| A | B |
|---|
| Cardinal Richelieu | Louis XIII's chief minister |
| Cardlinal Mazarin | Louis XIV's chief minister |
| Fronde | Civil revolt against Mazarin during the childhood of Louis XIV |
| Nobles of the Robe | Service nobility of lawyers and administrators who led the first Fronde |
| Nobles of the Sword | Descendants of medieval nobles who led the second Fronde |
| Jean Baptiste Colbert | Louis XIV's chief financial minister who employed a policy of mercantilism to improve France's finances |
| Edict of Fountainebleau | Issued by Louis XIV, this document revoked the Edict of Nantes |
| intendants | Louis XIV's agents who virtually controlled local administrators |
| Duke of Lerma | Philip III's mininster who appointed many of his relatives to powerful positions |
| Charles II of Spain | half-wit king of Spain whose choice of heir touched off a war |
| Sejm | Major political institution of Poland |
| James I | First of the Stuart kings to rule England |
| Instrument of Government | England's first and only written constitution |
| John Hampden | Individual who sued the king over "ship money" |
| Glorious Revolution | The event that brought William III of the House of Orange and Mary to the throne of England |
| Levellers | Groups of English dissenters who favored a democratic government based on universal male suffrage |
| Diggers | Dissenters who wanted to outlaw private property |
| Ranters | Dissenters who rejected "heaven and hell" and advocated a hedonist lifestyle |
| Act of Settlement | Act that determined who would succeed William and Mary to the throne |
| Act of Union | Act that united England and Scotland and dissolved the Scotish Parliamwnt |
| National Covenant | Death oath taken by the Scots to defend their Parliament and their religion |
| Act of Toleration | Act that provided for religious freedom for Protestants in England |
| Penal Code | Enacted during the reign of William and Mary it severely restricted the rights of the Irish Catholics |
| Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares | Spanish minister who made several efforts at reform which all failed |
| War of Devolution | Louis XIV's war waged against the Triple Alliance |
| Peace of Nimwegen | Agreement that ended the War of Devolution |
| Dutch War | Louis XIV's war which was made possible by the Treaty of Dover |
| War of the League of Augsburg | War that brought famine to France and which resulted in a lost of territory for France |
| War of the Spanish Succession | War ended by the Peace of Utrecht and Peace of Rastatt which forbid the union of the French and Spanish thrones |
| Hohenzollern | Ruling family of Brandenburg-Prussia |
| Habsburg | Ruling family of Austria |
| General War Comissariat | Prussian governmental body that collected taxes for the army and oversaw its growth and training |
| Treaty of Karlowitz | Agreement between the Habsburgs and the Turks which established an Austrian Empire in southeastern Europe |
| Time of Troubles | Period in Russia before Michael Romanov came to power |
| Table of Ranks | Created by Peter the Great this set up a means for non-nobles to enter the nobility |
| Great Northern War | War between Russia and Sweden that gave Russia access a western seaport |
