AP European History
Absolutism and Constitutionalism – 1589 – 1725
■ 10/9 to 10/23
■ Read pgs. 462-501
Learning Targets/Objectives
1. What were the common crises and achievements of seventeenth-century European states?
2. What factors led to the rise of the French absolutist state under Louis XIV, and why did absolutist Spain
experience decline in the same period?
3. How did the rulers of Austria and Prussia transform their nations into absolutist monarchies?
4. What were the distinctive features of Russian and Ottoman absolutism?
5. How and why did the constitutional state triumph in the Dutch Republic and England?
6. What was the Baroque style in art and music, and where was it popular?
Terms and People – list from the book
Famine impact on Europe
Moral Economy
30 Years War
Bohemia and religion
Gustvus Adolphus
Peace of Westphalia
Warfare and Growth of Army Size
-loyalty, nobility, costs
Rise of Popular Action – Why?
Sovereignty
Henry IV – The Great
Edict of Nantes
Marie de Medici
Louis XIII
Cardinal Reichelieu
-domestic policy
-foreign policy
Fronde
Louis XIV
-councilors
-Edict of Nantes revoked
-Intendants
-Versailles
-Madame de Maintenon
-Popular revolts
-French Classicism
-Racine & Moliere
-Mercantilism
-Precieuses
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Charles II
Philip of Anjou
War of Spanish Succession
Peace of Utrecht
Balance of Power
Fall of Spain
Philip III
Count-Duke of Olivares
Treaty of Pyrenees
Return of Serfdom
Hapsburgs
Ferdinand II
Ferdinand III
Prince Francis Rakoczy
Difference between Bohemia and
Hungary
Hohenzollern
Frederick William –
Great Elector
Junkers – accept??
The Soldiers King
Mongols - Khans
Ivan III
Boyars
Ivan IV
Czar
Cossacks
Michael Romanov
Peter the Great
-social mobility
-technology
-marriage
-St. Petersburg
Charles XII
St. Basil’s Cathedral
St. Petersburg
Catherine the Great
Ottoman Empire
Istanbul
Sultans
Millet System
Janissary Corps
Constitutionalism
Republicanism
Queen Elizabeth I
James I
Charles I - problems
Puritans
Archbis. of Canterbury Will. Laud
-Book of Common Prayer
-Pres. Scots
Triennial Act
Irish Rebellion
English Civil War
Rump Parliament
English Civil War
Protectorate
Mercantilism
Navigation Act
Jewish Immigration
Charles II
Test Act
Charles II and Louis XIV
James II
Church of England
William and Mary
Glorious Revolution
Bill of Rights
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan
Was the Glor. Rev really a Rev???
Cabinet
Sir Robert Walpole
House of Commons
George I
George II
Prime Minister
Evolution of Dutch Government
Dutch Republic
Toleration and business
Stadtholder
Dutch East India Company
Baroque Art
Peter Paul Rubens
Johann Sebastian Bach
The next page has terms that are repeated, but some are hyperlinked on my webpage.
I got this source from an AP guru.
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Henry IV
noblesse d'epee
noblesse de robe
paulette
mercantilism
Louis XIII
Cardinal Richelieu
intendants
Louis XIV
"Sun King"
Cardinal Mazarin
Fronde
divine-right monarchy
Bishop Jacques Bossuet
L' état c'est moi!
Versailles
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Marquis of Louvois
One King, One Law, One Faith!
War of the Spanish
Succession [1701-1714]
Treaties of Utrecht [17131714]
Jansenism
Louis XV
Cardinal Fleury
vingtième
HRE Leopold I
Prince Eugène of Savoy
Hohenzollerns
Frederick William, the Great
Elector
Brandenburg-Prussia
junkers
Frederick III [King Frederick
I]
"First Servant of the State"
'Enlightened' Despot
Silesia
Maria Theresa
Pragmatic Sanction
Magyars
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War of the Austrian
Succession [1740-1748]
House of Orange
Amsterdam Bourse
Jan De Witt
William III [Holland]
Stadholder
Dutch Reformed Church
Delftware
Dutch East India Co.
Dutch West India Co.
Rembrandt van Rijn
Jan Vermeer
Gustavus Adolphus
Queen Christina [Sweden]
Charles X [Sweden]
Charles XII [Sweden]
tsar
Muscovy
Ivan I
Ivan III
Ivan IV ["The Terrible"]
boyars
Time of Troubles
Romanovs
Duma
Peter the Great
streltsy
Table of Ranks
"Grand Embassy"
"Window to the West"
St. Petersburg
Battle of Poltava
House of Commons
"power of the purse"
Puritans
James I
Charles I
ship money
William Laud
Petition of Right
Triennial Act
writ of habeas corpus
Oliver Cromwell
Grand Remonstrance
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Long Parliament
Roundheads
Cavaliers
New Model Army
Pride's Purge
"Rump" Parliament
Levellers
Diggers
Society of Friends
[Quakers]
Fifth Monarchists
Instrument of
Government
Lord Protector
Act of Settlement
Interregnum
English Restoration
[1660-1688]
Charles II
Test Act
Royal Declaration of
Indulgences
Whigs
Tories
James II
Glorious Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Toleration Act
Mary II of England
Anne I of England
Hanoverians
Robert Walpole
South Sea Bubble
William Pitt
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
John Locke
tabula rasa
Second Treatise of Civil
Government
hegemony
Seven Years' War [17561763]
Peace of Hubertusburg