AP Euro Test 2
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Chapters 5, 6, 7
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 How did monarchies raise funds for their state? | Sold monopolies and hereditary offices |
| Concordat of Bologna 1516 | Gave French monarch the ability to control bishops and overrule judgement of ecclesiastical courts. |
| The Fronde | Was protesting from the nobles of the sword to regain their titles and privileges |
| Who was Louis, Prince of Conde? | Loyal Bourbon-- war hero during battle of Rocroi with the Spanish-- when he continued to receive privileges and titles from the monarchy. |
| Why was Mazarin disliked? | He had a system of patronage that favored his financial friends. |
| Jean-Baptiste Colbert was dubbed "the north" because... | He resurveyed land and created a new map to better administer the talle. |
| The vigtieme was.. | 5% tax on land for use of roads, canals etc. |
| Famous quotation of Louis XIV | "One king, one law, one faith" |
| Who wrote Tartuffe 1664? | Jean-Baptiste Moliere |
| One of the newest administrative departments that Louis XIV created was... | The ministry of war |
| What made international law ineffective in the 1700s? | There was arbitration between powers but no neutral party to conduct it. |
| In regards to Hungary, the Hapsburg failed to... | Impose centralized rule over them despite declaring Hapsburg's sovereignty. |
| What was the political trend in Prussia-Brandenburg? | Peasants lost their freedom of movement and inheritance. |
| What was Ivan IV of Russia's service state? | A state where nobles served him and thus he provided them with protection from peasant revolts. |
| Charles XI and Charles XII of Sweden both | Found it difficult to be an absolute power |
| Peter the Great of Russia | Borrowed Western technical knowledge and attached it to the structures of Russian absolutism. (Military might at the center) |
| Two characteristics of a modern state are | State bureaucracy and large standing army. |
| Puritans emphasized everything below except | Baptism and communion |
| Armenians emphasized everything below except | Biblical interpretation by minister or preacher only |
| The "Petition of rights" | Basically granted the right of parliament to exsist and condemned arbitrary arrests |
| What wzs the New model Army? | Parliaments army-- which received regular payments |
| The Levellers | Were those who called for new laws to protect the poor |
| After Colonel Thomas Pride wouldn't allow Presbyterians and some independents into parliament, the trial of Charles 1 was conducted with him refusing to defend himself and hen Charles 1 was excecuted, what was the parliament known as? | The Rump Parliament |
| Thomas Hobbes' philosophy best represents the views of | "The court" |
| John Locke's philosophy best represents the views of | 'The country' |
| The Act of Settlement in 1652 | Took 2/3 of the Catholic land in Ireland and gave it to English colonists |
| The Clarendon Code | Was a set of laws against dissenters of the Church of England |
| Toleration Act of 1689 | Protestant dissenters could hold public services in licensed meeting houses and maintain preachers |
| Two institutions that not only lent money to joint-stock companies and wealthy nobility but also to states in the North Atlantic trade were | Bank of Amsterdam and bank of london |
| The price Revolution was | Rise in population and economic boom at same time. Cost of living didn't meet wages earned |
| What were some of the problems that Charles V faced with Spain as the King of Spain? | Didn't speak Spanish and spent very little time in Spain but used the tax system in Spain to help finance the Thirty Years' War while eliminating some key noble positions in gov't and replacing them with foreign officials |
| What war helped strengthen royal power for the House of Tudor in England? | The War of Roses |
| One of Henry VII legacies was the creation of | The justice of the peace for unpaid nobles |
| The Act of Supremacy is | Everyone had to recognize the Church of England as official church |
| Pope Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth, why? | To give Catholics permission not to obey her. |
| Enclosure is | Took away common land which was used by anyone |
| Who were the gentility? | The landowner |
| Poor laws | Because of he fear that the gentry and middling sort had for the poor |
| Duke of Alba | hated man by the Netherlands; chosen by Philip II to suppress the revolt in the Netherlands |
| Union of Utrecht | The union created for the Netherlands that granted their independence against Spain |
| Command Economy | central govt controls economy |
| joint-stock companies | Companies that financed the settlement of America. |
| Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) |
| Treaty of Munster | Document that recognized the Dutch Netherlands' independence from Spain (1648) |
| Jean-Baptiste Moliere | (1622-1673) French Theatre: catered to the upper class, the aristocrats. His comedies mocked religion but Louis XIV thought it was funny |
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