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ap euro chapter 5
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11th Grade
11/06/2008

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knights of the empire
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left over fuedal manors; persons found in south germany and rhineland, that acknowledged no overlordship except that of the emperor
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neofuedalism
Definition
new fuedalism
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germanic liberties
Definition
freedom of the member states; states rights
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perpetual diet
Definition
1663-1806 ongoing representative body
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Guelph Family
Definition
the hanover family; obtained electrate in the 30 years war
1st ruler is George Hanover
placed family members as the archbishop of cologne
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Hohenzollern
Definition
electors of brandenberg, gained fortune in the 17th century by inheriting territories from rhineland and the vistula
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szlachta
Definition
polish aristocracy
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liberum veto
Definition
the free veto, used to break up a diet
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Koran
Definition
book of religious law
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caliph and sultan
Definition
religious commanders of faith, affected all aspects of life
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extraterritorial privileges
Definition
developed by europeans wherever local laws were regarded as backward to Europeans
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Turk Bells
Definition
bells rung by order of German Emporer when turks expected to attack
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Silesia
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of the austrian empire, Frederick II claims this from austria for Prussia
adds valuable industries to Prussia
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hereditary provinces
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inherited by hapsburgs, covered most of austria
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Pope Innocent XI
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financed the austrian/german troops to keep off turkish attacks
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Duke Charles of Lorraine
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becomes Charles VI king of austria and holy roman emporer
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John Sobieski
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kING OF Poland, commands highest Austrian forces
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Prince Eugene of Savoy
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modeled Austrian forces after Louis XIV
crushed Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Zenta
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Battle of Zenta
Definition
1697; victory for austria against the turks
gained freedom of action in Bosnia
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Peace of Karlowitz
Definition
1699;turks gave most of hungary, transylvania, and slavonia to austria
made hapsburgs central power in europe
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Treaty of Rastadt
Definition
1714; extension of the treaty of utrecht; ending the war of the spanish succession and annexing the spanish netherlands
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Peace of Belgrade
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1739; ended the austro-turkish war
ottoman empire vs hapsburgs
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Trieste
Definition
small city on the adriatic coast
opened a seaport there *hapsburgs*
(elbe-trieste line is the divider between the east and west)
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Magyar Aristocracy
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essentially the rulers of hungary
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militarism
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when military needs and values permeate all other spheres o life
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margrave
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name given to the elector of brandenburg
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Brandenburg
Definition
german state centered about berlin
develops into Prussia
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"mark" of the holy roman empire
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name for a bordering state of the holy roman empire
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Teutonic Knights
Definition
military crusading order which conquered and chrsitianed the native people in the 13th century/settled territory in northern Germany
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Frederick William
Definition
The Great Elector- one of the first men to modernize Prussia created a good army
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Frderick III of Brandenburg
Definition
same as frederick 1 of prussia
the less honorable king of prussia, who became the only king of prussia
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Frederick II The Great
Definition
king of prussia
challenges austria begins war of the austria succession
rules from 1713 to 1740
ruled in fatherly german way
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Great Northern War
Definition
1700-1721; fought between russia and sweden for supremacy in the baltic sea
ended with treaty of nystad
russia essentially won
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Europeanization
Definition
the east took on more european approaches became closer with europeans
(russians)
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Muscovy
Definition
the name for the great russians who lived around muscow
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slavic
Definition
family of languages to which bohemians belonged
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Ivan III (The Great)
Definition
threw off the mongol overlordship in russia
(asians no longer ruled Russia)
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Great Russians
Definition
name for muscovities who lived around muscow
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Tartar
Definition
people who lived along the volga river, name given to turkish and mongolic tribes who invaded eastern europe
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Cossacks
Definition
semi-independent cowboys who lived between the tartars and russia
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White Russians
Definition
lived west of muscovy
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little russians
Definition
lived southwest of muscovy
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Archangel
Definition
way by which richard chancellor arrived in moscow from England
seaport in northern russia
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duma
Definition
council of retainers
like the diet is to hre and parliament is to england
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streltsi
Definition
a kind of moscow guard
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Ivan IV (The Terrible)
Definition
1533-1584; frist grand duke of muscovy to get the title of tsar
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Time of Troubles
Definition
russia fell into this after Ivan the terrible died in 1584

(1604-1613)
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Michael Romanov
Definition
17 year old czar, family ruled russia until 1917
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first czar of russia
Definition
ivan the terrible or Ivan IV
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Stephen Razin
Definition
gathered fugitive serfs in 1667 and plundered russian vessels in a kind of serf rebellion
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Old Believers
Definition
rejected reforms of the Russian Partriarch Church in the 1650's
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Procurator of the Holy Synod
Definition
head of the government bureau to make sure the russian church didn't displease the czar
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What Religion was Russia
Definition
Greek Orthodox
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what religion was poland
Definition
catholic
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what was peter the greats goal as a czar?
Definition
to reform russia to be able to stand against the west
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what is prussia made up of?
Definition
Brandenburg, Farther Pomerania (eventually becomes part of brandenburg), Pomerelia (slavic), the duchy of prussia (germanic) which is parat of the republic of poland until 1660 when inherited by the hohenzollerns
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Hohenzollerns
Definition
noble family, electors, kings in Prussia, Germany, and Romania; family to which frederick william belongs
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Hanover
Definition
germanic royal dynasty
first of which was George I
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