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CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY | A government in which a king's power is limited by a written document |
ABSOLUTISM | a government in which a ruler's power is unlimited |
DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS | The belief that rulers received their authority to rule from God and were answerable only to God |
BALANCE OF POWER | A defensive strategy in which weak countries join together to match or exceed the power of a stronger country |
Ruled England after Charles I | Oliver Cromwell |
Won the English Civil War | Roundheads - Parliament |
Immediate cause of the English Civil War | Charles I attempted to arrest members of Parliament |
Roundheads | Middle class, city dwellers, Puritans and House of Commons |
Period when Charles II regained the English throne | Restoration Period |
Document signed by William and Mary to gain the throne | Bill of Rights of 1689 |
Nobles, Catholics, Anglicans and rural landholders | Cavaliers |
Only English king to be beheaded | Charles I |
Dynasty of rulers involved in the English Civil War | Stuart |
Political party who supported the monarchy | Tories |
Political party who supported Parliament | Whigs |
Effects of the Glorious Revolution | Ended absolute monarchy and William and Mary came to English throne |
known as the Sun King | Louis XIV |
Versailles | symbol of royal power, wealth and glory of France |
achievements of Peter the Great | modernized army, expanded Russia's boundary and westernized Russia |
Emphasis of Frederick the Great | Military strength |
absolute monarchs who centralized power | Louis XIV, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great |
Peter the Great ruled here | Russia |
Frederick the Great ruled here | Prussia |
Louis XIV ruled here | France |
William III and Mary II ruled here | England |
Main issue of English Civil War | who more powerful-king or Parliament |
English Calvinists | Puritans |
Invited William and Mary to replace James II as king | Parliament |
Cromwell's protectorate was what type of government? | military dictatorship |
Kings who kept all the power of their country for themselves | Peter the Great, Frederick the Great, Louis XIV |
Characteristics of absolute monarchy | rule by divine right, centralization of power, king has total control |
document which limited royal power and ended absolutism in England | Bill of Rights |
Made Parliament more powerful than king | Glorious Revolution |
Period from 1642-1645 when Parliament fought the king for control of the English government | English Civil War |
Result of Glorious Revolution | Bill of Rights written which gave Parliament supreme power over the king |
King who built Versailles | Louis XIV |
king tried for treason and beheaded | Charles I |
Absolute monarch of France | Louis XIV |
Lord Protector of England after the English Civil War | Oliver Cromwell |
Russia's window on the west | St. Petersburg |
Russia's new capital | St. Petersburg |
England's Merry Monarch | Charles II |
King during the Restoration | Charles II |
developed in England because of differing political opinions | political parties |
who won the English Civil War | Roundheads |
who lost the English Civil War | Cavaliers |
legislative body of England | Parliament |
Beheaded at the end of the English Civil War | Charles I |
he called for the execution of the king of England | Oliver Cromwell |
he was strict and religious ruler of England | Oliver Cromwell |
Became an absolute ruler of England after the English Civil War | Oliver Cromwell |
two sides in the English Civil War | supporters of the king and supporters of Parliament |
Czar who modernized Russia | Peter the Great |
these limited the power of the English king | Magna Carta, Bill of Rights, common law |
Countries which had an absolute monarchy | France, Russia, Prussia |
Type of government in England | constitutional monarchy |
Absolute kings had the power to do this | make laws |
European absolute monarchs tried to do this | centralize political power in their hands |