Absolutism/ Enlightenment/ Scientific Revolution

The belief that power was granted by god.

• Divine Right
• Declaration of Right
• Dying Right
• Dead Right

He called himself the Sun King.

• Louis XIII
• Henri IV
• Henry of Navarre
• Louis XIV

Peter the Great moved the capital city of Russia from Moscow to St. Petersburg to:

• Be closer to Western Europe in order to open up trade through the Baltic Sea
• Move away from the famine and plague that killed thousands
• Move away from invading Mongols and other east Asian invaders
• Be closer to the great iron reserves of northern Russia

Which monarch was King of Spain?

• Henry VIII
• Philip II
• Peter the Great
• Louis IVX

What country defeated the Spanish Armada?

• France
• Russia
• German States
• England

Who was crowned as the rulers of England in the Glorious Revolution?

• William and Mary
• James II
• Phillip and Mary
• Louis and Marie

Who became leader of England directly after the English Civil War?

• William and Mary
• Oliver Cromwell
• Charles II
• James I

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

The Scientific Revolution can best be described as:

• A period when scientists embraced the teachings of the Church
• The time when the Catholic Church empathized most with scientists 
• period when scientists began to question the old teachings of the Church
•  Scientific property invented by astrophysicists to explain the rotation of the Earth

Because he feared the Church, what Polish astronomer waited to publish his heliocentric theory until he was near death?

• Johannes Kepler
• Nicolaus Copernicus 
• Isaac Newton 
• Francis Bacon