Across
- 6. What was Louis XIV's catch phrase?-
- 8. A monarch who expanded Spanish influence, strengthened the Catholic church, and made his own power absolute.
- 11. Who was the king's finance minister
- 15. Religious wars between the Catholic majority and French peasants. This tore France apart.
- 16. Literature Spains_____ age, Miguel de Cervantes
- 18. To end English attacks and subdue the Dutch, Philip prepared a huge ______, or fleet, to carry a Spanish invasion of England.
- 22. An isolated, somber palace outside Madrid that reflected the king's character.
- 23. Royal officials administered_______, improved roads, built bridges, and revived agriculture.
Down
- 1. ____ of ____ In Spain, French rulers were determined to impose their religion in the late 1500s.
- 2. This happened against the Inquisition in the 1560s.
- 3. In the early 1600s, this French bishop defended the theory of divine right and royal absolutism
- 4. This is what happened to the Spanish Empire after the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
- 5. their authority to rule came directly from god
- 7. - This empire included the German states of the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Netherlands.
- 9. Who was the leader who ruled over France from 1643 to 1715
- 10. Lope de Vega, one of Spain’s most famous figures, because he did lots of this.
- 12. a form of government in which a ruler has complete authority over the government and the lives of the people he or she governs.
- 13. He became the ruler of both the Spanish and Habsburg empires in the early 1500s
- 14. Each day began in the king's bedroom with a ritual known as
- 17. In the countryside near Paris, Lewis XIV turned a royal hunting lodge into the immense Palace of
- 19. Cervantes wrote Europe’s first modern_______.
- 20. Henry IV was killed by an assassin in 1610, his nine-year-old son, Louis XIII, became ____ afterwards.
- 21. This person was one of the famous painters in this era. Known for making haunting religious pictures and striking portraits of Spanish nobles.
- 22. of Nantes in 1598.
