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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
the royal court ceremony celebrating the kings rising was known as
the Fronde
the awakening
the levee
the inquisition
royal officials who carried out the policies of Louis XIV were called
intendents
electors
nobles
dissenters
in 1598 the edict of Nantes stand that
Henry iv was the divine ruler of France
French protestants were granted religious freedom
Netherlands was now an independent country
French catholics were granted religious freedom
the belief that a monarchs authority comes directly from god
divine right
hereditary right
divine pledge
monarchy privilage
Spain greatest writer, the authority of don Quixote was
Diego Velazquez
lope de vega
el greco
Miguel de cervantes
the Russian nobles known as boyars were well respected by peter the great for their modern way of thinking
false
true
spinash King Charles I took the name Charles V after he inherited the Hapsburg and holy roman empire
true
false
the inquisition was a protestant court set up to punish catholic heretics
true
false
one reason the Spanish economy declined in the 1600s was the rampant inflation caused by the gold and silver from the americas
true
false
Spanish monarch who abdicated and then divided his empire in two, giving one part to his son and the other to his brother
Ferdinand
Charles v
Phillip II
Louis XIV
