Euro Chapter 15 part 3

in the Netherlands, tensions were always present between supporters of the staunchly republican Estates and supporters of

the House of Orange

Cardinal Jules Mazarin's struggle to increase royal revenues to meet the cost of war led to the uprisings of 1648-53, known as the

Fronde

After a defeat at Narva, Peter the Great constructed a new army and eventually beat the swedish in 1709 at

Poltava

the Junkers were

Prussian nobles who reluctantly worked with Frederick William to consolidate the Prussian state

What was the outcome of the heightened central control established by absolutist and constitutional gov.?

Growth in armed forces

Why did the English gov. arrive at a crisis situation by 1640?

James I frequently lectured of the House of Commons about his divine authority

France's strong economy was created by the mercantilist policies of

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

in music, the barque style reached its culmination in the work of

Johann Sebastian Bach

the Glorious Revolution and the concept of representative government found its best defense in the Second Treatise of Civil Government by

John Locke

Within the Ottoman gov., who staffed the top DIFF: levels of the bureaucracy?

The Sultan's slave crops

french foreign policy under cardinal Richelieu focused primarily on the

prevention of the Habsburgs from unifying the territories surrounding france

In return for financial support, what did Charles II of England secretly promise Louis XIV of france?

english laws against Catholics would be eased and england gradually recatholicized

how did William Laud, the archbishop of Canterbury, create conflict in Britain in the 1630s?

he sought to impose a new player book modeled on the Anglican Book of Common Prayer on Presbyterian Scotland

Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate as ultimately a

military dictatorship

the ottomans divided their subjects into religious communities or

millets

final collapse of spain as a great military power was symbolized by the defeat at the battle of Rocroi and the resulting treaty of

the Pyrenees

in Two Treaties of Government, John Locke notes that

the gover. must obtain the consent of the majority for taxes

how does Locke understand the process by which a govern. functions?

the people are in full liberty to resist those who, without authority, would impose anything upon them

which of the following characterizes the english revolution of 1688?

the revolution did not constitute a democratic revolution since sovereignty was placed in the parliament, which only represented the upper classes

how does Olearius depict the Russian Government

the tsar or the grand prince rules the land alone, and all the people are his subjects

how does Olearius view Russians as a people

they are naturally tough and born for slavery