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| System of ruling where monarchs reduced the political power of the landlord nobility as they gained and monopolized their own political power. |
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| A form of government led by a ruler with absolute power. |
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| A style of art that grew out of the revitalized Catholic Church of the late sixteenth century. |
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| The representative body of the different estates, or legal orders in Bohemia. |
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| The nobility in the feudal division of the eastern Slavic territories. |
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| Free groups and outlaw armies that were formed to fight Ivan in an attempt to escape his rule. |
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| Religion that rejects the authority of the pope. |
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| The leader of the Brandenburg who had the right to choose the Holy Roman Emporer. |
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| Bound to their lords from one generation to the next as well as their land. |
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| The nobility and landowning classes of the estates of Brandenburg and Prussia. |
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| The name for the Mongolian rule over eastern Slavs for more than two hundred years. |
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| Proclaimed by Charles VI in 1713, it stated that the Habsburg possessions were never to be divided and were always to be passed intact to a single heir. |
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| System used by nobles and rulers where peasants were bound first to the land they worked and then, by degrading obligations to the lords they served. |
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| A newly emerging class who held the tsar's land on the explicit condition that they serve in the tsar's army. |
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| Leader of Otoman Empire who owned all the agricultural land of the empire and exploited it as he saw fit. |
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