Flashcards in Ch.15 Absolutism Deck (44)
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Frederick IV of the Palatinate
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Defenestration of Prague
The First Defenestration of Prague involved the killing of seven members of the city council by a crowd of radical Czech Hussites on July 30, 1419.
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Gustavus Adolphus
King of Sweden who developed the first standing army conscripts notable for the flexibility of its tactics
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Peace of Westphalia
Ensured that all German states including the Calvinist ones were free to determine their own religion
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Jacques Bossuet and the "Divine Right" of kings
Medieval political theorists had seen kings as deriving their authority from God, but as obliged to rule in accordance with law and in consultation with the nobility. Some political philosophers of the Middle Ages wanted to assert the prince's authority against the Pope; most accepted that a prince ruling tyrannically could be removed by his subjects. Marsilius of Padua (c. 1270-1342) went further than most in subjecting the king to the community.
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Cardinal Richlieu and Lewis X I I I
Cardinal Richelieu was a strong believer in the power of the crown - as had been his predecessor the Duke de Luynes. Richelieu served his master - Louis XIII - well and did much to make Seventeenth Century France a classic example of the expansion of royal absolutism at the expense of noble power.
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Cardinal Mazarin
An Italian who had come to France as a Papel legit and then became neutralized measure and attempted to carry on Richlieu's policies until he's his death
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Louis XIV
Louis XIV of France ranks as one of the most remarkable monarchs in history. He reigned for 72 years, 54 of them he personally controlled French government. The 17th century is labeled as the age of Louis XIV. Since then his rule has been hailed as the supreme example of a type of government - absolutism. He epitomized the ideal of kingship. During his reign France stabilized and became one of the strongest powers in Europe.
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The Fronde
The Fronde (the name for the “sling” of a children’s game played in the streets of Paris in defiance of civil authorities) was in part an attempt to check the growing power of royal government; its failure prepared the way for the absolutism of Louis XIV’s personal reign.
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Edict of Fontainebleu
In October 1685, Louis XIV signed the Edict of Fontainebleau which repealed the Edict of Nantes. It banned Protestant worship and the emigration of Protestants. Pastors were banished.
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Versailles
Serves many purposes it was a residence of the keen reception hall for staff affairs office building for the members of the Kings government in the home of thousands of royal officials and aristocratic courtiers
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Jean Baptiste Colbert
Wanted to increase the wealth and power of France through general adherence to mercantilism which stressed government regulation of economic activities to benefit the state
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Frederick William
The Great Elector
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Frederick 3rd son of Frederick William
Next elector
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Austria
Means Bohemia
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Frederick 1
Frederick 2nd
King and 2nd elector
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Frederick William the great elector
•Laid foundation for the Prussian state
• came to power in the miss of the 30 years war
• built a competent and efficient standing army
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Hohenzollern
Dynasty
The House of Hohenzollern is a dynasty of former princes, electors, kings, and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. Wikipedia
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Peter the Great
•Rude
• watered wanted to westernize Russia especially in the wheel of technical skills
Conscripted peasants for 25 years of service to build a standing army of
210,000 men
• defeated Charles's army
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The great Northern war and St. Petersburg
The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Central, Northern, and Eastern Europe
Later found at. Petersburg
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The house of orange Dutch
Occupied the stadholder it and most of the seven provinces and favorite the development of a centralized government with themselves as hereditary monarchs
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The Stuart Dynasty
It was an age of intense religious debate and radical politics. Both contributed to a bloody civil war in the mid-seventeenth century between Crown and Parliament (the Cavaliers and the Roundheads), resulting in a parliamentary victory for Oliver Cromwell and the dramatic execution of King Charles I.
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The Puritans
Protestants in the angelic and church inspired by Calvinist theology
Wanted James to eliminate the Piscopo system of the church organization used in the church of England in favor of a Presbyterian model
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Charles I and the English Civil War
Captured in the first phase of the Civil War
Beheaded
Didn't want to share power with the Parliament
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Oliver Cromwell
One of the groups leaders The group called the independents
He was commander-in-chief of the Army but had to crush the Catholic uprising in Ireland which he accomplished and earned him internal enmity of Irish people
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Levelers
Wanted to level out the society
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The test act
Specify that only Angelicans can hold military and civil offices
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Charles I I and the restoration
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James I I
James II and VII was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685 until he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Wikipedia
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