| A | B |
| es | craft affect many Europeans livers. It is not new. Everyday more and more people became frightened of es. There were many craft trials that occurred. |
| Thirty Years War | "last of teh religious wars." Took place in Germanic lands of the Holy Roman Empire, became a Europe-wide struggle. The Peace of Augsburg brought an end to religious warefare between German Catholics and Luterans |
| Peace of Westphalia | Ensured that all German states including the Calvinistones, were free to determine their own religion. Made it clear that religion and politics were now separated |
| Gustavus Adolphus | King of Sweden. Responsible for reviving Sweden and making it into a great Baltic power. His army swept the imperial forces out of the north and moved into the heart of Germany |
| Conscript Standing Armies | noticable for its many tactics |
| Absolutism | Absolute monarch; meant that sovereign power or ultimate authority in the state rested in the hands of a king, who claimed to role by "divine rights." |
| Bishop Jacques Bossuet | expressed his ideas in book, Politics drawn from the very words of the Holy Script. He first argued that government was divinity ordained so that humans could live in an organized society. |
| Divine Rights | the French theologian and court preacher bishop Jacques Bossuet |
| Cardinals Richelieu & Mazarin | Louis XIII chief minister from 1624 to 1642, inititated polocies that eventually strengthened the power of the monarchy. Richelieu trained successor. Most important during his time was the revolt known as the fronde. |
| fronde | the nobles of the robe lead the 1st fronde, which broke out in Paris and was ended by compromise. The second. led by the nobles of the sword. Wanting to overthrow Mazarin to secure their position. |
| Louis XIV | Took over Supreme powers. He established a conscientious routine from which he seldom deviated. He created a grand and majestic spectical at the court of Versailles. |
| Edict of Fontainebleau | to revoke the edict of Nantes, the new edict provided for the destruction of Huguenot churches and the closing of Protestant schools. |
| Versailles | It was the residence of the king, a reception hall for state affairs, an office building for the kings government, served a practical political purpose. |
| Jean-Baptiste Colbert | Controller general of Finances. He sought to increase the wealth and power of france through general to Mercantilism |
| Louis XIV Wars | He began his first war by invading the Spanish. He had about 4 wars. Mostly all against the Spanish. |
| Peace of Utrecht | This came with the end of the final war. Although the peace treaty confirmed Philip V as the Spanish ruler, initiating a SPanish Bourbon dynasty that would last into the 20th century. |
| Brandenburg-Prussia | asdkj as;ldkjf |