Global Review #4 - Absolutism to Nationalism

Name the monarch who was the "Sun King" in France and built the Palace of Versailles.

• Akbar the Great
• Peter the Great
• Louis XIV
• Louis XVI

What term describes a European monarch's power as coming from God/heaven?

• Mandate of Heaven
• Divine Right

Name a monarch of Russia who westernized it?

• Louis XIV
• Peter the Great
• Ivan the Terrible
• Genghis Khan

What term means the planets revolve around the sun?

• heliocentric
• geocentric

Who was the first to prove the heliocentric theory?

• Galileo
• Coperincus
• Ptolemy
• Newton

Which person was put on trial by the Catholic Church for his findings?

• Copernicus
• Galileo
• Isaac Newton
• Ptolemy

What were John Locke's ideas of "life, liberty and property" called?

• Birth rights
• Given rights
• Human rights
• Natural rights

What Enlightenment writer believed in separation of powers and check/balances?

• John Locke
• Baron de Montequieu
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• Rousseau

What document limited the power of the monarch in Great Britain in the year 1215?

• English Constitution
• US Constitution
• Bill of Rights
• Magna Carta

Which estate was overtaxed to start the French Revolution?

• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• Fourth Estate