| A | B |
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| Inflation | A rapid increase in prices. |
| Witchcraft | The practice of magic by people supposeddly in league with the divel. |
| Divine right of king | The belief that kings reiceve their power from god and are responsible only to god. |
| Commonwealth | A republic. |
| James I | The start line of rulers began with the accession to the throne of Elizabeth's cousin the king of scotland. |
| Puritans | Protestants in England inspired by calinest ideas did not like the king's strong defense of the church of England |
| Charles I | The conflict that began during the reign of James come to a head during the reign of his son. |
| Cavaliers | The parliamentary forces. |
| Roundheads | Because of their short hair. |
| Oliver Cromwell | A military genius. |
| James II | Was an open and devout catholic markin religion conflic between the king and parliarment. |
| Louis XIV | Has long been regared as the best example of the pratice of absolutism in the 17 century. |
| Cardinal Richeliev | Louis XIV chief ministeer, Strengthended the power of the monarchy. |
| Frederick William the Great Elector | Laid the foundation for the Prussian states. |
| Ivan IV | Became the first ruler to take the title of Czar the Russian word for Caesar. |
| Michael Ramonov | This period did not end until the Zemsky Sobor, or national assembly, chose Michael Romanov as the new Czar in 1613. |
| Peter the Great | One o its most Prominerg members. |
| Absolutiom | A political system is which a ruler holds total power. |
| Czar | Russian for "caesar,"the title used by Russian emperors |
| Boyar | A Russian noble |
| Militant | Combative religions |
| Armada | A fleet of worships to invade England |
| Huguenots | Were french protestant influenced by John Calvin |
| Henry of Navarre | The political leader of the hugenots and a member of the Bourbon dynasty |
| Edicts of Nantes | Recognized Catholism as official religion of france |
| King Philip II | Of spain the son and heir of CharlesV. |
| William the Silent | The prince of orange offered growing resistance |
| Elizabeth Tudor | Asecended the throne in 1558 England had fewer than 4 million people |
| Mannerism | A movement that emerged in italy in the 1520's and 1530's |
| Baroque | A new movement that eventually replaced Mannerism. |
| Natural right's | Rights with which they were born. |
| El Greco ("The Greek") | A painter that was from the island of Crete,in his paintings he used elongated and contorted figures. |
| Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Italian architect and sculptor who completed Saint Peters Basilica in Rome |
| William Shakespeare | A famous dramatist. |
| Lope de Vega | A play writer who wrote an extraordinary number of plays (perhaps 1500) |
| Miguel de Cervantes | A spanish novelist who wrote Don Quixote has been hailed as one of the literary works of all time. |
| Thomas Hobbes | Alarmed by revolutionary upheavals in england. |
| Jhon Locke | Who wrote a political work called Two Treatises of Government,1690, viewed the exercise of political power quite differently. |
