Unit 5 Quiz - Conflict and Absolutism in Europe, 1550-1715

French Protestants influenced by John Calvin

architectural style characterized by elaborate ornamentation

a fleet of warships

English Protestants who felt that the Church of England needed further reform and sought to simplify and regulate forms

John Locke’s arguments were used in the eighteenth century to

a great writer of the golden age of Spanish literature

William Shakespeare is viewed as a genius because his works

laid the foundation for a Prussian state

In the Thirty Years’ War, France fought against both the Holy Roman Empire and Spain in order to

officially ended the Thirty Years’ War

By the end of King Philip II’s reign, Spain had

a rapid increase in prices

named Elizabeth governor of state and church

Thomas Hobbes believed that humans were guided by

The foundation for a constitutional monarchy in England began with the

specific rights that cannot be taken away

supporters of Parliament in the English Civil War

style of art that rejected the Renaissance ideals of balance and proportion

artist whose paintings represented the high point of Mannerism, reflecting the religious upheavals of the Reformation

ended the French Wars of Religion

belief that a ruler gets his power from God

James I of England believed in the divine right of kings, which is the idea that kings

Hobbes’s name for the state, which he believed needed an absolute ruler with unlimited power

greatest sculptor and architect of the baroque period

Oliver Cromwell’s defeat of the king of England’s forces allowed him to

What did Peter the Great see as crucial to making Russia a great power?

The mood of Mannerist art reflected the

one who does not conform to established doctrine

John Locke’s arguments were used in the eighteenth century to