Chapter 18 - The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change

eighteenth century

In the ________, France experienced an economic revival as the Enlightenment gained strength.

Prussia

The war was fought not only in Europe, where ________ seized Silesia and France occupied the Austrian Netherlands, but in the East, where France took place in Chennai in India from the British, and in North America, where the British captured the French fortress of Louisbourg at the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River.

Glorious Revolution

The success of the ________ in England had prevented absolutism without clearly inaugurating constitutional monarchy.

Portugal

________ had been experiencing a decline since the 16th century.

Enlightenment thought

________ had some impact on the political development of European states in the eighteenth century.

Poland

________ did not have a monarchy, but a king elected by nobles.

Austrian Empire

The ________ had become one of the great European states by the beginning of the eighteenth century.

eighteenth century British political system

The ________ was characterized by a sharing of power between the king and Parliament, with Parliament gradually gaining the upper hand.

peace treaty of Aix la Chapelle

The ________ was signed, and all occupied territories except Silesia to their original owners.

Vienna

The city of ________, the center of the Habsburg monarchy, was filled with magnificent palaces and churches built in the Baroque style and became the music capital of Europe.

population growth

Rapid ________, expansion in banking and trade, and agriculture revolution: the stirrings of industrialization and an increase in worldwide trade and consumption characterized the economic patterns of the 28th century.

Frederick William

________ I and Frederick II, two kinds of Prussia, developed the two major institutions- the army and the bureaucracy- that were the backbone of Prussia.

Frederick William

________ served as a chief administrative agent of the central government, supervising military, police, economic, and financial affairs.