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Thomas-Chapter 4
The Growing Power of Western Europe-brittany,essence,madison,ben
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wanted to ban Catholics from being in the government or being king | Parliament |
| King of England. Didnt's have any kids so his Catholic brother James II became king after him | Charles II |
| Contreversial Catholic King of England. | James II |
| Catholic king of France. Wanted James II to stay as the king of England | Louis XIV |
| James II's protestant daughter. Became queen. | Mary |
| Married Mary and became king after James II. | William III of Orange |
| Renewed legislation act against dissenters. Allowed Catholics to serve in government or i the army or navy. | The Test Act |
| Were exclusionists. Most suspicious of the king, Catholics, and French | Whigs |
| Party of less aristocracy and gentry. Suspicious of the "money interest" in London. Loyal to the church and king | Tories |
| the events of 1688 came to be known as the... | Glorious Revolution |
| Was the weak spot in the French monarchy. | Finance |
| were part of catholicism that Louis XIV didnt like. | Jansenists |
| Was a society in which groups of many kinds could identify their own special interests with those of the "absolute" monarchy | Old Regime |
| was Louis XIV's great minister | Colbert |
| Why did Louis XIV's people turn against him? | the strain of his incessant war |
| What was an accomplishment of Louis XIV? | He ended civil war and advanced the cause of civil equality. |
| Improved communications by building roads and canals, he helped to find colonies, built up the navy, and establsihed the French East India Company. | Colbert's Commercial Code |
| Wanted control of the whole army, and every person in France. | Louis XIV |
| When was the Edict Of Nantes revoked? | 1685 |
| What was a main problem during the triumph of Absolutism? | Peasants were heavily taxed, while the rich didn't get taxed as much. |
| absolute monarch of France "sun king" | Louis XIV |
| palace built for Louis XIV | Versailles |
| produced a notable school of painters | Nicholas Poussin & Claude Lorrain |
| wrote austere tragedies | Corneille & Racine |
| comedies | Moliere |
| fables | La Fontaine |
| Mathematician & Scientific thinker | Descartes |
| where nobles & artists met, foreigners were welcomed. spread of ideas | salons |
| courts of law | parlements |
| fench civil war. parlements wanted power | The Fronde |
| quote by Louis XIV meaning he was "the state" & had power over everything | "L'etat, C'est moi" |
| In the 1600s only four or five million people in England and Lowland Scotland spoke this language | English |
| Settled Jamestown in 1607 | Members of the Church of England |
| Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| Woolens | Main export in England |
| Divine right of kings | James I, declared that kings drew their authority from God and were responsible to God alone. |
| James VI of Scotland | Mary Stuart's son, and a descendant of Henry VII inherited the crown of England . |
| Two houses of Parliament | House of Lords and House of Commons |
| Ship- Money dispute | Charles I wanted to have the whole counrty pay for the navy, not just the coastal towns. |
| Thomas Fairfax | Commander of the New Model Army |
| King Charles | codemned for treason and set to death on the scaffold in 1649. |
| Pride's Purge | Cromwell left Parliament with 50-60 members. 500 members in 1640, 150 members in 1649. |
| Founded Quakers | George Fox |
| Bank of Amsterdam | Dutch founded and regulated money. Also, depositors where allowed to draw checks against there accounts. |
| Stadholder | Elected military leader of the "state." |
| William of Orange | (William III) later became the King of England |
| Christian Huygens | Worked mainly in physics & math & also improved the telescope |
| Baroque | Artistic style that deals with lighting, interior spaces, and colors. |
| New York | After the series of wars between the Dutch and English, the English annexed New Amsterdam and renamed it New York. |
| The Geographer | Painted by Jan Vermeer. Shows the impact on Europe of the opening of the Atlantic. |
| Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window | Painted by Jan Vermeer. |
| Religious Toleration | The Jews were actually tolerated and so were the Arminians |
| Anna Maria van Schurman | Wrote "The Learned Maid or Whether a Maid May Be Called a Scholar" which developed an argument for education of women. |
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