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CHAPTER 12
The Age of Religious Wars
Vocabulary
Baroque
Congregationalists
Huguenots
politiques
Presbyterians
puritans
Spanish Armada
Spanish Fury
Events
The French Wars of Religion (1562-1598)
Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (1572)
Edict of Nantes (1598)
Netherlands Independence (1572
Act of Supremacy (1559)
The Thirty-Nine Articles (1563)
Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1587)
Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)
Bohemian Period
Danish period
Swedish period
Swedish-French Period
Peace of Westphalia (1648)
People/Families
Catherine de Medici (France)
Guise (France)
Mary, Queen of Scots
Bourbons (France)
Valois (France)
Henry III(France)
Henry IV (Henry of Navarre) (France)
Philip II (Spain)
Habsburg
William of Orange (Spanish Netherlands)
Ferdinand II (HRE)
Gustavus Adolphus (Sweden)
Charles V (Spain, HRE)
Charles IX
Mary I (England)
Elizabeth I (England)
John Knox (Scotland)
Louis XIII
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Cardinal Armand Richelieu (France)
Literature
First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Terrible Regiment of Women (Knox)
CHAPTER 13
European State Consolidation in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Absolutism and Constitutionalism)
Vocabulary
Dutch East India Co.
Dutch Estates General (States General)
stadholder
Cavaliers
constitutionalism (parliamentary monarchy)
Roundheads
absolutism
“L’etat, c’est moi”
“…one king, one law, one faith…”
divine right
French classicism
Fronde
parlements
noblesse de robe
nobles of the sword
raison d’etat
Versailles
“Exploding the Diet”
Pragmatic Sanction
Bohemian estates
Junkers
autocracy
boyar
strelsky
Cossacks
Table of Ranks
Holy Synod
tsar/czar
sultan
millets
Janissaries
Ulama
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Events
Petition of Right (1628)
Long Parliament (1640-1660)
English Civil War (Puritan Revolution) (1642-1646)
Glorious Revolution (1688)
English Bill of Rights
Edict of Nantes Revoked (1685)
War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
Treaty of Utrecht (1713)
Great Northern War (1700-1721)
Treaty of Nystad (1721)
Treaty of Karlowitz
People/Families
William III of Orange
James I (England)
Charles I (England)
Oliver Cromwell (England)
Charles II (England)
James II (England)
Cardinal Armand Richelieu (France)
Cardinal Jules Mazarin (France)
Louis XIV (France)
Bishop Jacques Bousset (France)
Maria Theresa (HRE)
Hohnzollerns
Frederick William, the Great Elector
Frederick I
Frederick William I
Romanov
Peter I, the Great
Suleiman the Magnificent
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Literature
Leviathan (Hobbs)
Second Treatise of Civil Government (Locke)
The Law of Free Monarch
Practice LEQ Questions
Age of Religious Wars
(1981) Evaluate the relative importance of the religious rivalries and dynastic ambitions that shaped the
course of the Thirty Years War.
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(1999) Discuss the relationship between politics and religion by examining the wars of religion. Choose
TWO specific examples from the following: Dutch Revolt, French Wars of Religion, English Civil War,
Thirty Years’ War.
(2000) “Leadership determines the fate of a country.” Evaluate this quotation in reference to Spain’s
experience under Philip II.
(2002) Compare and contrast the religious policies of TWO of the following: Elizabeth I of England,
Catherine de Medici of France, Isabella I of Spain.
(2007) Analyze the factors that prevented the development of a unified German state in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western Europe
(1979) In the 17th century, England and the Netherlands developed effective capitalist economies, while
Spain did not. Why did the economies develop so differently in England and the Netherlands, on the one
hand, and in Spain, on the other?
(1980) How did the disintegration of the medieval church and the coming of the
Reformation
contribute to the development of nation-states in Western Europe between 1450 and 1648?
(1982) In the seventeenth century, what political conditions accounted for the increased power of both
the parliament in England and the monarchy in France?
(1986) In the 17th century, how did the Dutch Republic compete successfully with France and Spain for
control of overseas territory and trade?
(1987) Analyze the ways in which both the theory and practices of monarchy evolved in England form
the death of Elizabeth I in 1603 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689.
(1992) In 1490 there was no such country as Spain, yet within a century it had become the most
powerful nation in Europe and within another had sunk to the status of a third rate power. Describe and
analyze the major social, economic, and political reasons for Spain’s rise and fall.
(1993) Describe and analyze the changes in the role of Parliament in English politics between the
succession of James I and the Glorious Revolution.
(2002) In what ways and to what extent did absolutism affect the power and status of the European
nobility in the period 1650 to 1750? Use examples from at least TWO countries.
(2003) Louis XIV declared his goal was “one king, one law, one faith.” Analyze the methods the king used
to achieve this objective and discuss the extent to which he was successful.
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(2007) Britain and France were engaged in a geopolitical and economic rivalry during the eighteenth
century. Identify the factors that contributed to this rivalry, and assess the results for both countries over
the period 1689 to 1789.
(2009) Analyze various ways in which the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) represented a turning point in
European society.
(2010) Compare and contrast the economic and social development of Russia with that of the
Netherlands in the period 1600 to 1725.
(2011) Analyze how the political and economic problems of the English and French monarchies led to the
English Civil War and the French Revolution.
Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe
(1989) Analyze the major ways through which Czar Peter the Great (1689-1725) sought to reform his
society and its institutions in order to strengthen Russia and its position in Europe.
(1991) Analyze the military, political, and social factors that account for the rise of Prussia between 1640
and 1786.
(2002) In what ways and to what extent did absolutism affect the power and status of the European
nobility in the period 1650 to 1750? Use examples from at least TWO countries.
(2010) Compare and contrast the economic and social development of Russia with that of the
Netherlands in the period 1600 to 1725.