Quiz - Topics 2.1, 2.2 - Absolutism & the Reformation
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French nobleman who escaped death by converting to Catholicism. Said "Paris is well worth a mass." Issued the Edict of Nantes.
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 An enormous palace a few miles outside of Paris, a grand spectacle of kingly power.
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French Calvinist Protestants, 1 in 10 French men and women
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The belief a ruler's authority comes directly from God.
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Known as the Sun King.
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Thought to be invincible, sailed into the English Harbor in 1588 in response to the sinking of treasure ships by English sea dogs.
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Became czar of Russia while still a child, was strong with boundless energy, attempted to modernize Russia.
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Peter and Catherine the Great shared all of these in common EXCEPT
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Hapsburg ruler who gave up his title in 1556 to enter a monastery.
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Maintaining a distribution of military & economic power to prevent any one country from dominating.
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Government in which a ruling power belongs to a few people.
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Protestant German speaking military power in the north
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Russian landowning nobles
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Saw himself as the guardian of the Catholic Church, whose great undertaking of his life was to defend the Catholic Reformation and turn back the rising Protestant tide in Europe, fighting many wars to advance Spanish Catholic power.
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Symbolized the complete breakdown of order in France.
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"I am the State"
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Appeared during the Thirty Years' War, had not been seen in settled areas since the Middle Ages.
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To protect protestants, It granted the Huguenots religious toleration and other freedoms.
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Finance minister, who helped make France the wealthiest state in Europe. Fostered overseas colonies, such as NewFrance in North America and several colonies in India.
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Perhaps Louis’s most costly mistake
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“It is good,” he said, “to hear subjects speaking truth fully and openly to their king,” yet he was a very harsh ruler.
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By 1750, five European powers had come to dominate European affairs. Which is NOT one of those powers?
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Nearly 7 feet tall, with a booming laugh and a furious temper.
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Absolutism reached its peak
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In 1517, this man challenged the Roman Church on the matter of indulgences.
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Which statement is false?
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