CHS Age of Absolutism Vocabulary

Austrian rulers of the Holy Roman Empire and the Netherlands

• Monarchs

• Parliament

• The Fronde

• The Hapsburgs

ruler with complete authority over government and the lives of the people

• Absolute Monarch

• Huguenots

• Roundheads

• Cavaliers

Authority to rule comes directly from God

• Anglican

• Balance of Power

• Divine Right

• Limited Monarchy

High fleet, ships

• Armada

• Cavaliers

• Czar

• Levellers

French protestants, stayed in constant struggle with Catholic French majority

• Stuarts

• Puritans

• intendants

• Huguenots

this granted Huguenots religious toleration, letting them inhabit their own towns and cities

• the Hapsburgs

• Huguenots

• Edict of Nantes

• Balance of Power

Uprisings by nobles, merchants, peasants, and the urban poor

• Commonwealth

• Parliament

• The Fronde

• Puritans

royal officials who collected taxes, recruited soldiers, and carried out royal policies in the provinces

• Roundheads

• Levellers

• Tudors

• Intendants

the distribution of military and economic power that would prevent any country from dominating Europe

• Balance of Power

• Petition of Right

• Edict of Nantes

• Habeas Corpus

important family dynasty in England

• Anglican

• Stuarts

• Puritans

• Tudors