“The Queen has reigned already twenty-six years, and during her reign Parliament has never
been held. This year she enters her fifty-third year, as it is said, and she has sent orders through
the whole realm to convoke Parliament. The principal cause is, I am told, that the English do not
wish the King of Scotland, who is the next to the throne, to be King of England, and wish to know
who after the queen’s death is to wear the crown. I have forgotten the exact date, but I believe
the opening of Parliament took place on November 25th.” Leopold von Wedel, 1584
According to this passage, why did Queen Elizabeth order Parliament to meet?
According to this passage, what had never happened during Queen Elizabeth’s twenty-six
year reign?
According to this passage, the English did not want the ____ as their next ruler.
“Saint-Germain he [King Louis XIV] abandoned; unique Saint-Germain, with its combination of
superb vistas and the vast stretches of forest that lie close beside; Saint-Germain, with its fine
views, trees, soil and situation, its abundance of springs, its lovely gardens, its hills and terraces,
its capabilities that might have been extended to include the beauties and convenience of the
Seine. There was a city ready-made, whose site alone provided it with all that man could desire.
All this, I say, he abandoned for Versailles, that most dismal and thankless of spots, without
vistas, woods, or water, without soil, even, for all the surrounding land is quicksand or bog, and
the air cannot be healthy.” Louis de Rouvroy Duc de Saint-Simon
According to this passage, King Louis XIV chose to _____________.
According to this passage, what was the “city ready-made?”
According to this passage, what made Versailles “the most dismal and thankless of spots?”
“Hence it is evident that absolute monarchy, which by some men is counted the only government
in the world, is indeed inconsistent with civil society, and so can be no form of civil government
at all; for the end of civil society being to avoid and remedy those inconveniences of the state of
nature which necessarily follow from every man being judge in his own case, by setting up a
known authority, to which everyone of that society may appeal upon any injury received or
controversy that may arise, and which everyone of the society ought to obey. Wherever any
persons are who have not such an authority to appeal to for the decision of any difference
between them, there those persons are still in the state of nature; and so is every absolute prince,
in respect of those who are under his dominion.” John Locke, Second Treatise of
Government, 1690
According to this passage, absolute monarchy is inconsistent with ____.
According to this passage, how did Locke describe “the state of nature?”
“There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care for my subjects, and
that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety, than myself. For it is
my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign should be for your good. And though
you have had and may have many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, you never
had nor shall have any that will be more careful and loving.”Queen Elizabeth I, from The
Golden Speech
How would you describe Queen Elizabeth’s tone in this passage?
According to this passage, what would Queen Elizabeth give up for the good and safety of
her people?
“It is God who establishes kings. They thus act as ministers of God and his lieutenants on earth.
It is through them that he rules. This is why we have seen that the royal throne is not the throne
of a man, but the throne of God himself. It appears from this that the person of kings is sacred,
and to move against them is a crime. Since their power comes from on high, kings . . . should
exercise it with fear and restraint as a thing which has come to them from God, and for which
God will demand an account.” Western Civilization, Margaret L. King, 2000
According to this passage, what is the role of kings?
According to this passage, with what should kings exercise their power?
As the leaders of the Holy Roman Empire, the Hapsburgs of Austria tried to unify the countries
under their rule by converting their populations to Catholicism. In Bohemia (present-day Czech
Republic), Catholics and Protestants had once coexisted in peace. However, when a Hapsburg
monarch closed the Protestant churches there, civil war broke out. This conflict ignited the
Thirty Years’ War, which raged from 1618 to 1648.
According to this passage, where had Catholics and Protestants once lived in peace?
How did the Hapsburgs try to unify the people they ruled?
According to this passage, what ignited the Thirty Years’ War?
What demonstrated the strength of the Bohemians’ attachment to their culture?
“Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late
Cardinal. It is now time that I govern them myself. You [secretaries and ministers of state] will
assist me with your counsels when I ask for them. I request and order you to seal no orders
except by my command. I order you not to sign anything, not even a passport without my
command; to render account to me personally each day and to favor no one.”Louis XIV
What orders does Louis XIV give in this statement?
Which was the largest country under the rule of Philip II?
Who ruled the Austrian Hapsburg lands?
In which territory did the Battle of Lepanto take place?
From pages 211 – 214
1. The house of ____ ruled the southern French kingdom of Navarre.
2. Philip II of Spain was known as the
3. Seven percent of the total French population were ____.
4. The Edict of Nantes recognized Catholicism as the official religion of France, and
____________________________ .
5. The French Wars of Religion finally ended when __________________ of Navarre was
crowned king.
6. By the end of the sixteenth century, power in Europe had shifted from Spain to
____________________ and France.
The Spanish fleets shipwrecked of the coast of ____.
Where was the Spanish Armada engaged in battle ____.
To which city did the Spanish fleets return?
From pages 216 – 221
1. During the 1600s, ____________________ destroyed both the king and Parliament
of England.
2. James I of England believed in the divine right of kings, which is
3. The ____ were Protestants in England who were inspired by Calvinist ideas.
4. Oliver Cromwell’s defeat of the king’s forces allowed him to __________ .
5. The foundation for a constitutional monarchy in England was laid by the
_______________ .
6. The Thirty Years’ War involved all the major European powers except which
nation?
7. The Rump Parliament was
8. What was the “Glorious Revolution”?
9. The ____ granted Puritans, but not Catholics, the right of public worship.
From pages 223 – 229
1. What is absolutism?
2. Louis XIV maintained complete authority as monarch by __________ .
3. Cardinal Richelieu strengthened the power of the monarchy by _______ .
4. ____ sought to increase the wealth and power of France by following the ideas of
mercantilism.
5. The first Russian ruler to take the title of czar was ____________________.
6. Louis XIV was greatly influenced by Cardinal ____________________ during the first
eighteen years of his reign.
From pages 230 – 233
1. The ideas of ____ can be found in the American Declaration of Independence and the
United States Constitution.
2. The style of painting known as ____ is known for its use of dramatic effects to arouse the
emotions.
3. The work of William Shakespeare is perhaps the best example of ____ literature.
4. Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome is an example of the work of ____________ .
5. The Spanish playwright who composed perhaps 1,500 plays was
6. ____________________ believed humans were guided not by reason and moral ideals,
but by a ruthless struggle for self-preservation.