Absolutism in France

Use the picture to answer the question. The palace of Versailles was build to show ?

• power of man over nature.

• ascension of Romanticism over reason.

• might of king and country.

• power of king over the nobility.

Louis XIV success as a Monarch is because (select all that apply)

• hand picked his ministers based on education and talent

• empowered the middle class

• reduced the power of the nobility

• established an elected Parlement of the common people

The belief that Monarchs should rule absolutely as a power granted by god is known as?

• Divine Right

• Declaration of Rights

• constitutional monarchy

• dictatorship

The Thirty Years' War became primarily a political conflict over __________ but result in a dynastic struggle between the Bourbons and Hapsburg over influence in the Holy Roman Empire.

• religion

• territorial expansion of Prussia

• trade routes

• selection over the next Emperor

Huguenots are

• French Calvinist

• German Lutherans

• French Catholics

• Spanish Catholics

Catholicism was recognized as the official religion of France but limited toleration was extended to Calvinists by the?

• Edict of Nantes

• Peace of Westphalia

• St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

• Treaty of Tordesilla

Jean Baptist Colbert economic policy of Mercantilism is

• when the government intervenes in the economy to increase the nations wealth at any means necessary.

• an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit

• the organization of the economy mainly on agriculture through division of land and profit by the nobility and monarchs

• a political and economic system where the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community