Chapter 5- Absolute Monarchs in Europe

A royal ruler has total control over the people based on divine right

• Absolutism

• Habeas Corpus

• Czar

• Divine Right

The power to rule is granted by God and cannot be questioned.

• Absolutism

• Hebeas Corpus

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Divine Right

Extravagant royal home of Louis XIV that emphasized the use of wealth

• Peace of Westpahlia

• Palace of Versailles

• Palace of Louis

• Peace of Right

The treaty that ended the Thirty Years War

• Consitution

• Peace of Westphalia

• Peace of Versailles

• Divine Right

The royal ruler of Russia means “Caesar”

• Divine Right

• English Civil War

• Czar

• Habeas Corpus

British internal conflict, Roundheads vs. Cavaliers over royal rule

• Seven Years War

• Thirty Years War

• English Civil War

• Revolutionary War

Means in Latin “to have the body,” guaranteed to parliament to prevent unjust imprisonment

• Divine Right

• Czar

• Habeas Corpus

• Versailles

A government where a royal ruler is bound to share power with an elected government.

• Absolutism

• Limited Monarchy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Divine Right

This was a conflict over religion and territory and for the power among European ruling families.

• Seven Years War

• Thirty Years War

• English Civil War

• Battle of Westphalia

A conflict where Frederick the Great attacked Saxony, an Austrian ally. Soon every great European power was involved in the conflict.

• Seven Years War

• Thirty Years War

• English Civil War

• Revolutionary War