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Jeopardy 21
The Rise of Monarchies
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History
10th Grade
04/11/2007

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Muslim conquerors driven out of Spain by the Reconquista
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the Moors
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Monarchs who united Spanish kingdoms
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Ferdinand and Isabella
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Two groups of Spaniards ordered to convert to Catholicism
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Jews and Moors (Muslims)
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Source of Spain's precious-metal wealth
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the American colonies
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Huge Spanish invasion fleet destroyed by a fleet in 1588
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the Armada
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Church court that punished people suspected of heresy
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the Inquisition
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Hapsburg ruler of Spain, a native of Flanders, who was also the Holy Roman Emperor
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Charles I (Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire)
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Native Spanish Hapsburg ruler, hardworking and devout
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Philip II
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How Philip strengthened Spanish government
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a strong centralized government
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Northern European country Philip tried to invade and conquer
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England
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Type of rule established by Ferdinand and Isabella
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an absolute monarchy
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Result of expelling non-Catholics from Spain
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the destruction of the middle class
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Religion promoted by Ferdinand and Isabella
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Catholicism
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Term for Philip's branch of the ruling family
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the Spanish Hapsburgs
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Capital established by Philip
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Madrid
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Kingdom seized by Spain in 1580
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Portugal
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Protestant northern European area that successfully fought for independence from Spain
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the Netherlands
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Economic problem caused by the flood of gold and silver into Spain
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inflation
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Empire that lost a fierce naval battle to Spain at Lepanto in 1571
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the Ottoman Empire
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Greek artist in Spain who painted figures with very long bodies
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El Greco
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Brilliant court painter to Philip IV
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Diego Velasquez
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Result of French religious conflicts
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a civil war
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Lavish palaces built by the French king outside Paris
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Versailles
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European language of diplomacy and nobility
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French
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Alliances against France aimed to preserve this in Europe.
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the balance of power
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French Protestants
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the Huguenots
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King who ended the fighting between Protestants and Catholics
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Henry IV (Henry of Navarre)
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Representative body that did not meet from 1614 to 1789
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the Estates-General
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Family that began to rule France in 1589
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the Bourbons
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Chief minister, churchman, actual ruler of France from 1624 to 1642
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Social class weakened by Richelieu and Louis XIV
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the nobles
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"Sun King" who reportedly claimed, "I am the state."
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Louis XIV
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Major drains on the French treasury under Louis XIV
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years of wars and/or costs of the court
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War fought to determine the king of Spain, from which France lost territory
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the War of the Spanish Succession
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Result of Louis XIV's recovotation of the Huguenots' religious freedom
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loss of skilled workers and businesspeople
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Decree that granted French Protestants freedom of worship
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the Edict of Nantes
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Queen who allowed Catholics to attack Protestants
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Catherine de Medici
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King who let his chief minister run France
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Louis XIII
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Louis's chief minister, a believer in mercantilism
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Colbert
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Long war from which France gained much power
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the Thirty Years' War
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Terrible anti-Huguenot event of 1572
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the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
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Ruling family of Austria
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the Hapsburgs
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Prussia was noted for this well-organized body.
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its army
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"Empire" whose title was entirely meaningless
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the Holy Roman Empire
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Russian family that came to power in 1613 and ruled for three centuries
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the Romanovs
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Tsar Peter the Great's goal for a changed Russian society
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westernization
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War of 1618-1648 in Germany, fought for religious and then political reasons
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the Thirty Years' War
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War of 1756-1763 that involved almost all of Europe
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the Seven Years' War
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First important Russian ruler
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Peter the Great (Peter I)
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Tsar Peter the Great ordered his nobles to remove these.
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beards
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Russian port built as Russia's "window to Europe," named for Peter the Great
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St. Petersburg
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German princess who ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796
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Catherine the Great
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Country partitioned out of existence by Russia, Prussia, and Austria
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Poland
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"The Great Fritz," Frederick II of Prussia
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Frederick the Great
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Country devastated by the Thirty Years' War
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Germany
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Most powerful and important state within the Holy Roman Empire
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Austria
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Religion of Austria
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Catholic
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Religion of Prussia
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Protestant
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All Hohenzollern possessions in northern Germany
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Prussia
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Skillful Austrian ruler who gained her title through her husband
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Maria Theresa
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Enduring Russian foreign policy goal set by Peter the Great
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to acquire warm-water seaports
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Popular ruling family
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the Tudors
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Unpopular ruling family
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the Stuarts
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Leader of the Puritans, who ruled as Lord Protector
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Oliver Cromwell
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Fate of King Charles I
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to be beheaded
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What the Restoration restored, politically
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the monarchy
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Popular form of entertainment that the Restoration restored
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the theater
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Document that established many basic rights of the English people
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the Bill (Declaration) of Rights
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The last Tudor monarch
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Elizabeth I
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The first Stuart monarch
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James I
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Type of ruler Cromwell was, essentially
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a military dictator
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English Protestants who wanted to "purify" the Anglican Church
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the Puritans
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The second Stuart monarch, who dissolved Parliament in 1629
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Charles I
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James I firmly believed in this theory of a monarch's power
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the divine right of kings
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Civil war began in 1642 when Charles I led troops against this body.
Definition
the House of Commons
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Country that the first Stuart monarch also ruled
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Scotland
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Successor to the Cromwells
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Charles II
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Reason why the English monarch had to consult Parliament
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to raise taxes
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Term for the bloodless overthrow of King James II
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the Glorious Revolution
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New joint rulers of England in 1688
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William and Mary
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Type of monarchy Great Britain became in the 1700s
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a limited constitutional monarchy
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