Unit 3 Review

An English military and political leader best known for making England a republic.

• Elizabeth I

• St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

• Defenestration of Prague

• Oliver Cromwell

Given credit for "modernizing" Russia. Bringing it to the status of other European nations.

• Cavaliers

• Roundheads

• Oliver Cromwell

• Peter the Great

Queen of England and Ireland. Daughter of Ann Boleyn who was executed by Henry VIII. Queen when Spanish Armada was defeated.

• Elizabeth I

• Roundheads

• Oliver Cromwell

• Peter the Great

A massive fleet of 130 ships sent by King Philip II of Spain to conquer England in 1588, in retaliation for Elizabeth I's support of Protestant rebels in the Netherlands.

• Spanish Armada

• Huguenots

• Edict of Nantes

• Treaty of Westphalia

A French Protestant of the 16th-17th centuries. Largely Calvinist, suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority

• Spanish Armada

• Huguenots

• Edict of Nantes

• Treaty of Westphalia

(April 1598) granted the minority Calvinist Protestants of France, also known as Huguenots, substantial rights in the nation.

• Spanish Armada

• Huguenots

• Edict of Nantes

• Treaty of Westphalia

(1572) was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion.

• Elizabeth I

• St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

• Defenestration of Prague

• Cinco De Mayo

A political system where one ruler has unlimited power and no checks or balances from other institutions… (Kings/Queens have absolute power within their borders).

• Roundheads

• Oliver Cromwell

• Peter the Great

• Absolutism

The supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642-1651). Fought against the king and Cavaliers.

• Roundheads

• Oliver Cromwell

• Peter the Great

• Absolutism

A political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of a monarchy…. the idea that the right to rule comes from God and is above reproach of man.

• Roundheads

• Divine Right of Kings

• Peter the Great

• Absolutism