Study Guide
AP Euro Ch. 16 Pgs. 531-559
* All work must be done on a separate sheet(s) of paper and CANNOT BE TYPED!
Please number each term on your paper. This is due the day of the test. Short answers
will reduce credit. The more you write the better prepared you will be on test day.
Define/Identify
Sovereignty
Absolutism
Totalitarianism
Sully
paulette
Cardinal Richelieu
Raison d’etat
Fronde
Mercantilism
French classicism
War of Spanish Succession
Peace of Utrecht
Don Quixote
Constitutionalism
Puritans
Thomas Hobbes
Oliver Cromwell
Navigation Act of 1651
Glorious Revolution
Republican Government
Second Treatise of Civil Government
Cabinet system
States General
Stadholder
Dutch East India Company
Review Questions
1. How did these forms of government differ from the feudal and dynastic
monarchies of earlier centuries?
2. In what sense were these forms “modern”?
3. What social and economic factors limited absolute monarchs?
4. Which Western countries most clearly illustrate the new patterns of political
organization?
5. Why is the seventeenth century considered the “golden age of the Netherlands”?