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Chapter 17 absolutism vocab pg 1
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| absolute monarch | A king or queen with complete authority over the government and people in a kingdom |
| armada | Spanish naval fleet |
| Autocratic | One ruler |
| Bill of Rights | English - drawn up by a convention of Parliament, limited the sovereign's (or monarch's), Pareliament reaffirmed their control, taxation, and legislation, it prevented the abuse of power, from 1688-1689 it settled the uprising between the king and Parliament |
| Bloody Mary | England - a Tutor who ruled because her father, Henry VIII had no healthy male heir, she persecuted the Protestants and joined the Church of Rome giving her the name BLOODY Mary |
| Bourbon | A Dynasty in France that included Louis XIII and Louis XIV |
| boyar | Russian noble |
| Boyars | nobles in Russia |
| Catherine the Great | enlightened czarina of Russia |
| Cervantes | Spanish author who wrote "Don Quiote" |
| Charles I | England - clashed with Parliament, dismissed/shut down Parliament for 11 years and only starts it again to ask for money and Parliament says no, Civil War in England during his rule |
| Charles II | Enland - he cooperated with Parliament because his father's head got chopped off, resoration, son of Charles I, after Cromwell died he was asked to take the thrown, he was weak but popular, he has illegitimate children but no heir, the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London of 1666 were during his rule |
| Civil War of England | between Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, Charles I loses war and head |
| Czar | Russian word for Ceaser |
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