1500-1750