Absolutism

A monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God.

• Divine Right

• Versailles

• Absolutism

• Czar

Known as the Sun King and the ruler of France

• King James II

• King Phillip

• Louis XIV

• Louis XXI

A bloodless overthrow of the England ruler King James II

• Glorious Revolution

• French Revolution

• Constitutional Monarchy

• English Bill of Rights

The principal royal residence of France from 1682 under Louis XIV until the start of the French Revolution in 1789 under Louis XVI

• Absolutism

• Versailles

• Divine Right

• Czar

a political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers

• Divine Right

• Absolutism

• Versailles

• Renaissance

Rulers regulated religious and social life

Size of courts increase

Bureaucracies to control economics

Stop the spread of ideas

These are all...

• Effects of Absolutism

• Causes of Absolutism

• Characteristics of Absolutism

During the Age of Absolutism, European monarchs looked to

• Develop better relations with muslim rulers

• Centralize political power in their nations

• Encourage the growth of political farms

• Increase human rights for citizens

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.

In England, the Magna Carta, Glorious Revolution, and English Bill of Rights all led to the development of

• a dictatorship
• an absolute monarchy
• a theocracy
• a limited monarchy

One way in which the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment were similar is that they

• rejected renaissance individualism
• encouraged the spread of new ideas
• led to the Protestant Reformation
• strengthened traditional institutions