AP EUROPEAN HISTORY: ABSOLUTISM/CONSTITUTIONALISM IN WESTERN EUROPE ID’s/QUESTIONS: Answer the id’s and questions using the textbook reading or supplementary reader. Most of the questions require more than a word or two to answer thoroughly for full credit. For the id’s, include something about why it is a big deal (what happened there/when, something they did, etc). Id’s are worth 1 point; questions are worth 3 points.

1. absolutism 44. Glorious Revolution

2. constitutionalism 45. Robert Walpole 3. divine right of kings 46. George I 4. Bourbon Dynasty 5. Sully 1. What are the characteristics of absolutism? 6. Marie de Medici 2. What methods did Sully and Richelieu use to strengthen 7. regent their respective monarchies? 8. Louis XIV 3. Explain what caused the Fronde Wars and the effect they 9. Cardinal Richelieu had on future kings? 10. intendants 4. Explain the phrase, “When Louis (XIV) sneezed, all 11. raison d’etat Europe caught cold.” Provide an example. 12. Cardinal Marazin 5. How did Colbert attempt to reform French finances? 13. Queen Anne (Austria) 6. What were the effects of the revocation of the Edict of 14. “L’etat c’est moi” Nantes? 15. Fronde 7. Explain the War of Spanish Succession. 16. Versailles 8. Explain the decline of Spain as a world power. 17. Estates-General 9. What problems did James I and Charles I encounter as 18. Jean Colbert kings? 19. mercantilism 10. What was the Restoration? 20. Moliere 11. Describe English government after the Glorious 21. Racine Revolution. 22. Treaty of Nijmegen 12. Describe the Golden Age of the Netherlands. 23. League of Augsburg 24. capitation 25. Charles II 26. Philip of Anjou 27. Grand Aliance 28. Peace of Utrecht 29. Miguel Cervantes 30. quixotic 31. James I 32. Charles I 33. Short Parliament 34. Long Parliament 35. English Civil War (basic 5 w’s) 36. Thomas Hobbes 37. John Locke 38. commonwealth 39. Oliver Cromwell 40. cabal 41. James II 42. William and Mary

AP EUROPEAN HISTORY: ABSOLUTISM IN EASTERN EUROPE ID’s/QUESTIONS: Answer the id’s and questions using the textbook reading or supplementary reader. Most of the questions require more than a word or two to answer thoroughly for full credit. For the id’s, include something about why it/they is a big deal (what happened there/when, something they did, etc). Id’s are worth 1 point; questions are worth 3 points. 1. Junker 2. Hohenzollern 3. Romanov 4. boyar 5. autocracy 6. Mongols 7. Pragmatic Sanction 8. Frederick the Great 9. Ivan the Terrible 10. Frederick William I 11. Ivan III 12. Peter the Great 13. St. Petersburg

1. What were the characteristics of absolutism in Eastern Europe, and how was it different from the Western model? 2. Name the three areas under Habsburg domination. 3. Name the three Prussian areas. 4. Why was Ivan “terrible”? 5. What was Peter “great”? 6. How did Peter “westernize” Russia? 7. How is baroque art an extension of absolutism?