Age of Absolutism

What does Absolute Ruler mean?

• a ruler who is sure of their power

• someone who has to answer to a separate government body

• a ruler who is involved in all aspects of government and public life

• a ruler who is absolute

During the Age of Absolutism, European monarchs looked to

• Develop better relations with muslim rulers

• Encourage the growth of political farms

• Increase human rights for citizens

• Centralize political power in their nations

Who was Louis XIV?

• This man promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European

• This man believed that humans were naturally good and would not need a large government to rule over them.

• This man demonstrated absolutism by building Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility.

• 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.

The English Bill of Rights

• confirmed the king's right to raise standing armies without parliamentary consent.

• resolved all of England's seventeenth-century religious questions.

• created a constitutional monarchy.

• reaffirmed the divine-right theory of kingship while limiting the king's power.

The economic theory based on a country's ability to export more goods than import which contributed to the rise of absolutism was

• laissez faire economics.

• capitalism.

• mercantilism.

• socialism.

The primary goal of most of Europe's absolute monarchs was to

• support political freedom for the new middle classes

• prevent contact with areas beyond Europe's borders

• centralize their political control over their nations

• maintain peaceful relations with neighboring nations

The theory justifying a monarch's rule by God's authority is called

• laissez-faire

• predestination

• totalitarianism

• divine right

Which of these events most directly led to the signing of the English Bill of Rights?

• English Civil War

• Thirty Years War

• Glorious Revolution

• Defeat of Spanish Armada

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

• The Church

• Parliament

• Universities

• Foreign governments

Spanish King who made several mistakes that led to the downfall of Spain.

• Phillip II

• Louis XIV

• Scollo I

• Charles I