Ancien Regime

Which political system is characteristic of the Ancien Regime?

• Democratic Republic

• Republic

• Absolute monarchy

• Parliamentary monarchy

What type of society did the Ancien Regime have?

• Class-based

• Egalitarian

• Communism

• Estate-based

What philosophical movement criticised the Ancien Regime?

• Humanism

• Enlightenment

• Empiricism

• Rationalism

Who were John Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau?

• Economists

• Politicians

• Artists

• Philosophers

Absolute monarchs ruled on basis of

• popular sovereingnity

• divine right

• elective

• the power of the Parliament

The English civil war ended with the ........... execution

• Charles I

• Philip

• Louise XVI

• William

The British Glorious Revolution...

• was in 1688 and established a Parliamentary monarchy

• was in 1788 and established a Parliamentary monarchy

• was in 1688 and established a Republic

• was in 1788 and established a Republic

Agriculture in the Old Regime... (multiple option)

• was characterised by the subsistence farming

• land cannot be separated

• low productivity and scarce technological improvements

• was the basis of the ecomomy

Enligthened philosophers... (multiple options)

• defended the spread of the education

• criticized the separation of powers

• defended the human rights

• put emphasis on experimentation and observation

Some European monarchs accepted the Enlightenment and used its principles to introduce reforms maintaining their absolute power.

• Constitutional monarchies

• Parliamentary monarchies

• Enlightened despotism

• none of them