History 16.4

Seven leading German princes who chose the Holy Roman Emperor

The Catholic Hapsburg King of Bohemia, sought to supress Protestants and to assert royal power over nobles

Soldiers for hire, burned villages, destroyed crops, and killed without mercy

Reduction of the number of people in an area

A series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years' War

The daughter of Charles VI who was intelligent and capable of succeeding her father

Series of wars in which various European nations competed for power in Central Europe after the death of Hapsburg emperor Charles VI

A strong military state in central Europe that emerged in the late 1600s

A Prussian ruler who came to power upon the death of his father in 1713

Preferred playing the flute and writing poetry instead running an empire