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Who did Russia's Peter the Great name as his successor?

• His son, Alexa

• His wife, Catherine

• His brother, Ivan IV

• No one

Arrogant French king who said, "I am the state!"

• Charles |

• Louis XIV

• Henry II

• Louis X

Peter the Great fought the Ottoman Turks to

• build St. Petersburg

• gain German allies

• gain a warm-water port on the Black Sea

• take over a section of Poland.

To avoid war over Poland, the countries of Russia, Prussia, and Austria

• decided to partition it amongst themselves.

• asked France to decide the country's fate.

• allowed Poland to choose it own leader and style of government.

Peter the Great's goals for Russia included:

• Centralizing his own royal power and strengthening the military

• Increasing the power of the boyars.

• Eliminating the use of serfs as a source of labor.

• Increasing the powers of the Russian Orthodox Church.

If the Armada was a symbol of Spanish power, this was the symbol of French power and prestige:

• The French Army

• The Eiffel tower

• St. Peter’s Basicilla

• versailles

The enormous 130-ship naval fleet dispatched by Philip Il as part of an invasion of England was known as:

• The Spanish fleet

• The british armada

• the spanish armada

• The war of spanish succession

The Spanish Armada was a stunning victory over the English Navy.

• true

• false

A French Protestant was known as:

• edict

• mazarin

• nantes

• Huguenot

Spanish King Philip II, felt his goal in life was to

• defend Catholicism against the Protestant Reformation.

• create a new Roman empire in the Mediterranean.

• control the world market of gold and silver

• reunite the Spanish and holy roman empires