Absolutism, Enlightenment Basics

What is an absolute monarch?

• A ruler with complete control of everything

• A ruler with some control of everything

• A ruler with limited control of everything

Peter the Great is considered an Absolute monarch.

• True

• False

Rulers used this to claim that God wanted them to have power over everything.

• Divine Right

• Monarchy

• Their wealth

• Their army

Life, liberty, and happiness are examples of......

• Limited power of royals

• Natural Rights

• Divine Rights

• Absolutism

What is the "Social Contract?"

• The belief that you can overthrow the government

• The belief that people give up certain rights to be protected by a government

• The belief that everyone owes and should pay taxes to the government

What does this map show?

• Philip II's Spanish Empire

• Louis XIV's wars against the Dutch

• The Expansion of Russia under Peter the Great

What is the name of the time period where new ideas and beliefs about Human Rights began to develop?

• Scientific Revolution

• Age of Absolutism

• The Enlightenment

• Age of Empires

As kings worked to establish absolute monarchies, they ended up destroying which political system that dominated Europe in the Middle ages

• Empire

• Feudalism

• Democracy

Absolutism means

• the real power in any state must be religious and exercised by the church.

• ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right.

• subordinate powers have an absolute right to advise the king on conducting the affairs of state.

• no matter how humble, male citizens have an absolute right to participate in politics.

The belief that people have the right to overthrow an unfair government is the ________________

• Consent of the Governed

• Social Contract

• Divine Right