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

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

Created to give more rights to the people of England

• Glorious Revolution

• Petition of Rights

• English Bill of Rights

• Constitutional Monarchy

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

Known as the leader of Russia

• Czar

• Versailles

• Absolutism

• Divine Right

Mandate of Heaven is to China, as ________________________ is to Europe

• Absolutism

• Constitutional Monarchs

• Versailles

• Divine Right

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.