Absolute Monarchs

Question 1

What country failed to develop a middle class in the 1500’s because the tax burden on the lower classes prevented their ability to begin businesses?

Answer 1

Spain

Question 2

Who wrote Don Quixote

Answer 2

Cervantes

Question 3

Who replaced the Italians as the bankers of Europe

Answer 3

the dutch

Question 4

William of Orange helped free what country from what Spanish control?

Answer 4

The Netherlands

Question 5

Philip II believed it was his duty to defend what religion from its enemies in Europe and the Ottoman Empire

Answer 5

Catholicism

Question 6

What republic formed in the 16th century was an unusual type of government for Europe

Answer 6

The United Provinces of Netherlands

Question 7

What country’s Armada was defeated by the English navy

Answer 7

Spain

Question 8

What was the name of Louis XIV’s palace

Answer 8

Versailles

Question 9

Who was known as the sun king

Answer 9

Louis XIV

Question 10

who was the minister to Louis XIV whose polices drove nobles to rebel against a boy king

Answer 10

Mazarin

Question 11

Who was the minister to Louis XII who took steps to strengthen the power of the monarchy at the expense of the Huguenots and the nobility?

Answer 11

Richelieu

Question 12

what group fought against Catholics in eight wars in France between 1562 and 1598

Answer 12

Huguenots

Question 13

What conflict made France the most powerful country in Europe

Answer 13

Thirty Years War

Question 14

Who was a writer who became a skeptic and developed the essay form

Answer 14

Montaigne

Question 15

Who was the Protestant prince who became a Catholic King

Answer 15

Henry of Navarre

Question 16

Who was the king who increased the power of the intendants at the expense of the nobility

Answer 16

Louis XIV

Question 17

what was the name of a declaration of religious tolerance issued by Henry IV and canceled by Louis XIV

Answer 17

Edict of Nantes

Question 18

who were government agents who collected taxes and administered justice

Answer 18

intendants

Question 19

who was the first king of the Bourbon dynasty

Answer 19

Henry of Narvarre

Question 20

Who was the minister of finance under Louis XIV whose policies of mercantilism caused France’s economy to grow and prosper

Answer 20

Jean Baptiste Colbert

Question 21

Who won most of the early battles of the Thirty Years War

Answer 21

The Hapsburgs

Question 22

what country did Frederick II lead

Answer 22

Prussia

Question 23

In Europe, what were the results of the Seven Years War

Answer 23

no change in land

Question 24

what county was Austria’s greatest enemy

Answer 24

Prussia

Question 25

The War of Austrian Succession was fought over lands belonging to what, whom?

Answer 25

Belonging to Maria Theresa, to inherit the Habsburg lands

Question 26

who was Ivan the Terrible's cruelty aimed at

Answer 26

boyars

Question 27

Why was the site St. Petersburg chosen

Answer 27

Peter the Great wanted a seaport to make traveling to the west easier, he built the city of St. Petersburg on the Neva River

Question 28

What was Peter the Great's main reason for visiting the west

Answer 28

he wanted to learn European customs and manufacturing techniques

Question 29

Who was the first czar of Russia

Answer 29

Ivan the Terrible

Question 30

At the time Peter the Great took the throne, what group was most essential to the Russian economy

Answer 30

serfs

Question 31

Who were the boyars

Answer 31

Russia's landowning nobles

Question 32

What time period began when Charles II took the throne

Answer 32

Restoration

Question 33

What king of England was tried and put to death

Answer 33

Charles I

Question 34

What Calvinist king of Scotland inherited Elizabeth I's throne as well a her conflicts with Parliament

Answer 34

William of Orange

Question 35

What Puritan leader ruled England after the end of the English Civil War

Answer 35

Oliver Cromwell

Question 36

What Puritan leader abolished the monarchy and ruled as a military dictator

Answer 36

Oliver Cromwell

Question 37

What king of England lost the English Civil War

Answer 37

Charles I

Question 38

What type of government did James I believe should exist

Answer 38

Absolute Monarchy

Question 39

What prevented Monarchs from jailing people for purely political reasons and from indefinitely holding prisoners without trial

Answer 39

Habeas Corpus

Question 40

What document made it clear the limits on royal power after the Glorious Revolution

Answer 40

Bill of Rights