Ch 15 Euro Review – Marsh – Flashcards
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Seventeenth-century European population
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fluctuated narrowly, constrained by famines and diseases.
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The witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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were often directed against old single women.
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During the reign of Louis XIV all of the following occurred EXCEPT
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A. France conquered most of the continent of Europe B. French styles in clothes, cooking, and etiquette became the accepted standard for Europe C. Louis enjoyed the longest reign of any monarch in European history D. the French language became the accepted standard for Europe (A did not occur)
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The Thirty Years' War
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is considered by most to be part of the larger Bourbon-Habsburg struggle.
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Louis XIV had some territorial ambitions, name them
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...Spanish empire, Spanish Netherlands, Franche-Comte
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Basically, the aim of statesmen pursuing the balance of power in the 17th centuries was
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...Preserve their own independence of action by allying against any state threatening to dominate Europe.
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The "ship money" issue raised by the lawsuit of John Hampsen concerned
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It was "a levy on seacoast towns to pay for coastal defense" and later expanded to include those inland because they too were being protected; also referred to as Marshall Law; the issue with it was the implementation of it even during times of peace in England
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All of the following were part of the "military revolution" in the century after 1560 except
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the increased use of militias and volunteer soldiers.
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Cardinal Richelieu understood that, in Louis XIV's France, the most important roadblocks to building a strong monarchy was
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resistance by the great nobles.
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Jacques Bossuet's Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture
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was the fundamental statement of seventeenth-century divine right monarchy.
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Absolutism means
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ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right.
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As Louis XIII's chief master, Cardinal Richelieu was most successful in
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strengthening the central role of the monarchy in domestic and foreign policy.
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The uprising in France that nearly overthrew Louis XIV early in his reign was the
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Fronde.
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Louis XIV restructured the policy-making machinery of the French government by
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(a and b) personally dominating the actions of his ministers and secretaries and stacking the royal council with loyal followers from relativity new aristocratic families.
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The economic policies of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's controller general of finances
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were based of the economic theory of mercantilism that stressed government regulation of economic affairs to benefit the state.
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Louis XIV used his palace of Versailles to
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dominate the nobility and display his grandeur. Activities included (a) evenings of concerts, games and banquets, (b) attempts by aristocrats to catch the ear of the monarch, (c) a system of etiquette that depended on the whim of the monarch, and (d) other activities designed to demean noble visitors
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The chief reason for the wars of Louis XIV was
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his desire to insure the dominance of France and his Bourbon dynasty in all Europe.
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The War of Spanish Succession ended when Philip V of Spain
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conceded to a permanent split between the French and Spanish thrones.
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Versailles - what was its practical political purpose?
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It enabled the king, Louis XIV, to keep an eye on and distract the impetuous nobles in order to have more control...to exclude the high nobility and royal princes from real power...
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Louis XIV's Edict of Fountainebleau
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revoked the earlier Edict of Nantes, curtailed the rights of French Protestants, and caused thousands of highly skilled Huguenot to flee the country.
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After 1648, the Holy Roman Empire
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was not really an empire at all but rather a loose association of 300 German states.
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Frederick William the Great Elector built Brandenburg-Prussia into a significant European power by
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making the General War Commissariat the bureaucratic machine of his state.
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Tell me about those Levellers - both kinds
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...religious toleration and a democratic republic...Wanted universal sufferage. (always have to be fair) Also, Diggers were Protestant agrarian (of or relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land.)socialists.
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Whigs, Tories, is there a dime's worth of difference?
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...The Whigs wanted to get rid of King James and establish a protestant King. The Tories supported King James, but only because they felt that the Parliament shouldn't tamper with lawful succession.
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Russian society in the seventeenth century
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was characterized by a highly oppressive system of serfdom.
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Which of the following statements best applies to Peter the Great of Russia?
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His program of Europeanization was predominately techinal and aimed at modernizing the military.
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For Ireland, the Revolution of 1688 meant what?
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...Catholics can't do anything.
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Scandinavia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed
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Sweden become a second-rate power after the Great Northern War.
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In 1529 and again in 1683, Vienna was seriously threatened by
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the Ottoman Empire.
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Under the liberum veto, an act of the Polish Sejm could be vetoed by
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any member of the Sejm.
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The "sleeping giant" of Eastern Europe in the first half of the seventeenth century was
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the Ottoman Empire.
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The "Golden Age" of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century witnessed
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(b and c) the economic prosperity of the United Provinces ruined by series of wars late in the century and the temporary weakening of the States General.
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James I of England alienated most of the members of Parliament by
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insisting on his rights to govern through Divine Right.
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The Petition of Right (1628), among other things,
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maintained that the King could pass no new tax without the consent of Parliament.
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Charles I was forces to call the Long Parliament into session in 1640 to deal with
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a Presbyterian uprising in Scotland.
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Under Charles II, Parliament passed the Test Act to
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stipulate that only Anglicans could hold military and civil offices.
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The "Glorious Revolution" in 1688 in England was significant for
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bloodlessly deposing James II in favor of William of Orange.
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The incident that prompted the nobles to depose James II was
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the birth of a Catholic son.
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The English Bill of Rights
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laid the foundation for a constitutional monarchy.
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Thomas Hobbes
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stated that mankind was animalistic, and needed a strong government to maintain social order.
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John Locke was resposible for
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emphasizing the social contract between the people and government.
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Evidence for the commercial and naval power of the Dutch can be found in all the following EXCEPT
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A. throughout the 17th century they owned most of the shipping of northern Europe B. they established colonies in Brazil and Guiana C. during three wars between 1652-1674 they decisively defeated the English D. they monopolized European trade with Japan (C = the mongols)
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Baroque art
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attempted to bend the feelings of the religious reformations with classical Renaissance art.
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The Baroque painter who used the violent motion, heavily fleshed nudes, and dramatic use of light and shadow, and rich sensuous pigments in his painting was
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Peter Paul Rubens.
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The greatest figure of Baroque art was
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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James Harrington - what were some of his ideas
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...Government based on law rather than individuals. Wrote the Common Wealth of Oceana. Constitutional republican form of government.
