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FREE EUROPEAN HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT
CLAY'S AP EURO NOTES EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: Puritan Revolution
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A reference to the English civil war (1642-1646), waged to determine whether sovereignty would reside in the monarch or parliament
Question 2: Indulgence
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Papal pardon for remission of sins
Question 3: Concordat(1801)
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Napoleon's arrangement with Pope Pius VII to heal religious division in France with a united Catholic church under bishops appointed by the government
Question 4: Denis Diderot
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Encyclopedia
Question 5: Sans Culottes
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A reference to Parisian workers who wore loose-fitting trousers rather than the tight fitting breeches worn by aristocratic men
Question 6: Great Fear
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The panic and insecurity that struck French peasants in the summer of 1789 and led to their widespread destruction of manor houses and archives
Question 7: Francis Bacon
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(1561-1626) inductive thinker who stressed experimentation in arriving at truth
Question 8: Armada
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(1588)Spanish vessels defeated in the English channel by an English fleet, thus preventing Philip II's invasion of England
Question 9: Maria Theresa
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(1740-1780) Archduchess of Austria, queen of Hungary, who lost the Hapsburg possession of Silesia to Fredrick the Great but was able to keep her other Austrian territories
Question 10: Edict of Nantes
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(1598) The edict of Henry IV that granted Huguenots the rights of public worship and religious toleration in France
Question 11: Peace of Westphalia
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(1648)The treaty ending the Thirty Years' War in Germany; it allowed each prince-whether Lutheran, Catholic, or Calvinist-to choose the established creed of his territory
Question 12: Rationalism
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The application and use of reason in understanding and explaining events
Question 13: Puritans
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Protestant sect in England hoping to "purify" the anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice and organization
Question 14: John Knox
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(1505-1572) Calvinist leader in sixteenth-century Scotland
Question 15: John Calvin
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(1509-1564) A French theologian who established a theocracy in Geneva and is best known for his theory of predestination
Question 16: John Locke
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Two Treatises on Government; Essay on Human Understanding
Question 17: New Model Army
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The disciplined fighting force of Protestants led by Oliver Cromwell in the English civil war
Question 18: Charles II
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(1660-1685) Stuart king during the restoration, following Cromwell's Interregnum
Question 19: Theocracy
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A community, such as Calvin's Geneva, in which the state is subordinate to the church
Question 20: Levee en Masse
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The creation under the Jacobins, of a citizen army with support from young and old, heralding the emergence of modern warfare
Question 21: Robespierre
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(1758-1794) Jacobin leader during the Reign of Terror (1793-1794)
Question 22: James I
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(1603-1625) Stuart monarch who ignored constitutional principles and asserted the divine right of kings
Question 23: Taille
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A direct tax from which most french nobles were exempt
Question 24: Henry IV
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(1589-1610) Formerly Henry of Navarre; ascended the French throne as a convert to Catholicism.Survived St. Bartholomew's Day, Signed Edict of Nantes, quoted as saying "Paris is worth a mass"
Question 25: Cahier de doleances
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List of grievances that each Estate drew up in preparation for the summoning of the Estates-General in 1789
Question 26: New Monarch
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The term applied to Louis the XI of France, Henry the VII of England, and Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, who strengthened their monarchical authority often by Machiavellian means
Question 27: Philip II
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(1556-1598) Son and successor to Charles V, ruling Spain and the Low Countries
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