Absolutism
divine right
Peace of Westphalia
Frederick William the Great Elector
Brandenburg-Prussia
General War Commissariat
Louis XIV
Versailles
Dutch Republic
James I
Stuart
Bourbon
Habsburg
Sun King
Thirty Years' War
Peter the Great
Baroque
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Rembrandt van Rijn
witchcraft hysteria
tsar
Cardinal Richelieu
English Bill of Rights
constitutional monarchy
Holy Roman Empire
John Locke
social contract
"Glorious Revolution" of 1688
James II
William of Orange
Thomas Hobbes
mankind was animalistic
Russian women
Parliament
serfs
boyars
Lope de Vega
"last of the religious wars"