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L’Baguette,
C’est Moi
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Shave
My
Beard
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Ugly
Chins and
Inbred
Children
Don’t
Hurt my
Tall
Soldiers
Fun is
Illegal
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FINAL
JEOPARDY
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What was the ruling family in
France during the age of
absolutism?
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The Bourbons
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Who was the financial advisor to
Louis XIV and the father of
mercantilism?
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert
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What actions did Cardinal
Richelieu take against the
Huguenots?
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He forbade their fortifications and
armies
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What significant childhood event
greatly influenced Louis XIV?
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The Fronde
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Who was the successor to
Richelieu and the advisor to the
young Louis XIV?
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Cardinal Mazarin
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What are Russian nobles called?
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Boyars
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Catherine the Great expanded
Russia westward at the expense
of what nation?
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Poland
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Who did Peter the Great defeat in
order to expand his empire
Westward?
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Sweden
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Who was the ruling family in
Russia during the age of
absolutism?
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The Romanovs
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This tsar was the first of the
Romanov dynasty.
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Michael Romanov
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After the Thirty Years War, the
Hapsburgs’ power was focused in
what German state?
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Austria
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The Pragmatic Sanction secured
the inheritance of the throne to
what monarch?
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Maria Theresa
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What state attacked Austria
during the War of Austrian
Succession?
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Prussia
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The Thirty Years War originally
started as a conflict between
what two religions (and be
specific)?
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Calvinism and Catholicism
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This event started the Thirty
Years War
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The Defenestration of Prague
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This institution was the center of
Prussian society
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The military
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This Hohenzollern leader took
Silesia from Austria during the
War of Austrian Succession.
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Frederick II “The Great”
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What are Prussian nobles called?
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Junkers
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How did the Hohenzollerns
control the Prussian nobility?
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Gave them more power—in the
military and over their serfs
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This monarch made Prussia’s
army the best in Europe, but
never used it.
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Frederick William I
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Name the ruling family that took
power in England after the death
of Elizabeth I.
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The Stuarts
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In the English Civil War, what
were followers of Parliament
called?
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Roundheads
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This king tried to rule without
Parliament for 11 years, and then
was executed at the end of the
English Civil War.
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Charles I
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Philip II won the Battle of Lepanto
over which nation?
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The Ottoman Turks
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England during the Protectorate
was ruled by what leader?
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Oliver Cromwell
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Nobility
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Other than the Palace at
Versailles, list TWO other ways
that the French monarchs
controlled the nobility.
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Used Intendants
Sold titles of nobility (Nobles of
the Robe)
Did not tax them
Did not call the Estates General