Unit 1 History

Most powerful Hapsburg ruler who divided his vast empire into the Spanish
Hapsburg Empire and the Austria Hapsburg Empire

• Charles V

• Charles I

• Peter 1

• Gustavus Adolphus

Leader of the Dutch Protestants in their revolt against Philip II

• Gustavus Adolphus

• James I

• William the Silent

• Catherine II

King of Sweden who won many important victories for the Protestants in the
Thirty Years' War

• Jean-Baptiste Colbert

• Gustavus Adolphus

• William the Silent

• Louis XIV

Who was the Sun King?; said, "I am the state"

• Louis XIV

• Peter I

• Charles I

• Charles V

Louis XIV's minister of finance who encouraged mercantilism

• William the Silent

• Gustavus Adolphus

• Jean-Baptiste Colbert

• William Pitt the Elder

Russian czar who westernized Russia after a trip abroad

• Catherine II

• James I

• Louis XIV

• Peter I

Russian ruler who first gave the nobles the right to exile rebellious peasants to
Siberia and began government censorship

• Peter I

• Catherine II

• William the Silent

• James I

English king who succeeded Queen Elizabeth, beginning the Stuart Dynasty

• Charles V

• William Pitt the Elder

• James I

• Peter I

English king convicted of treason & executed after the English Civil War

• Charles I

• Charles V

• James I

• Catherine II

British statesman who provided Prussia with financial aid in the Seven Years'
War to distract France from their colonies

• William the Silent

• Gustavus Adolphus

• Jean-Baptiste Colbert

• William Pitt the Elder