| Louis XIV's finance minister. |
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| The belief in minimal government. |
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| These were issued by the French
King and acted as warrants of arrest without charge. |
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| The French nobility who had been
given titles because of their services as good judges or competent civil administrators. |
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| Corrupt districts where property
was bought up by a rich and powerful aristocratic family who "owned" a seat in
Parliament. |
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| Under the leadership of Robespierre, they
instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. |
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| A solemn decree, written by Charles
VI, which directed that all the Hapsburg lands would pass to his daughter, Maria Theresa. |
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| He was Henry IV of France's finance
minister. |
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| Peter the Great's modernization
policy. |
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| These thinkers believed that there
were universal laws in all aspects of life, not only in science. |
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| French government officials
appointed from the middle class who owed their total allegiance to the king, and not to
the local aristocracy. |
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| The ruling family of Prussia. |
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| They were used as collateral for
French paper money in 1789. |
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| This document made Catholic clergy
in France become paid government officials elected by the French people. |
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| The Prussian nobility. |
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| He wrote The Wealth of Nations
in which he said that the economy of a nation should be run by the "invisible
hand" of competition rather than by a government-controlled economy. |
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| The rebellion of the French
nobility during the early years of Louis XIV's reign. |
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| This political group in early
revolutionary France wanted a middle-class Republic similar to that in the United States. |
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| The battle in which the Russians
beat the Swedes and ended Swedish domination of the Baltic region. |
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| The primary governing body in
France during Robespierre's reign. |
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| The descendents of the French
feudal aristocracy. |
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| Charles I of England aroused the
wealthy against him by collecting this special tax on inland inhabitants as well as from
people living along the English coast. |
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| The French city-workers, known for
their long, puffy trousers. |
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| The conservative backlash after the
Reign of Terror. |
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| A 33-volume 18c compendium of scientific,
technical, and historical knowledge. |
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