Chapter 5 Test (5.1 - 5.4) Flashcards
Philip II
-Spain, the Spanish Netherlands, and the American colonies
-extremely catholic
Henry of Navarre (Henry IV)
- France leader
-Edict of Nantes
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (Huguenot slaughter)
Edict of Nantes
declared that the Huguenots could live in peace in France and set up their own houses of worship in some cities (religious tolerance)
Cardinal Richelieu
Louis XIII’s appointed strong minister (France)
Louis XIV
-strongest French ruler in History
-“I am the state”
-“The Sun King”
-Nobles in his house
-The Palace at Versailles
Jean Baptiste Colbert
Louis XIV’s minister of finance
War of the Spanish Succession
the first world war
Thirty Years’ War
conflict over religion and territory and for power among European ruling families
Peace of Westphalia ended it
Frederick William (Frederick “The Great Elector”)
King of Prussia
Frederick the Great (Frederick William I: “Soldier King”)
Prussia Ruler
wanted the Austrian land of Silesia
Seven Years’ War
Didn’t change anything in Europe.
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)
Russia ruler
Good & Bad periods
bad - wife died & he turned into a tyrant
killed his eldest son
Peter the Great
Russia’s greatest reformers
western and modern
Established St. Petersburg
boyars
Russia’s landowning nobles,