The time period when monarchs ruled with total control and authority over everyone and everything is called the

• Age of Exploration

• Enlightenment

• Age of Absolutism

• Age of Revolutions

Which of the following was the justification for rule during the European Age of Absolutism?

• Mandate of Heaven

• Magna Carta

• Habeas Corpus

• Divine Right

Which of the following describes the time period when thinkers began using reason to examine new ways to order society?

• Age of Absolutism

• Age of Exploration

• The Renaissance

• The Enlightenment

Which of the following DID NOT support ideas of creating more democratic societies?

• John Locke

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Cesare Beccaria

• Thomas Hobbes

Which of the following believed that men were born with natural rights including the right to life, liberty, and property?

• Cesare Beccaria

• John Locke

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

Which of the following Enlightenment thinkers published the book Leviathan, and believed that humans were too self interested to have democracy?

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

"I am the State."--Louis XIV

This quote was said by

• an absolute monarch

• a constitutional monarch

• a member of the 3rd Estate in France

• a French Senator

One way, Shi Huagndi of the Qin Dynasty, Peter the Great of Russia, and Louis XIV of France are similar is that they all

• ruled with total authority and control of their empires

• allowed religious freedom

• encouraged freedom of speech and expression

• explored uses of democratic governments

This illustration best shows the conditions that contributed to which of the following historical events?

• The Renaissance

• The Enlightenment

• The Age of Exploration

• The French Revolution

Which of the following causes of revolution is this image showing?

• ineffective political rule

• unfair tax on tea and other goods

• inequities of the estate system

• ideas of the Enlightenment