| A | B |
|---|
| belief that kings rule by authority from God | divine right |
| Louis XIII's powerful chief minister | Richelieu |
| emerged as the strongest nation after the Thirty Years' War | France |
| result of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes | end of Protestant education in France |
| Frederick William of Prussia | called the "the Great" because he was the most powerful prince to elect the Holy Roman emperor |
| country in which absolutism was defeated | England |
| limited the English king's power | Parliament's control of taxes |
| Oliver Cromwell's title | Lord Protector |
| gave French territory in Canada to Britian | Treaty of Utrecht |
| Pragmatic Sanction | signed by the European nation's to allow Maria Theresa to rule in peace |
| Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle | merely ended the fighting of the war of Austrian Succession |
| also called the French and Indian War | Seven Years' War |
| political power that is unlimited or unrestrained | absolute power |
| the justification of increasing royal power on religious grounds | divine right |
| the advisor to Louis XIV | Mazarin |
| series of unsuccesful attempts to destroy French absolutism | the Frondes |
| Russian word for "caesar" | czar |
| tactic of English rulers when they opposed Parliament | dismissal of Parliament |
| document written by William and Mary which limited the power of the king | Bill of Rights (1689) |
| eightenth-century alliance system which made sure that no nation grew stronger than another | balance of powers |
| the British statesman whose strategy for winning the Seven Years' War resulted in great success for England and helped establish her as a major world power | William Pitt the Elder |
| Bourbon family | France |
| Hohenzollern family | Prussia |
| Hapsburg family | Austria |
| Romanov family | Russia |
| Stuart family | England |
| "I am the state" | Louis XIV |
| Swedish king during the Thirty Years' War | Gustavus Adolphus |
| first "King in Prussia" | Frederick I |
| tripled the size of Prussia | Frederick II |
| ruled with Maria Theresa | Joseph II |
| "The Terrible" | Ivan IV |
| Westernized Russia | Peter I |
| first Scottish king of England | James I |
| lost an English civil war | Charles I |
| lost the English throne in 1688 | James II |
| accepted Act of Settlement | William and Mary |
| first Hanover king | George I |
| Thirty Years' War | the last great religious war fought in Europe |
| Junkers | Prussian nobles who worked closely with the Prussian rulers |
| Peter the Great | soldified his power by gaining control of the Russian Orthodox Church |
| Catherine the Great | continued Peter I's westernization of Russia |
| the Scots | raised an army against Charles I primarily because his agents tried to force the use of the Anglican prayer book on the Scottish church |
| Roundheads | supporters of Parliament during the English civil war during the reign of Charles I |
| Cavaliers | supporters of the king during the English civil war during the reign of Charles I |
