Honors European History

Absolutism Unit Test Study Guide

  1. Absolute Monarch
  2. Ruler with complete authority over the government and lives of the people he or she governs
  3. Russia(Chapter 10, Section 2 & Chapter 17, Section 5)
  4. Kievan Rus – Ethnic group of the Russians
  5. Adoption of Byzantine Christianity
  6. Moscow
  7. Resisted the power of the Mongols
  8. Became the center of power in Russia
  9. Ivan the Great
  10. First Russian czar
  11. “The czar is in nature like all men, but in authority he is like the highest God.”
  12. Ivan the Terrible
  13. Established the absolute power of the czar in Russia
  14. Commissioned the building of St. Basil’s Cathedral
  15. Killed his son
  16. Michael Romanov
  17. Became czar after the Terrible Times
  18. Began Romanov dynasty in Russia
  19. Peter the Great
  20. Westernization of Russia
  21. Adoption of European ideas
  22. The “beard tax”
  23. St. Petersburg
  24. Peterhof Palace
  25. Wars with Charles XII of Sweden
  26. Battle of Poltava
  27. Catherine the Great
  28. German princess by birth (Sophia)
  29. Married to Czar Peter III
  30. Peter murdered (Catherine might have been involved)
  31. Winter Palace
  32. Harsh treatment of peasants
  33. Warm-water port
  34. Partition of Poland
  35. Partition – to divide up
  36. Spain (Chapter 17, Section 1)
  37. Charles V
  38. King of Spain, southern Italy, the Netherlands, the Holy Roman Empire
  39. Holy Roman Emperor during the Diet of Worms
  40. Hapsburg Dynasty
  41. Gave up titles to become a monk
  42. Philip II
  43. El Escorial
  44. Wars with the Ottomans
  45. Holy League
  46. Battle of Lepanto
  47. Wars with the Netherlands
  48. Catholics vs. Protestants
  49. Spanish Armada
  50. Elizabeth I of England
  51. Siglo de oro – “the golden century”
  52. Inflation of Spanish currency
  53. Inflation – the rise in price of goods in the market place and the weakening of the purchasing power of the currency
  54. Discovery of gold and silver in the New World
  1. The Columbian Exchange
  2. Caused by Columbus’ discovery of the New World
  3. Exchange of goods between the New and Old World
  4. Cultural diffusion
  5. Introduction of Old World diseases into the New World
  6. Was the Columbian Exchange a good thing?
  7. Tulipmania
  8. The Netherlands
  9. Cause of the bubble
  10. Bubble – economics
  11. Viceroy tulip bulb
  12. Commodities
  13. France (Chapter 17, section 2)
  14. War of Religion
  15. Catholics vs. Calvinist Protestants (Huguenots)
  16. Henri IV
  17. Began Bourbon dynasty
  18. St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
  19. “Paris is worth a mass”
  20. Edict of Nantes
  21. Assassinated
  22. Pont de Neuf
  23. Cardinal Richelieu
  24. Chief minister of Louis XIII
  25. Worked to increase the power of the monarchy in France
  26. Louis XIV
  27. The Fronde
  28. The “Sun King”
  29. “I am the state.”
  30. Revoked the Edict of Nantes
  31. Versailles Palace
  32. War of Spanish Succession
  33. Attempt to unite the crowns of Spain and France
  34. Balance of power with England
  35. Philip V (Louis XIV’s grandson)
  36. Rise of Austria and Prussia (Chapter 17, Section 4)
  37. Austria
  38. Maria Theresa
  39. Hapsburg ruler
  40. War of Austrian Succession
  41. Invasion of Silesia by the Prussians
  42. Rallied the Hungarian nobles to her cause
  43. Vienna became a center of music and the arts
  44. Prussia
  45. Hohenzollern family
  46. Junkers – nobility in Prussia
  47. Frederick William I
  48. “Prussia is not a state which possesses an army, but an army which possesses a state.”
  49. Frederick the Great
  50. Harsh upbringing
  51. Military training
  52. Military genius
  53. The Seven Years War (1756-1763)
  54. Balance of Power
  55. Prussia, Austria, Russia, France, and Britain
  56. The French and Indian War (North America)
  57. Treaty of Paris