England Central/Eastern Europe Louis XIV says… Economics Farming 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

Removal of James II, that nasty Catholic king, and his replacement by William of Orange and his cousin/wife, Mary.

Glorious Revolution

Agreed to by William and Mary before they could become England’s rulers; we have one, too.

Bill of Rights of 1689

I dissolved Parliament, tried to arrest its members which led to a civil war, and then I lost my head.

Charles I

First ruling queen of England; as a Catholic, she persecuted Protestants and returned England to Catholicism. She married her cousin, but thankfully died before having any children.

Mary I

Also called the commonwealth or interregnum

Cromwell’s Protectorate

Required Russian nobles to shave their beards and wear western clothing; expanded Russia’s territory; boisterous and rowdy

Peter the Great

Prussian nobles

Junkers

Frederick II decided to use his father’s pretty soldiers to attack Maria Theresa of Austria.

War of the Austrian Succession

In return for serving the king in the army to gain status, Prussian nobles gained this.

Absolute control over the peasant serfs who lived on their lands.

Promoted by Germans in the 18th century as a more emotional way of experiencing heretofore boring religious experiences.

Pietism

I have appointed many of these officials which further centralized the French government.

Intendants

France simply must increase tariffs on imports; gain more colonies; reform the tax system; build more roads and canals; and, increase the size of its military.

Economic policies of Jean Baptiste Colbert

I can’t possibly allow this decree of my grandfather to stand I can’t possibly allow this decree of my grandfather to stand. All people in France must be Catholic.

Edict of Nantes

I believed my God made me king not this nonsense by Locke about God granting everyone liberties at birth.

Natural Rights

A powerful French regent, she and her advisor Cardinal Richelieu ruled France during Louis XIII minority.

Marie de’Medici

I am so sick and tired of all of the monopolies, government regulations, and other special privileges for certain groups.

Adam Smith

Oh this is great for England because of all the wealth, but it also enriched regular citizens, too.

Mercantilism

Lines blurred between rich and poor as all social classes afforded a variety of goods; greater privacy in the home

Changes to early consumer society

Old manufacturing method greatly damaged by the rise of the rural proletariat.

Guilds

Don’t look now, but it’s behind you pushing you to invest in local industries and gain maximum profit.

The invisible hand

Also called proto-industrialization, the domestic system, or the putting-out system, people worked here when no longer needed on farms.

Cottage Industry

The old way of planting your crops.

Open field system

England already had this because of all their sheep.

Enclosure

This term actually refers to Neolithic people figuring out how to farm rather than hunt and gather.

Agricultural Revolution

Yummy mashed, fried, baked, but never ever to be eaten raw.

Potato