Absolutism Quiz

Creating a strong professional army

Consolidation of power under the king or queen

Empowerment of the Church

Limiting influence of nobility and clergy

Both sides hired mercenaries who plundered the German countryside.

Russia became involved in a religious conflict for the first time.

The Ottoman Empire invaded during the course of the war.

The war was fought both in Europe and North America.

By arguing it came from a social contract with their citizens.

By arguing that their wealth entitled them to it.

By arguing it came from God.

By arguing they had won it through combat.

Louis XIV

Henry IV

Elizabeth I

Philip II

France became the dominant power at Austria's expense.

The newly independent Netherlands became the most powerful country in Europe.

Austria dethroned the French Bourbons and became the strongest nation.

England emerged with an absolute monarchy.

The power of the Habsburgs increases

The Swiss Federation is absorbed by France

The German states are officially divided

The Thirty Years' War begins

Hire tax collectors that work directly for them

Give additional power to the nobility

Assemble a professional army

Create an organized government bureaucracy

An extremely well-trained and professional army

Quick-witted and skilled diplomats

A world-class navy

Increasingly tyrannical absolute monarchs

It created a separate state in Gascony for French Protestants

It forced all French Catholics to move to Canada

It provided Huguenots with religious freedom

It provided Catholics with religious freedoms

Great Britain officially announced friendship with France.

Spain lost control of the Mexican silver trade.

Austria allied with France, a historical rival.

Russia intervened to stop continental wars.

He held so much power he was functionally the center of France.

He funded the first mission to the Moon.

He successfully conquered Moscow.

The Pope named him such in a ceremony following the Thirty Years' War.

Louis XIV viewed it as an opportunity to assert power over the Austrians.

France wanted to oppose Britain, who had agreed to help Austria and the Catholics.

The Pope had directed all Catholic kings to support the Protestants.

Louis XIV had recently converted to Calvinism.