| A | B |
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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 |
