A | B |
Edict of Nantes | granted Huguenots freedom of worship |
Louis XIV | built a palace as a symbol of royal power |
Divine Right | when a ruler received absolute power to gover directly from God |
Peter the Great | westernized Russia |
Cardinal Richelieu | changed the focus of the Thirty Years War from religious to political |
Parliament | law making body of England |
Charles I | disolved Parliament, tried to force acceptance of Church of England |
Roundheads | supporters of Parliament in the English Civil War |
Cavaliers | supporters of the King in the English Civil War |
Cromwell | leader of the Roundheads |
English Civil War | the King vs. Parliament |
Restoration | when Charles II was put back in the monarchy |
Charles II | replaced Cromwell's military rule |
Glorious Revolution | when William and Mary gained the English throne without bloodshed |
William and Mary | ran a constitutional monarchy |
English Bill of Rights | a set of rules set forth by Parliament that dictated the monarchy |
Constitutional Monarchy | government in which monarch's powers are limited by the English Bill of Rights |
Whigs | political party in England wanted to replace royal family with outsiders |
Tories | political party in England who supported the royal family |