Chapter 21 Test Review

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

• Divine Right

• Versailles

• Absolutism

• Czar

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

• Divine Right

• Absolutism

• Versailles

• Renaissance

Known as the leader of Russia

• Czar

• Versailles

• Absolutism

• Divine Right

Check ALL that fall under what Absolute rulers would focus on

• Military Build Up

• Human Rights

• Business incentives

• Building projects

Laws made to limit the power of a ruler

• Petition of Rights

• Glorious Revolution

• Constitutional Monarchy

• English Bill of Rights

Known for putting England in debt by his own personal shopping and wife's expenses

• Charles I

• James I

• William & Mary

• Charles II

The English Bill of Rights was meant to..

• protect the rights of a leader so they can't be beheaded

• protect the rights of the parliament from the King or Queen

• protect the rights of the people from the King or Queen

• protect the rights of the people and the King but not a Queen

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 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

What body in England placed limits on the powers of the monarchs?

• The Church
• Parliament
• Universities
• Foreign governments