The Age of Absolution

Type of Government in which a constitution or legislative body limits the monarch's powers.

Glorious Revolution created this.

Ensured the superiority of Parliament over the monarch.

Required the monarch to summon Parliament regularly and gave the House of Commons the "poer of the purse," or control over spending.

Puritan member of the lesser gentry, proved himself to be a skilled general.

Organized a "New Model Army" for Parliament, made up of the offciers selected for skill rather than social class, into a disiplined fighting force.

Group of dissenters who sought to "purify" the church of Catholic practices.

Called for simpler services and a more Democratic church without bishops.

Protestants who differed with the Church of England.

James I clashed with them.

Act of making the monarch head of the Church of England

Henry VIII claimed it.

Treaty that forbid the combination of the Spanish && French crowns.

Signed by Philip V

Royal hunting lodge that was turned into an immense palace.

Louis XIV spared no expense and made it the most magnificent building in Europe.

Louis's brilliant finance minister.

Imposed mercantilist policies to bolster the economy; had new lands cleared for farming && encouraged mining and other basic industries

Royal officials who: collected taxes, recruited soldiers, and carried out his policies in the provinces.

Louis XIV expanded the bureacuracy by appointing them

Medieval council made up of representatives of all French social classes

Due to Louis XIV they did not meet between 1614-1789

A Catholic Holiday
(August 24)

On this day in 1572 3k Huguenots were slaughtered by the order of Catholic royals

Granted the Huguenots religious toleration and other freedoms

Henry IV issued it.

French Protestants

On St. Bartholomew's Day 3,000 Huguenots were slaughetered by Catholic royals.

"Golden Century"
Century from 1550-1650 in which their was a brilliance && growth in the Arts and Literature, during this time Philip II also founded academies of science and mathematics.

A ruler with complete authority over the government and lives of the people.

A Large fleet of ships

Philip II used one to carry a Spanish invasion force to Englad (Failure).

Believed that his Authority to rule came directly
from God.

Philip II (Claimed it)