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1 WORLD HISTORY CHAPTER 14 PACKET: CRISIS AND ABSOLUTISM IN EUROPE (1550 CE CE) Take-Home Homework Packet 100 Points Honor Code I understand that this is an independent assignment and that I can not receive any assistance from any other person. I will conduct all of my own research and will answer the questions to the best of my ability. Student Name Date Student Signature Parent Name Date Parent Signature

2 14.1 Europe in Crisis: The Wars of Religion Outline (pp ) I. The French Wars of Religion II. Philip II and Militant Catholicism III. The England of Elizabeth

3 14.1 Europe in Crisis: The Wars of Religion Reading Check Questions (pp ) 1. List the sequence of events that led to the Edict of Nantes. 2. How important was Catholicism to Philip II and the Spanish people? 3. Why was Philip II confident that the Spanish could successfully invade England?

4 14.1 Europe in Crisis: The Wars of Religion Terms, People, & Places (pp ) 1. militant 2. armada 3. Huguenots 4. Henry of Navarre 5. King Phillip II 6. William the Silent 7. Elizabeth Tudor 8. Netherlands 9. Scotland 10. Ireland

5 14.2 Social Crises, War, and Revolution Outline (pp ) I. Economic and Social Crisis II. The Witchcraft Trials III. The Thirty Years' War IV. Revolutions in England a. The Stuarts and Divine Right b. Civil War and the Commonwealth c. The Restoration d. A Glorious Revolution

6 14.2 Social Crises, War, and Revolution Reading Check Questions (pp ) 1. Explain the causes for inflation in Europe in the 1600s. 2. What were the characteristics of the majority of those accused of witchcraft? 3. How did the peace of Westphalia impact the Holy Roman Empire? 4. Trace the sequence of events that led to the English Bill of Rights.

7 14.2 Social Crises, War, and Revolution Terms, People, & Places (pp ) 1. inflation 2. witchcraft 3. divine right of kings 4. commonwealth 5. James I 6. Puritans 7. Charles I 8. Cavaliers 9. Roundheads 10. Oliver Cromwell 11. James II 12. Holy Roman Empire 13. Bohemia

8 14.3 Response to Crisis: Absolutism Outline (pp ) I. France under Louis XIV a. Richelieu and Mazarin b. Louis Comes to Power c. Government and Religion d. The Economy and War e. Legacy of Louis XIV II. Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe a. The Emergence of Prussia b. The New Austrian Empire III. Russia under Peter the Great a. Military and Governmental Changes b. Cultural Changes c. St. Petersburg

9 14.3 Response to Crisis: Absolutism Reading Check Questions (pp ) 1. What steps did Louis XIV take to maintain absolute power? 2. Why was the Austrian monarchy unable to create a highly centralized, absolutist state? 3. Why was it so important that Peter the Great have a seaport on the Baltic?

10 14.3 Response to Crisis: Absolutism Terms, People, & Places (pp ) 1. absolutism 2. czar 3. boyar 4. Louis XIV 5. Cardinal Richelieu 6. Frederick William the Great Elector 7. Ivan IV 8. Michael Romanov 9. Peter the Great 10. Prussia 11. Austria 12. St. Petersburg

11 14.4 The World of European Culture Outline (pp ) I. Mannerism II. The Baroque Period III. A Golden Age of Literature a. England's Shakespeare b. Spanish Literature IV. Political Thought a. Hobbes b. Locke

12 14.4 The World of European Culture Reading Check Questions (pp ) 1. What did the mood of El Greco's paintings reflect? 2. How did baroque art and architecture reflect the seventeenth-century search for power? 3. When was the "golden age" of Spanish literature? Who set the standards for playwrights? 4. According to Hobbes, why was absolute power needed?

13 14.4 The World of European Culture Terms, People, & Places (pp ) 1. Mannerism 2. baroque 3. natural rights 4. El Greco 5. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 6. William Shakespeare 7. Lope de Vega 8. Miguel de Cervantes 9. Thomas Hobbes 10. John Locke 11. Madrid 12. Prague 13. Vienna 14. Brussels

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