Across
- 3. second Prussian king who transformed his country into a prosperous state.
- 7. ruler with total authority over government and people
- 8. reduction in the number of people in an area
- 9. to gradually destroy
- 12. “I am the state”
- 13. nobles competed to hold the royal washbasin or hand the king his shoes
- 17. Louis XIII's chief minister
- 19. German princes choosing Holy Roman emperor
- 20. what a burdon, hard to manage
- 23. landowning noble in Russia under the tsars
- 25. Central European empire included Holy Roman Empire and Netherlands
- 27. adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture
- 28. last name of Louis XIV's finance minister
- 29. wife and mother of Holy Roman emperors
- 31. expanded bureaucracy and reduced influence of nobles
- 32. granted Huguenots religious toleration and other freedoms
- 33. a division into pieces
- 34. port that is free of ice year round
- 35. having unlimited power
Down
- 1. former hunting lodge turned palace
- 2. series of wars in Central Europe after the death Charles VI
- 4. you cannot let one country or alliance grow stronger than another
- 5. this Holy Roman Emperor split up his empire
- 6. wrote Europe’s first modern novel
- 10. royal officials that carried out policies in the provinces
- 11. the Greek painter that liked long faces
- 14. tsar of Russia; great statesmen, organizer, and reformer.
- 15. German-born empress of Russia; led it to become part of the political and cultural life of Europe.
- 16. soldier serving in a foreign country for pay
- 18. French protestants
- 21. part of Europe ruled by the Hohenzollern dynasty
- 22. his fleet sank invading England
- 24. fleet of ships
- 26. treaties that ended Thirty Years’ War
- 30. on the throne because of God