WH.5 - Age of Absolutism

Most prominent mountain chain in Europe --

• Himalayas

• Rocky Mountains

• Alps

• Appalachian

Body of water connecting EAST Europe to the Atlantic Ocean --

• Straight of Megellan

• Black Sea

• Red Sea

• English Channel

Land mass containing such countries as Croatia, Serbia, Romania --

• Balken

• Ural

• Black

• Mediterranean

Portugal and Spain make up the ---

• Iberian Peninsula

• Balkan Peninsula

• Ural Mountain Range

• Mediterranean Basin

Absolute Monarchs wanted total control of their citizen's lives.

• True

• False

French king who built the Palace at Versailles --

• Louis XIV

• Louis XVI

• Cardinal Richelieu

• Louis XV

Family who ruled the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and the land holdings in North and South America --

• Hapsburgs

• French Monarchy

• King John II

• Peter the Great

Period of time where human progress was possible through the application of scientific knowledge and reason --

• Enlightement

• Age of Exploration

• Renaissance

• Scientific Revolution

Guy who wrote Leviathan --

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

Which of the following Enlightenment thinkers was NOT French ?

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes