Absolutism, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment

What is an absolute monarch?

• lack of government all together

• a king or queen who has complete control over a country

• a monarchy that also has a congress or parliament

• a small group of people in control

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, absolutism was a political theory that:

• encouraged rulers to turn over control of their governments to Parliament

• allowed rulers to govern by divine right and according to their own will

• discouraged military and economic competition among Europe states

• allowed countries, regardless of their form of government, to assume authority over its citizens

Louis XIV used the palace of Versailles to:

• create a touring art exhibitions

• withdraw from public life and spend time with friends and family

• demonstrate the grandeur of his rule and to control the French nobility

• create a place that all french people would feel comfortable visting

_____was forced labor that required peasants to work for a month out of the year on roads or other public works projects.

• prise de contrôle par le gouvernement

• des examens

• bon gouvernement

• corvee

The Enlightenment is also known as the ______________

• Age of Exploration
• Age of Reason
• Renaissance
• Scientific Revolution

A common theme among Enlightenment thinkers was

• there was not a common theme among the enlightenment thinkers
• faith in traditional religious beliefs.
• a belief in the inherent goodness of humanity.
• support for democratic forms of government.

Believed that the government and religion should be separate bodies to prevent conflict.

• Montesquieu

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Voltaire

Thomas Hobbes wrote this book about the structure of society and governments.

• Santa Maria
• Leviathan
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Carterican

Argued that the natural state of mankind is cruel and evil, so they needed a government to keep them “in check.”

• Voltaire
• Montesquieu
• Hobbes
• Locke

Mary Wollstonecraft fought for which of the following causes?

• American independence
• Laissez-Faire economics
• Rights for minorities
• Rights for women