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3. Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu capitalized on the religious struggle known as this, between Protestants and Catholics, fought mostly in Germany.
What was the Thirty Year’s War?

4. This conflict began in this country, which is the present day Czech Republic.
What was Bohemia?

5. He was was the Holy Roman Emperor, who sent his royal officials to convert the Protestants to Catholicism.
Who was Ferdinand II ?

6. This was the name given to the reception that the officials got when they were thrown from a castle window to plunge seventy feet into a moat full of sewage.
What was the Defenestration of Prague?

7. The Thirty Year’s War was settled by this Treaty in 1648, with France victorious and gaining the province of Alsace, and seriously weakening the Hapsburgs.
What was the Treaty of Westphalia?

8. These were at least two of the nations that Austria took control of or took parts of after 1648.
What were Bohemia, Hungary, Northern Italy and parts of Poland?

9. This was the agreement that Charles VI of Austria had with the rulers of Europe sign recognizing his daughter as the sole ruler of Austria.
What was the Pragmatic Sanction?

10. This was the eight year war fought between Prussia and Austria.
What was the War of the Austrian Succession?

11. This was the country that the ruler of Austria appealed to for help in the war against Prussia in 1740.
What was Hungary? ( The Magyar Nobles finally agreed to help Maria Theresa)

12. This was the Austrian royal family that ruled diverse lands and peoples in central Europe.
Who were the Hapsburgs – Marie Theresa and Francis Joseph the Peasant King?

13. This was the family of Prussia, who confiscated Catholic church lands and built an empire, which became the seed for the modern German state.
Who were the Hohenzollerns
( promiscuous, chickens, screaming)?

14. He was the Prussian ruler who organized Prussia like a military barracks with an efficient administration comprised of Prussian nobles loyal to the king.
Who was Frederick William I, ( Prussia is an army that possesses a state)?

15. He was the competent son, of Frederick William I, who would have rather played the flute, and tried to run off to England instead of leading Prussia.
Who was Frederick II or Frederick the Great?

16. Roving armies of soldiers for hire, who ravaged the German states during the Thirty Year’s War.
Who were mercenaries?

17. This is another name for the Prussian nobility.
Who were the Junkers ( Jumpin Jiminy It’s the Junkers)?

18. This is the Dynasty of Russia from 1613 and rules until 1917.
What was the Romanov Dynasty ( From Michael to Nicholas II )?

19. Two reasons Russia was isolated before Peter the Great.
What was a cold climate, bad roads, the Mongol invasions, different alphabet, different religion, no warm water access, etc.?

20. His goals for Russia were to westernize the country and bring Russia into the modern world and to obtain a warm water port for his country that was open and accessible year round.(He accomplished one and not the other)
Who was Peter I or Peter the Great?

21. She was the ruler of Russia who seized territory from Poland and obtained a warm water port off the Sea of Azov for Russia.
Who was Catherine the Great or
Catherine II?

22. This was the country that completely disappears in a series of divisions between Austria, Russia, and Prussia.
What was Poland?

23. This new Czar of Russia moved the capital to the west on the Gulf of Finland and named it this.
What Was Saint Petersburg or St. Petersburg?

24. These were the haughty landowning nobles of Russia who were controlled by Peter the Great.
Who were the boyars ( no pointy shoes, beards, or furry robes and hats)?

25. He was Danish explorer hired by Peter the Great to explore the eastern coast of Russia.
Who was Vitus Berring?

26. What was the Seven Year’s War?
This was the war that was fought on four continents, changed the alliance system in Europe, and was started by an incident in North America involving George Washington

27. The Holy Roman Emperor was chose by seven of these men who were German princes.
Who were the electors created by the Golden Bull issued in 1356?

28. This was rich mining area of Austria the Prussian monarch invaded and took from the Queen of Austria upon her taking the throne.
What was Silesia?