- The first Stuart monarch, claimed to rule by divine right, often clashed with Puritans.
- government whose power is defined and limited by law
- Frowned on taverns, gambling, and dancing. Felt that every Christian, rich and poor, must be able to read the Bible. To spread religious knowledge, they encouraged education for all people.
- Finance minister, who helped make France the wealthiest state in Europe. Fostered overseas colonies, such as New France in North America and several colonies in India.
- Nearly 7 feet tall, with a booming laugh and a furious temper.
- Ensured the superiority of Parliament over the monarchy, requiring the monarch to summon Parliament regularly.
- Maintaining a distribution of military and economic power to prevent any one country from dominating.
- Government in which the ruling power belongs to a few people
- By 1750, five European powers had come to dominate European affairs. Which is NOT one of those powers?
- To protect protestants, it granted the Huguenots religious toleration and other freedoms.
- "It is good," he said, "to hear subjects speaking truth fully and openly to their king," yet he was a very harsh ruler.
- Appeared during the Thirty Years' War, had not been seen in settled areas since the Middle Ages.
- Saw himself as the guardian of the Catholic Church, whose great undertaking of his life was to defend the Catholic Reformation and turn back the rising Protestant tide in Europe, fighting many wars to advance Spanish Catholic power.
- Special laws, regulations or important information
- Summoned Parliament only 13 times. "Good Queen Bess"-died childless in 1603.
- Wealthy nobles, proud of their plumed hats and fashionably long hair, well trained in dueling and warfare, supporters of Charles I in the English Civil War.
- Hapsburg ruler who gave up his title in 1556 to enter a monastery.
- Peter and Catherine the Great shared all of these in common EXCEPT
- Thought to be invincible, sailed into the English Harbor in 1588 in response to the sinking of treasure ships by English sea dogs.
- An enormous palace a few miles outside of Paris, a grand spectacle of kingly power.