Across
- 5. Name of religious wars between the Catholic majority and French Protestants which tore France apart
- 6. Many of these people were rich nobles
- 7. The name of people whos hair was cut close around their head
- 10. This triggered the greatest political revolution in English history
- 12. A new protestant German speaking power in the north
- 13. A government in which the ruling power belongs to a few people
- 15. Reduction in a city, or states population
- 16. Wrote Europeans first modern novel
- 17. Ruler of the Hapsburg empire
- 18. He imprisoned his foes without trial and squeezed the nation for money
- 19. She consulted and controlled the Parliament when she gained the throne
- 21. The great symbol of Peter's desire to forge a modern, western oriented russian nation
- 22. A port that was not frozen in the winter
- 23. The empire that Charles I became heir to that included the German states of the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Netherlands
- 24. The exhausted combatants accepted a series of treaties.
Down
- 1. The period where powerful dynasties emerged
- 2. Famous master at Spanish painting that's name means "The Greek"
- 3. Having unlimited authority over a state
- 4. He was the first stuart monarch to take the throne
- 8. The political system that rulers of some countries(Spain and France)used to have complete authority over the government and the lives of their people
- 9. He broke the Roman Catholic Church and he turned the Parliament to legalize his actions
- 11. His father was Alexander the Great and he was an Absolute Monarch
- 14. Soldiers for hire
- 20. Adoption of western ideas, technology and culture
