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- 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