Absolute Monarchy

This dynasty ruled both Spain and the Holy Roman Empire during the 1500s.

• Bourbon Dynasty

• Hapsburg Dynasty

• Stuart Dyasty

• Tudor Dynasty

This dynasty ruled France from 1589 until the French Revolution.

• Hapsburg

• Tudor

• Stuart

• Bourbon

Charles V was simultaneously king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor from 1516-1556.

• True

• False

Philip II of Spain refused to send the Spanish Armada against his protestant enemy Elizabeth I of England in 1588.

• True

• False

Louis XIV (absolute monarch of France in the 1600s) built a lavish palace south of Paris called:

• Buckingham Palace

• Sans Souci

• Versailles

• The Escorial

This founder of the Bourbon Dynasty in France brought peace between protestants and Catholics by converting to Catholicism in 1589 ("Paris is worth a mass.")

• Louis XIV

• Francois I

• Louis XIII

• Henry IV

French Calvinists were called

• Roundheads

• Puritans

• Huguenots

• Cavaliers

The treaty that brought peace to the Holy Roman Empire after the religious wars called The Thirty Years War was the _____.

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Westphalia

• Treaty of London

This absolute monarch westernized Russia (1682-1725) after visiting France and other countries in Western Europe before becoming Czar

• Catherine the Great

• Peter the Great

• Louis XIV

• Louis XIII

This king of England was behead by order of Parliament in 1649.

• James I

• James II

• Charles I

• Charles II