The Absolute Monarchs

Ruled Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia.

• Frederick the Great

• Peter the Great

• Maria Theresa

• Ivan the Terrible

Built Versailles

• Louis XIV

• Peter the Great

• Frederick the Great

• Phillip II

Considered himself to be the Defender of Catholicism in Europe.

• Ivan the Terrible

• Phillip II

• Louis XIV

• Peter the Great

Ruled Spain, Portugal, and Spanish Netherlands

• Frederick the Great

• Peter the Great

• Louis XIV

• Philip II

Created Beard Tax

• Peter the Great

• Frederick the Great

• Ivan the Terrible

• Philip II

Ruled Russia.

• Frederick the Great

• Maria Theresa

• Philip II

• Peter the Great

All the nobility lived at this monarch's palace

• Maria Theresa

• Philip II

• Louis XIV

• Peter the Great

This monarch made universal education for boys and girls till 12 years of age mandatory (reading, writing, math).

• Frederick the Great

• Peter the Great

• Maria Theresa

• Philip II

This monarch ruled Prussia.

• Frederick the Great

• Peter the Great

• Ivan the Terrible

• Philip II

This Queen's daughter was beheaded.

• Mary Tudor

• Elizabeth I

• Catherine the Great

• Maria Theresa