Chapter 21 Flashcards
Westernization of Russia
Orthodox Church limiting boyars and Russia’s military
Peter the great
Symbolic absolute rule of Russia during age of absolutism
Boyars
Russian land owning nobles, Ivan worry most about them
Glorious revolution
William and Mary took over England without firing a battle
Restoration
Charles 2nd
Absolute monarch of England
William and Mary
Fredrick the great
Absolute ruler of Prussia during the age of absolutism
Philip 2nd
Symbolic absolute ruler of Spain
Cavaliers
Supported king in English civil war
Moscow
Capital of Russia today, as well as before Peter the great
St Petersburg
Capital of Russia after Peter the great until 1917
“Round heads”
Puritan supporters of parliament
Oliver Cromwell
Lead parliament opposition against the English king during the English civil war
James I
Writes his own bible, said that gods should be called kings
William and Mary
Dad - James 2nd
Lead the first constitutional monarchy in English history
Central/ Eastern Europe vs Western Europe economically in the Age
Western - full colonization, new sources of money , allowed surfs to be slowly freed and moved towns
Eastern Europe - aristocracy passing laws restrict ability of serfs to gain freedom , land owners can sell their farm crops for big profits in western Europe
Hohenzollerns
Prussia
The hapsburgs
Austria
The romanovs
Ruling family of Russia which lasted until 1917
Sweden in these wars
X factor in 30 years war, Protestant
Dutch prosperity
Small nation
Republic
Only concerned about trade, economically succeeding
Spanish empires decline
Lower classes did not go on strike
Cardinal Richelieu
Person who had nobles and Huguenots take down their fortifications in France
Cardinal Mazarin
Person who held true power and leadership of France while Louis XIV was 5 years old until he was 22
