12.1 - Absolute Monarchy in Spain and France

Read the following quote from Bishop Jacques Bossuet. 
"The prince (king) is not regarded as a private person; he is a public personage, all the state is in him; the will of all the people is included in his. As all perfection and all strength are united in God, so all the power of individuals is united in (his) person."
According to Bossuet, what is the role of the king?

• to carry out the will of the people
• to listen to the opinions of his subjects
• to rule with complete authority over his subjects
  
• to unite with his subjects in their quest for God

How did Charles V and Philip II expand the Spanish state?

• They supported Protestant rebels in the Netherlands.
• They fought wars and tried to expand Catholicism.
• They united separate Spanish kingdoms into a unified state.
• They carried on a successful war against Britain.

How did Henry IV help reunite France after the Wars of Religion?

• He converted to Catholicism, but granted rights to the Huguenots.
• He revoked the Edict of Nantes.
• He had the Huguenots expelled from France.
• He built a new royal palace at Versailles.

Which of the following was one of the ways Louis XIV increased his power as an absolute monarch?

• He brought nobles under his control.
• He encouraged religious freedom.
• He restricted government jobs to the aristocracy.
• He fought a series of successful wars across Europe.
  

Both the French "splendid century" and the Spanish "golden century" were marked by

• a renewed emphasis on religious art.
  
• the emergence of opera and ballet.
  
• royal patronage of the arts.
• the rise of the novel as a form of literature.