| A | B |
|---|
| King Philip II | persecuted people who were not Catholic |
| golden age of Spain | Philip II set up schools and supported the arts |
| Huguenots | flee France, causing a blow to the French economy |
| Stuarts | ignored Parliament's role in the government. |
| Glorious Revolution | change took place without any fighting |
| Austria and Prussia | two major powers who emerged after the Thirty Years' War |
| Absolutism | unlimited power in the monarch and his or her advisers |
| divine right | Political idea that monarchs recieve ther power directly from God and are responsible to God alone for their actions |
| Marranos | Jews who had converted ot Christianity |
| Moriscos | Muslims who had become Christians |
| Armada | A fleet of warships organized to carry out a mission |
| Don Quixote | A novel about a landowner who imagines himself a knight called to perform heroic deeds. |
| Inflation | an abnormal increase in currency resulting in sharp price rises |
| Charles II | Last of the Spanish Hapsburgs |
| Henry VII | First Tudor monarch, helped rebuild England's commercial prosperity |
| Henry VIII | Tudor King who broke with the Catholic Church |
| Gentry | lesser nobles, merchants, lawyers and clergy |
| Yeomen | farmers with small landholdings and laborers |
| Louis XIV | Most powerful Bourbon monarch, known as the Sun King |
| serfs | peasant laborers who worked the estates and were bound to the land |
