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WH CH 5-V



Matching
 
 
a.
Seven Years’ War
n.
divine right
b.
Louis XIV
o.
Maria Theresa
c.
intendant
p.
westernization
d.
Frederick the Great
q.
Jean Baptiste Colbert
e.
Philip II
r.
Oliver Cromwell
f.
Charles I
s.
War of the Spanish Succession
g.
boyars
t.
habeas corpus
h.
Restoration
u.
English Civil War
i.
skepticism
v.
absolute monarch
j.
constitutional monarchy
w.
Glorious Revolution
k.
Peter the Great
x.
Ivan the Terrible
l.
Thirty Years’ War
y.
cabinet
m.
Edict of Nantes
z.
Cardinal Richelieu
 

 1. 

Spanish king who took control of Portugal but failed in his invasion of England
 

 2. 

King or queen with complete control
 

 3. 

Idea that a ruler receives the right to rule from God
 

 4. 

Order that gave Huguenots the right to live in peace in Catholic France
 

 5. 

Chief minister of France who reduced the power of the nobles
 

 6. 

Belief that nothing could be known for certain
 

 7. 

French king who was an absolute ruler
 

 8. 

Official of the French government
 

 9. 

Chief Minister of Finance under Louis XIV
 

 10. 

War fought by other European nations against France and Spain when those two states tried to unite their thrones
 

 11. 

Conflict over religion, territory, and power among European ruling families
 

 12. 

Empress of Austria whose main enemy was Prussia
 

 13. 

Leader of Prussia who sought to increase its territory
 

 14. 

Conflict from 1756 to 1763 in which the forces of Britain and Prussia battled those of Austria, France, Russia, and other countries.
 

 15. 

Ruler who added lands to Russia, gave it a code of laws, and also used his secret police to execute “traitors”
 

 16. 

Russian nobles who owned land
 

 17. 

Important leader of Russia who started westernization
 

 18. 

Use of western Europe as a model of change
 

 19. 

King of England who was executed
 

 20. 

War fought from 1642 to 1649 between the Royalists, or Cavaliers, and the Puritan supporters of Parliament
 

 21. 

Leader of the Puritans
 

 22. 

Period after the monarchy was restored in England
 

 23. 

Law giving prisoners the right to obtain a document saying that the prisoner cannot go to jail without being brought before a judge
 

 24. 

Bloodless overthrow of King James II
 

 25. 

Government in which laws limit the monarch’s power
 

 26. 

A group of government ministers that was a link between the monarch and Parliament
 



 
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