Chapter 17 Part I

Terms to Outline:

• serfdom
• new laws to restrict movement of serfs
• hereditary subjugation
• Bohemian Estates -- what happens to them in the Thirty Years' War
• robot
• Ferdinand III
• Suleiman the Magnificent
• Jannisaries
• Pragmatic Sanction
• Brandenburg
• Frederick William, the "Great Elector"
• Junkers
• Frederick William I

Questions to Consider:

• Why did serfdom decline in Western Europe and not in Eastern Europe?  What did the monarchy have to do with this?
• What was the status of Austria and Prussia after the Thirty Years' War?
• How do the Habsburgs move towards a more absolutist state after the Thirty Years' War?
• How did the Ottoman Turks and the Hungarians pose a threat to the Habsburgs and absolutism?
• What was the state of Brandenburg after the Thirty Years' War?  How does Frederick William, the "Great Elector" make the move towards absolutism in Prussia?
• How does Frederick William I later solidify absolutism in Prussia?