AP Euro Unit 2

By agilbert997
  • Period: Nov 13, 1533 to

    Ivan the Terrible as Tsar

    Russia
  • Period: to

    Oliver Cromwell lifespan

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    Russian Time of Troubles

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    Louis XIII's son Lifespan

    1624: Richelieu as advisor
    Politique
    Made France absolute & strongest power

  • Dutch East India co. founded

  • Period: to

    James I as King

    English; Stuart dynasty-divine right; disliked; threated parliament/common law; KJ Bible 1611
  • Period: to

    Rembrandt Lifespan

    Introduced emotion, chiascuro, thought, drama & self-portraiture to art.

  • Bank of Amsterdam founded

    Fixed rate of exchange; florin=reserve currency (today's $); checking accounts
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    Gustavus Adolphus as king

    Sweden

  • Michael Romanov founds R. Dynasty

    Russian
    Lasts until 1917

  • 30 YRs war begins

  • Brandenburg/Berlin elector inherits Prussia

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    30YW / Bohemian Phase

  • Period: to

    30YW / Danish Phase

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    Charles I as King

    English; married Louis XIII's sister; accelerates Puritan exodus to New England; Ship money

  • Petition of Right

    Parliament reaffirms:
    Taxes by consent of Par. only
    Habeas Corpus--court before criminalization
    No quartering in peacetime

  • Par. Dissolved - Charles I

    Charles I as absolute ruler til 1640
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    30YW / Swedish Phase

  • Period: to

    Baruch Spinoza Lifespan

    Skeptic, philosopher, agnostic Jew
  • Period: to

    Christiana as Queen

    Sweden
  • Period: to

    30YW / Swedish-French Phase

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    Louis XIV Lifespan

    King 1643-1715
    Sun King, Grand Monarch
    L'etat c'est moi - The state is me
    Divine Right
    until 1661: Mazarin as advisor

  • Short Parliament Meets

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    Long Parliament meets

    Met every 3 yrs
    Refused to be dissolved
  • Period: to

    Frederick William as Great Elector

    Prussia
    "army in being"
  • Period: to

    English Civil War

    Cavaliers (king) vs Roundheads (parliament)

  • 30YW Ends / Treaties of Westphalia

  • Prussia adds Westphalia & eastern pomerania

  • Subjugation of Ireland

    Forced conversion from Catholicism
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    William of Orange lifespan

    Dutch; Calvinist; elected Stadholder 1673; married Mary Stuart 1677; William & Mary 1689

  • Navigation Acts

    Attack on Dutch trade
    Practically monopolized trade w/ the colonies
  • Period: to

    OC as Lord Protector

    Authorized by Instrument of Gov't (1653)
    Puritan moral crusades
  • Period: to

    Charles II as King

    English
    Dubbed "Merry Monarch"

  • Plague Returns/Great Fire

    Both in London
    PR: 1665; 100k+ deaths
    GF: 1666; 80k homeless in 5 days

  • War of Devolution

    Blocked by triple alliance of Dutch, England, Sweden
  • Period: to

    Stephen Razin's Rebellion

    Russia

  • Dutch War

    France fought w/ England
    Blocked by William of Orange, Habsburgs, Denmark, Dutch, Poland 1678: Treaty of Nimwegen
  • Period: to

    Peter the Great lifespan

    Russia
    Visited West Euro. -> Westernization of Russia

  • Occupation of Strasbourg

    France got all up in Germany's business
    nobody could stop them

  • Edict of Nantes - Revocation

    Showed turning point of LXIV's rule
    Terrible idea.
  • Period: to

    James II as King

    Catholics in violation of test act 1673
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    War of League of Augsburg

    LoA: HRE, Spanish, Swedes, Dutch, Electors of Bavaria, Saxony & Palatinate 1697: Treaty of Ryswick
    Status quo antebellum - same as before
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    Frederick I as Great Elector

    Prussia

  • William & Mary take over England

    1688: Invitation sent to W&M
    1689: W&M accept crown, Bill of Rights
    1701: Act of Settlement--No Catholic King
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    Charles XII as King

    Sweden
    1709: Battle of Poltava. win vs Russia, later loss
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    War of Spanish Succession

    1st world war
    France vs Everyone else

  • Peace of Utrecht / Treaty of Rastadt

    PoU: 1713
    ToR: 1714
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    Frederick William I as Great Elector

    Prussia
    75% budget reduction; 200k men in army; 7mil $ surplus
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    War of Austrian Succession

    Prussia (Frederick the Great) / France vs Austria (MT) / Britain

  • Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle

    Ends Austrian war of succession
    Status quo antebellum

  • Diplomatic Revolution

    Austria + France
    Prussia + Britain
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    7 YRs War / French-Indian War

    1754 Starts in America
    2nd world war

  • Treaty of Paris

    Ends F-I war