| Term | Definition |
| monarchy | In absolutism, power lies with the |
| nationalism | Under absolutism, local feudal loyalties were replaced with |
| habsburg | Charles the V was a member of this royal family |
| Frederick William I | abandoned lavish french courts of his father, then established schools and a big professional military |
| Catherine the Great | Queen who used similar solutions as Elizabeth of England |
| Philip II | Married to Mary Tudor |
| Henry IV | a ruler who was both protestant and catholic |
| Peter the Great | Plans to westernize included building a new capital city |
| Mary I | Tried to recatholicize England |
| Henry VIII | Declared himself head of his own church |
| Charles V | Signed the Peace of Augsburg |
| Louis XIV | Repealed the Edict of Nantes |
| Louis XIV | Built an elaborate capital to intimidate and frustrate the nobility |
| Louis XIV | Expanded his empire into Canada |
| Philip II | Attacked England with the Spanish Armada |
| Cardinal Richelieu | Louis XIII was highly influenced by this man |
| Russia | A war with sweden gave which country valuable territory |
| Dutch | Who was not a Catholic member of the 30 years war |
| Elizabeth | Tudor queen who helped England to become a superpower |
| Catherine the Great | Russia expanded westward into poland and eastward into asia under who |
| Frederick the Great | What monarchy formed an alliance with Great Britain during the 7 years war |