Chapter 21 Section 3: Enlightenment Absolutism and the Balan

1. It is a system in which rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while maintaining their full royal powers.

• o Intellectual movement

• o Enlightenment philosophers

• o Enlightenment absolutism

• o Scientific enlightenment

Identify the state. In the 18^th century although this was a small state, it had the fourth largest standing army after France and Russia

• o Austria

• o Prussia

• o France

• o Czechoslovakia

Identify the ruler. A Prussian ruler who rules from 1710 to 1786, was one of the best educated monarchs of his time

• o Joseph II

• o Empress Maria Theresa

• o Frederick William I

• o Frederick II

Identify the ruler. Ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796, was intelligent and considered the ideas of a new law code that would recognize the principle of equality to all.

• o Catherine II

• o Empress Maria Theresa

• o Frederick William I

• o Frederick II

Identify the ruler. Ruled Austria and who succeeded Empress Maria Theresa.

• o Catherine II

• o Joseph II

• o William II

• o Nicholas II

The year, a major war broke out over the succession of the Austrian throne.

• o 1840

• o 1740

• o 1640

• o 1746

Identify the person. The King of Prussia who took advantage of the confusion surrounding the succession of a woman to the throne by invading Austrian Silesia

• o Joseph II

• o Charles VI

• o Frederick II

• o Charles III

The year the European War ended

• o 1970

• o 1763

• o 1673

• o 1796

The war of Austrian succession was fought in _________ areas of the world.

• o three

• o four

• o two

• o five

By 1748, all parties were exhausted and agreed to the treaty of ______________________ that guaranteed the return of all occupied territories but Silesia to their original owners.

• o Treaty of Bonaparte

• o Treaty of Retreat

• o Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

• o Treaty of Austria Secession