STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 18:
THE BALANCE OF POWER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE
TERMS, PEOPLE, AND EVENTS
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Great Northern War |
Treaty of Nystad |
Leopold I |
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Treaty of Utrecht |
Treaty of Passarowitz |
Peter the Great |
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poll tax |
Senate |
czar |
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Table of Ranks |
Catherine the Great |
Charles VI |
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Charter of the Nobility |
Pugachev's revolt |
Peter III |
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Joseph II |
Frederick William, the Great Elector |
Poltava |
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Frederick William I |
Frederick II (the Great) |
George I |
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Pragmatic Sanction |
Joseph II |
John Wilkes |
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Maria Theresa |
War of the Austrian Succession |
Diet |
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Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle |
Kunersdorf |
mixed government |
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partitions of Poland |
placemen |
Stamp Act |
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Whigs |
Tories |
Boston Tea Party |
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George III |
Sugar Act |
William and Mary |
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Seven Years' War |
Declaratory Act |
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Peace of Paris (1763) |
James III |
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KEY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS
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New France |
Mexico |
Estonia |
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Central America |
Charleston |
Galicia |
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Great Lakes |
Ohio River |
Duchy of Bar |
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Mississippi River |
Gulf of Mexico |
Dunkirk |
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Flanders |
Livonia |
Archangel |
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Philippines |
Silesia |
Stettin |
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Norway |
Flanders |
New Orleans |
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Lille |
St. Petersburg |
Pomerania |
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Potsdam |
Moravia |
Java Sea |
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Gulf of Finland |
Spice Islands |
Georgia |
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Brandenburg-Prussia |
Saint Lawrence River |
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New France |
Riga |
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Magdeburg |
Minorca |
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Kazan |
Maine |
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Ural Mountains |
Louisiana |
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QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
1. Peter
the Great's death inaugurated a period in Russia known as "the
emancipation of the nobility." Why
is it called that? How did the status
of Russia’s nobles change from Peter's reign to that of Catherine the
Great?
2. Why
was Catherine the Great considered "great"? Which of the era’s “great” monarchs do you think was
greatest—Peter, Frederick II or Catherine II?
Why?
3. Consider
the approaches to government taken by Louis XIV and Frederick the Great. Did the two monarchs differ fundamentally in
their visions for their realms and their techniques of rule? If so, how?
4. What
changes affected peasant life in eastern Europe in the eighteenth century? How did the life of Russian peasants differ
from that of Austrian peasants in 1700?
In 1790? In what ways was
peasant life more or less unchanged?
5. What were the “mixed constitution” and the “King-in-Parliament”? How does the British Constitution succeed in the age of absolute monarchs?
6. What
role did alliances play in creating and maintaining a European balance of
power?