Peter the Great

o Ruled Russian Empire. Westernized Russia, and played a major role in

the leading a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist
and medieval social and political system with one that was modern,
scientific, Europe-oriented, and based on Enlightenment.
Louis XIV
o Sun King.
Thomas Hobbes
o The Leviathan
John Locke
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
Nicola Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Galileo
Oliver Cromwell
o Played a major role in the English Civil War. Beheads and killed Charles
I
James I
o Succeeded the last Tudor monarch. Stat of the Stuart dynasty. Major
advocate of a single parliament. Achieved most of his aims in Scotland.
Gustavus Adolphus
o Founder of Sqeden as a Great Power. Led Sweden to military
supremacy during the Thirty Years War. Killed at the Battle of Lutzen.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
o Minister of Finances for France.
Cardinal Mazarin
o 2nd Chief Minister of Louis XIV; Italian. Succeeded Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu
o King Louis XIIIs Chief Minister.
James II
o Last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland. Britains political and religious elite suspected
him of being pro-French and pro-Catholic. Produced Catholic heir.
Parliament invited William of Orange to invade.
Jacques Bossuet
o Court preacher to Louis XIV. Strong advocate of political absolutism and
the divine right of kings. Argued that government was divine and that
kings received their power from God.
Habsburg Emperor Charles VI
o Unsuccessfully claimed the throne of Spain. War of Austrian
Succession.
The Fronde

A series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653. King

confronted the combined opposition of the princes, the nobility, the law
courts, and most of the French people. King won in the end.
English Civil War
o
Thirty Years War (Four Phases)
o Bohemian Revolt

o Danish
o Franco-Swedish
o French
Peace of Westphalia
o Ended Thirty Years War. Spain formally recognized the independence
of the Dutch Republic.
Peace of Utrecht (1713)
o Know provisions
Evolution of the English Monarchy (18th Cent)
Petition of Right
o Major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of
the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. Contains
restrictions on non-Parliamentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers,
imprisonment w/o cause
The Long Parliament
Poland in the 17th Century
Ottoman Empire
Religious Change in the Netherlands
Holy Roman Empire after the 30 Years War
Intendants
Swedens Decline
Dutch Golden-Age Art
Baroque vs. Neoclassical Art
Russian Serfs (17th-18th cent)
Pragmatic Sacntion
Hohenzollern Dynasty
Louis XIVs Wars
War of Spanish Succession
Frederick William, the Great Elector
Junkers
Nobles of Brandenburg Prussia
Economy of Brandenburg Prussia
Austrian Monarchy
Austria Monarchy takes part of Holy Roman Empire (easy)
Ivan the Terrible
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