Western Civilization Questions

Western Europe: serfdom was basically overEastern Europe: peasants toiled as serfs and landowners, but didn't own any land in their own right

Parliament and Cromwell were defeated and they realized they needed help/a change (New Model Army)

Eastern Europe: rulers worked to build strong absolutist state, building on social and economic foundation that benefited serfdom and the nobility (they depended on nobility)Western Europe wanted to weaken/separate from the nobility and serfdom

He persuaded Junkers to accept taxation without consent to find an army, and gave them privileges, such as authority over the serfs

Ivan the Terrible attacked and destroyed this rival city, killing or enslaving the people

Triennial Act (limited the power of the monarch and made government without Parliament impossible)

He executed members of leading boyar families and replaced them with a new service nobility

To reform by purifying the Anglican Church of Roman Catholic elements

members of society placing themselves under the absolute rule of the sovereign (written in treatise of Leviathan)

To unity his three provinces of Bradenburg, Prussia, and territories along the Rhine, and also enlarge his holdings

Prophets stop corruption which left no room for

From 750 Bc to death of Alexander the Great (323) Greece consisted of

Battle of marathon Persian had this amount of soldiers and sailors

Peloponessian war led to the downfall of

Solon foundation and source of law was

Who led Athens to become cultural hub of Greece?

What king was Israel at its highest point

King Philip II conquered Greece at battle of

The battle where 300 Spartans attempted to hold off Persian army

Homer wrote about warriors who lived during