AP Euro Unit 2 (European Monarchies)

Muslim empire whose expansion threatened the Habsburg family, especially in Austria.

• Ottomans

• Safavids

• Mughals

• Russia

A series of violent uprisings during the early reign of Louis XIV triggered by growing royal control and oppressive taxation.

• Junkers

• Test Act

• Fronde

• Sultan

The highest-ranking members of the Russian nobility.

• Sultan

• Boyars

• Cossacks

• Mr. Keyes' family

A system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the state’s power; it was based on the belief that a nation’s wealth, specifically its supply of gold and silver, determined its international power.

• Republicanism

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Mercantilism

Members of a 16th & 17th century reform movement that advocated purifying Anglicanism of Catholic elements. Played leading role in English Civil War.

• Puritans

• Anglicans

• Pilgrims

• Huguenots

A form of government in which there is no monarch and power rests in the hands of the people as exercised through elected representatives.

• Republicanism

• Mercantilism

• Consitutionalism

• Absolutism

A series of treaties, from 1713 to 1715, that ended the War of the Spanish Succession, ended French expansion in Europe, and marked the rise of the British Empire.

• Peace of Utrecht

• Peace of Westphalia

• Edict of Nantes

• Peace in the Middle East

The English military dictatorship (1653–58) established by Oliver Cromwell following the execution of Charles I.

• Restoration

• Commonwealth

• Parliament

• Fronde

In Eastern Europe between 1500 and 1650, the growth of commercial agriculture was accompanied by the

• growth of a class of small landowners.

• consolidation of serfdom.

• establishment of an independent peasantry.

• establishment of many privileged towns as market centers.

Attempts by the House of Orange to establish themselves as kings of the Netherlands were frustrated by -

• the influence of the Catholic Church.

• a party of wealthy merchants led by Jan de Witt.

• their failure to win Dutch independence.

• poor economic situation of the Netherlands.