Exam 13: European State Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

How did the duke of Orléans weaken France after the death of Louis XIV? Which of his initiatives became symbolic of French decline? How?

When James I and Charles I attempted to rule as strong monarchs,they were blocked primarily by ________.

Which these were the major components of the Habsburg lands in the 1700s?

Charles I might have ruled indefinitely without Parliament had his religious policies not provoked war with ________.

What were the chief foreign threats to the Austrian Habsburgs during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? How did the Habsburg rulers seek to contain those threats?

In the Netherlands,more people lived in __________ than in any other area of Europe.

When James II became king,he immediately demanded the repeal of the _________.

The ________ dynasty ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917.

According to advocates of the "divine right of kings," kings could be judged only by ________.

The idea of the divine right of kings was attractive to monarchs because it effectively ________.

Russian victory in the Great Northern War led to ________.

During the reign of James I,the British Parliament met ________.

Prussia is unique in early modern history because the Hohenzollerns ________.

The reign of Ivan IV was immediately followed by the ________.

The Habsburg Empire can be described as ________.

John Locke argues against absolute monarchy in his ________.

Describe the rule of Oliver Cromwell.How was he like or unlike English royal rulers? Explain his successes and failures and tell what accounts for those successes and failures.

What were the two most important models of European political development in the early modern period?

Peter the Great replaced the position of patriarch with the ________.

Compare two noble groups in Europe in the early modern period-such as the boyars and junkers-and examine their agendas,their political power,and how they shaped both domestic and foreign policy.