Age of Absolutism Quizizz

The reading technique that asks students to survey, develop questions, and then read, recite and review a reading is called.

• The three reads protocol

• The three R's reading protocol

• The close reading protocol

• The SQ3R reading protocol

Answer explanation

The answer is the SQ3R reading protocol. This protocol can be shortened to the Three R's Protocol but the most effective close reading approach includes the survey and questioning reads.

The time period 1550-1800 is generally referred to as this age?

• The Age of Enlightenment

• The Age of Reason

• The Columbian Exchange

• The Age of Absolutism

Answer explanation

Even though during this time period there are smaller periods that are referred to as "Age of Enlightenment" and "Age of Reason" this larger time period is simply called the "Age of Absolutism" because in Europe there are quite a few Absolute Monarchs who control and steward their country during that time.

Which of the following are elements of Absolutism based on the ideology that helped support its reality?

​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)  

• Mercantilism

• Strong Standing Army

• Strong Central Govt

• Strong Clergy and Aristocracy

Answer explanation

In the second paragraph of the our reading on Absolutism and the rise of Science and Enlightenment it outlines these three elements. 1. A strong central government that no one strong group within the country can undermine (like the clergy or aristocracy), 2. A strong military to control all the people with the country and deal with war when the country needed to protect or expand its colonial possessions, and 3. use of the economic system called Mercantilism.

TRUE or FALSE - Of the four technologies that made Absolutism possible due to the Columbian Exchange more than half were from the so called "Western" World?

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

The Compass was developed in China, The Astrolabe in Greece and the art of Cartography that made sea voyages possible - that was developed in Egypt. Only the Sextant, an improvement over the Astrolabe, was invented in the Netherlands. Today we place Egypt into the "western world" but in the time we're studying it would not have been seen as such.

The increase in international and intercontinental trade that occurred from the 11th century to today is often called this:

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• The Commercial Revolution

• The Columbian Exchange

• Mercantile Exchange

• The Age of Explorations

Answer explanation

The Commercial Revolution was an economic, social, and political revolution that affected cities, regions, and states throughout Europe. It began in the 12th century and accelerated into the 20th century. Without this development many historians argue that modern day capitalism would not have occurred.

Which of the following were historical consequences of the development of the Columbian exchange and the commercial revolution that it helped accelerate? (There may be more than one right answer given what you learned from the reading)

• Chattel Slavery (African slavery used on cash crop plantations)

• The development of Mercantilism

• The development of Capitalism

• Funding for Militarization and empowerment of Absolutists.

Answer explanation

The reading makes it very clear that the Columbian Exchange helped accelerate the Commercial Revolution. This acceleration made a brutal form of black enslavement, both mercantilism and capitalism and the militarization of both African and European governments possible in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although Europe was able to counter this militarization in the 19th and 20th centuries - Africa and other areas impacted by this historical consequence are still feeling the effects of intergenerational trauma.

Are you starting to see a historical narrative emerge with this information? Was Absolutism an OLD idea based on political and social systems that had been around for a while, or was it something NEW emerging because of events that occurred in the Atlantic world in the century before its development? Remember we call the 17th and 18th centuries the "Age of Absolutism" Please answer and explain your thinking.

Answer explanation

Hi class - I hope that you said that your starting to see something historians call "Change over time" or a "Turning Point" in history. The Age of Absolutism developed as a response to the challenges created by the Commercial Revolution and the Columbian Exchange that helped accelerate it. Absolutism was not something old - it was something new. Even though absolutists will use divine right as the reason why they have sovereignty (the right to rule) - this argument would not have been made in the early centuries in Europe. Only the pope and his clergy would have been able to determine who had the right to rule - not the king or his court. In addition - the Absolutist ideology that was becoming accepted in much of Europe was also spreading to places in North and South America and Africa. It's important that we recognize this because it will help us unpack the terrible impacts of this history on places in Africa and the rest of the "non-western" world in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

This Polish monk and mathematician (remember - many early scientists worked in monasteries) kick started the "Rise of the West" narrative's idea we refer to as The Scientific Revolution.

Answer explanation

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a Polish mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it. Disturbed by the failure of Ptolemy’s geocentric model of the universe to follow Aristotle’s requirement for the uniform circular motion of all celestial bodies and determined to eliminate Ptolemy’s equant, an imaginary point around which the bodies seemed to follow that requirement, Copernicus decided that he could achieve his goal only through a heliocentric model. He thereby created a concept of a universe in which the distances of the planets from the sun bore a direct relationship to the size of their orbits. At the time Copernicus’s heliocentric idea was very controversial; nevertheless, it was the start of a change in the way the world was viewed, and Copernicus came to be seen as the initiator of the Scientific Revolution.

The first academy of science was started by Galileo in ​ (a)   in 1603 and was followed quite a while longer by the Academy of Science in ​ (b)   in 1660. The Royal Academy was the final scientific group to pursue the idealized goals set out by Francis Bacon in his famous work "Salomon's House" in 1627, which was centered in ​ (c)  

• Rome
• Paris
• London

Answer explanation

One of the most important historical understandings students of this time period need to understand is the impact Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes had on the development of our "Rise of the West" narrative. They both advocated for the development of communities of scientific thinkers (who they called "Natural Philosophers" back then). The first academy that emerged in Paris France pushed most of the scientific and Enlightened thinking of the 18th century. The Royal Academy of London would become influential toward the end of the 18th century and lead scientific inquiry throughout the 19th century.

What was the most important difference between the Academy of Science in Paris and the London Academy of Science?

• The London Academy paid their scientists while the Academy in Paris did not.

• The London Academy used the scientific method while the Paris Academy did not.

• The London Academy had less freedom to innovate than the Academy in Paris.

• The London Academy did not pay their scientists while the Academy in Paris did.

Answer explanation

It's important to note that the French Government (the absolutists) were committed to funding science while the English Government was not. This fact is a point of distinction that is often discussed by political & economic theorists. The question arises - is it better to invest in scientific thinking or not? Both academies were influential but because the industrial revolution occurs first in England - many thinkers in today's world feel that the "Laissez-Faire" approach (French for hands off) is superior and many do not of course.