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Chapter 15: State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century Key Terms and Essays

Key Terms Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words, describe what it is or who it is and explain why it matters.)

witchcraft the Thirty Years War the Peace of Westphalia standing armies Gustavus Adolphus
 * Social Crisis, War, and Rebellion**

Biship Jacques Bossuet absolutism divine right monarchy Richelieu Mazarin King Louis XIV Intendants Fronde,Versailles, Louis XIV’s wars Edict of Fontainebleau Colbert Peace of Utrecht
 * The Practice of Absolutism: Western Europe**

Frederick William the Great Elector the Hohenzollerns Treaty of Karlwitz the Romanovs Russian Serfdom Orthodox Church Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Great Northern War Vienna and the Ottoman Empire Sejm House of Orange Amsterdam
 * Absolutism in Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe**

the Stuarts James I Puritans English Civil War Charles I Oliver Cromwell Levellers Restoratoin Test Act James II the Glorious Revolution Thomas Hobbes John Locke the Bill of Rights
 * Limited Monarchy and Republics**

Mannerism El Greco Baroque Bernini French Classicism Dutch Realism Rembrandt Van Rijn, Leyster Moliere
 * The Flourishing European Culture**

Short Answer Question (SAQ) Essays: Again, you will write a short essay question response, in class:

1) State three reasons why the Thirty Years' War represented a turning point in European history.
2) Explain two reasons for the struggle between the king and Parliament in seventeenth-century England, and explain one way it was resolved. (tThe resolution has to include a discussion of the Glorious Revolution and the English Bill of Rights)?( 3) Compare the ideas of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Give two reasons for why one had a better grasp of human nature and the idea of government and one reason why the other had a better grasp of either human nature or the idea of government.