Unit 3 Vocabulary

a document requiring that a prisoner be brought before a court or judge so that it can be decided whether his or her imprisonment is legal

• boyar

• divine right

• habeas corpus

• intendent

the bloodless overthrow of the English King James II and his replacement by William and Mary

• Glorious Revolution

• English Civil War

• Restoration

• Thirty Years War

a conflict lasting from 1642 to 1649 in which Puritan supporters of Parliament battled supporters of England’s monarchy

• Edict of Nantes

• War of Spanish Succession

• Thirty Years War

• English Civil War

a 1598 declaration in which the French King Henry IV promised that Protestants could live in peace in France and could set up houses of worship in some French cities

• intendent

• boyar

• absolute monarch

• Edict of Nantes

a king or queen who has unlimited power and seeks to control all aspects of society

• skepticism

• absolute monarch

• boyar

• divine right

an adoption of the social, political, or economic institutions of Western – especially European or American – countries

• constitutional monarchy

• westernization

• Edict of Nantes

• skepticism

the period of Charles II’s rule over England, after the collapse of Oliver Cromwell’s government

• Restoration

• Glorious Revolution

• Thirty Years War

• War of Spanish Succession

the idea that monarchs are God’s representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God

• intendent

• boyar

• divine right

• absolute monarch

a landowning noble of Russia

• intendent

• boyar

• cabinet

• habeas corpus

a philosophy based on the idea that nothing can be known for certain

• boyar

• skepticism

• divine right

• absolute monarch