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Western Civilization
Ch.16 Notes
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01/22/2007

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dynastic
Definition
national
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absolutism
Definition
govt in which single ruler and his court possess total and centralized power
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William Doyle
Definition
British historian
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Dutch Republic
Definition
broke the pattern of king-army-taxes as the key to the creation of a centralized state
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Dutch Republic
Definition
broke the pattern of king-army-taxes as the key to the creation of a centralized state
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Dutch Republic
Definition
broke the pattern of king-army-taxes as the key to the creation of a centralized state
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Dutch Republic
Definition
broke the pattern of king-army-taxes as the key to the creation of a centralized state
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Ferdinand
Definition
heir to the throne of Aragon
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Isabella
Definition
Ferdinand wife and cousin
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Hapsburg
Definition
German-speaking family of central Europe
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Granada
Definition
last Muslim ruled territory of Spain
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Inquisition
Definition
church tribunal to pursecute Jews
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Hernado Cortes
Definition
defeated the Aztec nation with six hundred
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hidalgos
Definition
members of the minor aristocracy
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Charles
Definition
Ferdinand and Isabella's grandson
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Charles V
Definition
reign rested on the twin instruments of army and bureaucracy
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Philip II
Definition
strengths and weaknesses of the Spanish state became fully evident
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Old Christians
Definition
claimed to be untainted because for centuries they had refused to marry
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New Christians
Definition
Jew converts to Christianity
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Thirty Year's War
Definition
Spain takes an agressive posture
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Peace of Westphalia
Definition
Spain officially recognized the independence of the Netherlands
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sovereignty
Definition
absolute power of a nation
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Hugh Capet
Definition
king of France in 987
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divine right of kings
Definition
French kings had been selected by God to rule
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Estates
Definition
Assembly such as Parliament
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Hundred Years War
Definition
English were driven out of France
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Francis I
Definition
concluded the Concordat of Bologna
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Gallican Church
Definition
Concordat of Bologna laid foundation for this
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Huguenot
Definition
Protestant
Term
Vindiciae contra Tyrannos
Definition
attack on the rights of the kings
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Henry II
Definition
Wed to Catherine de Medicis
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Henry IV
Definition
French throne acquired its central positions in national politics
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Louis XIII
Definition
realized that his ruledepended on an efficient and trustworthy bureaucracy
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Cardinal Richelieu
Definition
served as Louis XIII's chief minister
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Cardinal Richelieu
Definition
served as Louis XIII's chief minister
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raison d etat
Definition
reason of state
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Mazarin
Definition
cardinal who had never been ordained a priest
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Fronde
Definition
a series of riots
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Jean Baptiste Colbert
Definition
a brilliant administrator
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intendants
Definition
functionaries dispatched with wide powers in the provinces
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War of Spanish Succession
Definition
essentially a land war fought on the battlefields of northern Europe
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William duke of Normandy
Definition
invaded and conquered England
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parlays
Definition
parliament
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parlays
Definition
parliament
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Magna Carta
Definition
guaranteed certain aristocratic pivileges
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War of the Roses
Definition
pitted two noble families against each other
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Henry VII
Definition
spent much of his reign consolidating and extending his authority
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Mary
Definition
Henry's first daughter
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Elizabeth I
Definition
middle road to the protestant reformation
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James I
Definition
Stuart king
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Charles I
Definition
Stuart King
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Oliver Cromwell
Definition
Puritan squire with a gift for military
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Gerrard Winstanley
Definition
the first teoretician of social democracy in modern times
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John Lilburne
Definition
the Leveller
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James II
Definition
a fearless Catholic and admirer to French absolutism
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Glorious Revolution
Definition
created a new political and constitutional reality
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Maximilian I
Definition
achieved a degree of cohesion comparable with that in France and Spain
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Treaty of Ausburg
Definition
gave every German prince the right to determine the religion of his subjects
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Ferdinand II
Definition
ascended the throne of the Holy Roman Empire
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Hohenzollerns
Definition
ruling dynasty of Prussia
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Frederick William
Definition
played a key role in forging the new Prussian state
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Landtage
Definition
Prussian assembly
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Ivan IV
Definition
impose a tsarist autocracy
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Peter the Great
Definition
ruthlessly suppressed the independent aristocrats while inventing new titles and ranks for his supporters
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Holy Synod
Definition
new Russian office
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hegemony
Definition
domination over all others
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