Study Guide for Ch.
16 – The Age of Absolutism
Terms and People to Know
Ch
16 Sec 1. ( pgs 502 –
509)
Ferdinand
and Isabella Hapsburgs Empire Charles V
Holy
Roman Empire Battle of Mohacs
cumbersome Philip II of
Spain Escorial
Divine right of kings
Absolute monarch
Battle of Lepanto Dutch Netherlands The Spanish Armada Sir
Francis Drake Siglo de Oro
El Greco Diego
Velazquez Miguel Cervantes Don Quixote
Ch
16 Sec 2. (pgs. 510-515)
Huguenots
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre Henry
IV of France Bourbons
Edict of Nantes Cardinal
Richilieu Cardinal
Mazarin
Louis XIII The Fronde
Louis XIV
(Sun King) Estates
General intendants Jean Baptiste Colbert
Versailles la
levee Jean Racine Moliere
French Academies
balance of
power War of the
Spanish
Succession Treaty
of Utrecht Louis
XV
Ch
16 Sec 3. (pgs. 516 –524)
Tudors Henry VIII Elizabeth I
James I (
England) suppressed dissenters
Puritans
Act of Supremacy Stuarts Charles I
William
Laud The Long Parliament The English Civil War
Cavaliers Roundheads
Oliver Cromwell The
Commonwealth Lord
Protector Levellers
Charles II The Restoration James II
The Glorious
Revolution English Bill of Rights limited monarchy
William and Mary
constitutional government
cabinet Robert Walpole oligarchy
Ch
16 Sec 4. ( pgs. 525 –
529)
Electors
Thirty Years War Ferdinand
I ( H.R.E.)
mercenaries depopulation Peace of Westphalia Austrian Hapsburgs
Maria Theresa War
of the Austrian Succession Joseph
II
Hohenzollern Frederick
William
I Junkers
Silesia Frederick
II
Pragmatic Sanction
Ch
16 Sec 5. ( pgs. 530 –
540)
Peter the Great
westernization autocratic warm-water
port The Great Northern War
St. Petersburg Vitus Bering Catherine the Great
Russo-Turkish War partition Partition of Poland
Ideas
to understand:
What conflicts was Charles V
involved in?
What role did Philip II take
in government affairs?
In what conflicts was Philip
II involved? Explain what happened.
What was the Siglo de
Oro? Why did Spain
suffer an
economic decline?
How did France develop a
strong monarchy?
How did Cardinal Richelieu
consolidate the power in the hands of the king?
What was the Estates General and what role did it play in
governing France?
How did Louis XIV gain
loyalty from the middle class and add to his power?
How did Henry VIII and
Elizabeth I reinforce Parliament’s power?
Describe and explain the
English Civil War and the Restoration
What caused the Thirty years
War? What were the results of the Treat of Westphalia?
Explain the Empires of the
Prussians and Austrians
Describe and Explain the
reigns of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great in Russia