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Russian czarina who reigned with an enlightened blend of absolutism, elegance, and  conquest as she promoted education and economic development by winning territorial access to the Black Sea (Ukraine):

Powerful member of the Habsburg Dynasty who inherited land across Europe; served as Holy Roman Emperor and pillaged Rome during a military campaign against the French Valois king Francis I:

Queen Elizabeth I has long been revered for each of the following accomplishments EXCEPT…

Ideology advocated by the nobility in support of the tradition and order of the status quo (restored by the Congress of Vienna)

Radical journalist and voice of the Jacobins during the French Revolution; murdered in his bathtub by a Girondin woman…Charlotte Corday:

Royal assertion that monarchs ruled on behalf of God and His holy order for the benefit of society:

The French Revolution began with the ____________ by angry mobs in Paris. The French celebrate this date, July 14th, as their independence day.

Royal decree issued by King Henry IV of France which granted religious, political, and social toleration to the Huguenots:

Napoleon’s economic policy designed to destroy Britain’s economy by imposing an embargo on British goods was called the…

Henry the Navigator laid the foundation for the Age of Discovery because…