Exam 15: European Monarchies and Absolutism,1660–1725

The Estates-General in France never met during the reign of Louis XIV.

The popular name for those who opposed Charles II's move toward absolutism was:

After securing a foothold on the Gulf of Finland,Peter the Great built a capital there named:

What was the role of the Treaty of Utrecht in redefining the balance of power?

In England,Charles II triggered a crisis not unlike that produced by his father's rule when he:

The balance of power in eastern Europe was realigned in 1721 with the Peace of:

The Russian Table of Ranks reordered the class system in Russia to be,from lowest to highest:

The court culture at Versailles was ordered by:

The purpose of reorganizing class structure in Russia by creating the Table of Ranks was to:

All governments in Europe strove to be absolutist over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

In general,the centralization of state power in eastern Europe came at the expense of the:

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,absolutism was a political theory that:

What was the role of the peasant in Russian society and government?

Louis XIV persecuted some Catholic sects in France because some,like the:

Absolutism was difficult for the Habsburgs to achieve in the Holy Roman Empire because:

How did the French colonies assist Louis XIV's absolutist project?

Peter the Great's victory against Sweden in the Great Northern War resulted in Russian ports on the:

James II of England angered his critics and set off a national crisis when he:

To achieve the goal of absolutist rule,_________ was an absolute necessity.

The balance of power in central and eastern Europe was reshaped at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries because of the loss of power of: