Exam 16: The Rise of Sovereignty: Transition to the Modern State

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s) -Indicate the location of two absolute monarchies and two of the most important of the non-absolutist states as of 1700.

The decline of Spain demonstrates all the following except

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Magna Carta

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -The author states that "[f]rom the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, a new and unique form of political organization emerged in the West: the dynastic, or national, state." What does she mean by "dynastic state," how did it develop and why was it so unique?

Although the differences between Russia and the West were immense, the political arrangement in Russia resembled somewhat that in

Over time, the constitutional system created by the Revolution of 1688-1689

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -dynastic state

In the "court and country" opposition that shaped seventeenth-century English politics country refers to

By the 1660s, France had

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s) -Locate the following sites: the major Dutch urban centers of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and The Hague; the location where the Fronde occurred, Paris; the site where a Concordat was signed, Bologna; the place from which the Spanish Armada set sail, Lisbon; and finally Antwerp, which was sacked by Spanish soldiers.

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -New Christians

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -"Time of Troubles"

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Explain the dramatic increase of Spanish power in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the dramatic decline in Spanish power in the seventeenth century.

Which of the following drove Louis XIV to near-bankruptcy?

According to the author, the last chance to unify the Holy Roman Empire ended with

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Versailles

The crucial difference between a parliament and an estates general was

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Gallican Church

The formative group or force in most early modern European states was/were the

In plotting against James II in 1688, England's elite attempted to