Chapter 16 Test Study Guide
1. Sovereign State (531)
2. The weaknesses of the French Financial System (539-540)
3. outcomes of the Peace of Utrecht (544)
4. The Fronde (536)
5. Medieval kings claim to rule (532)
6. Political power in the Dutch republic (556)
7. Cause of the War of Spanish Succession (543-544)
8. The decline of Spain in the 17c (544-548)
9. Henry IV’s chief minister (534)
10. French Intendants (535)
11. Richelieu’s constructive genius (534)
12. Guiding force behind Richelieu’s domestic policies (534)
13. The English Navigation Act of 1651 (552)
14. Louis XIII’s decision to destroy Huguenot independence (535)
15. The edict of Nantes (535)
16. Thomas Hobbes (551)
17. The decline of the Dutch economy (559)
18. Struggle between the French crown and the Huguenots in 1627(535)
19. Raison d’etat (536)
20. Mercantilists theory (540)
21. The spark that caused the English Glorious Revolution (553)
22. Colbert’s contributions to the economy of France (540)
23. Louis XIV royal court (538)
24. The strongest and most highly centralized state in Europe in 1685 (539)
25. Dutch overseas imperialism (559)
26. The War of the Spanish Succession (544)
27. French classicism (541-542)
28. Country with the highest living standards in Europe in the mid-17c (559)
29. English society in the 16th and 17th centuries (549)
30. The French army’s increase between 1635 and 1659 (542)
31. The paulette (534)
32. John Locke (554)
33. Treaty of Pyrenees (547)
34. Tartuffe and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (542)
35. Business values of Calvinism (550)
36. Foreign policy under Richelieu (536)
37. Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate (551)
38. Starvation and economic crisis in France in 1688-1694 (543)
39. Charles II’s restoration to the English throne (552)
Be prepared to write an essay on one of the following:
1.
The Spanish monarchy crumbled in the 17c, why?
2.
17c France has been called the model of royal absolutism. How did the French crown
create an absolutist state out of the anarchy of the civil-religious wars of the last half of
the 16c? How absolutist was the French monarchy?