Terms Unit 3

Question 1

Absolutism

Answer 1

King/Monarch controls all

Question 2

Divine Right

Answer 2

Belief that God gives the ruler power

Question 3

Constitutional Monarchy

Answer 3

Government that limits rulers power

Question 4

Glorious Revolution

Answer 4

bloodless overthrow of King James 2

Question 5

English Civil War

Answer 5

Supporters of Charles the 1st vs. supporters of parliament

Question 6

Royalist/Cavaliers

Answer 6

Supporters of Charles 1

Question 7

“Roundheads”

Answer 7

Opposes of Charles 1 (Puritans of Parliament)

Question 8

Restoration

Answer 8

period of Charles 2 rule

Question 9

Habeas Corpus

Answer 9

guarantee of freedom for prisoners giving them a chance to testify

Question 10

Westernization

Answer 10

The use of Western Europe as a model for a change

Question 11

Thirty Years’ War

Answer 11

Conflict over religion and territory and for power over European ruling families

Question 12

Seven Years’ War

Answer 12

1756-1763 conflict where Britain gained economic domination in India and colonies in North America

Question 13

Boyars

Answer 13

Russia’s landowning nobles

Question 14

Intendants

Answer 14

Government agents who collect taxes and administered justice

Question 15

Skepticism

Answer 15

The idea that nothing can ever be known for certain

Question 16

War of Spanish Succession

Answer 16

The struggle to prevent the union on French and Spanish thrones

Question 17

Absolute Monarch

Answer 17

Kings/Queens who held all power within their states’ boundaries

Question 18

Edict of Nantes

Answer 18

Declaration of religious toleration for Huguenots

Question 19

Geocentric Theory

Answer 19

Belief/idea that earth was the center of the universe

Question 20

Scientific Revolution

Answer 20

A new way of thinking about the natural world (discoveries and circumstances)

Question 21

Heliocentric Theory

Answer 21

Sun was the center of the universe

Question 22

Scientific Method

Answer 22

Logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas

Question 23

Enlightenment

Answer 23

“Age of Reason” -A new intellectual movement that stressed reason and though and the power of individuals to solve problems

Question 24

Philosophes

Answer 24

Social critics during the enlightenment