Absolutism

What does Absolute Ruler mean?

• a ruler who is sure of their power
• A ruler who is involved in all aspects of government and public life
• someone who has to answer to a separate government body
• a ruler who is absolute

What is divine right?

• The right to rule was given to the monarch by God
• a Birth right
• soldiers for hire
• a monarch for hire

Who was Louis XIV?

• This man promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European

• This man demonstrated absolutism by building Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility

• This man believed that humans were naturally good and would not need a large government to rule over them.

• This man did not believe that the average person was intelligent enough to participate in government, which led him to believe that an enlightened monarchy was best.

Who was Peter the Great?

• This man promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European

• This man demonstrated absolutism by building the city Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility

• This man didn't believe that the average person was intelligent enough to participate in government, which led him to believe that enlightened monarchy was best

• This man thought that humans were naturally greedy and chaotic and would need a large government to control them

Louis XIV built this massive, ornate palace -- largely funded by the taxpayers of his country.

• Windsor Castle

• Versailles

• St. Petersburg

• Fontainebleau

He introduced newspapers, shaved beards, and encouraged western fashion to Russia.

• Louis the XIV

• Peter the Great

• Jesus Christ

• Mohammad

He took power from the nobles and church officials 

• Louis the XIV
• Peter the Great
• Both 

The English Bill of Rights

• created a constitutional monarchy.

• resolved all of England's seventeenth-century religious questions.

• reaffirmed the divine-right theory of kingship while limiting the king's power.

• confirmed the king's right to raise standing armies without parliamentary consent.

The economic theory based on a country's ability to export more goods than import which contributed to the rise of absolutism was

• capitalism.

• laissez faire economics.

• mercantilism.

• socialism.

Who was Louis XIII's chief minister?  He strengthened the monarchy's power.

• Cardinal Richelieu
• Cardinal Mazarin
• Louis La Vau
• Mary Tudor

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