Age of absolutism & Enlightenment

natural law

• •Rules discoverable by reason

• •The rights belonging to all people at birth, including the right to life, liberty, and property

• •an economic system allowing business to operate with little or no government interference

• •the belief that a ruler’s authority comes directly from God

Social contract

• •French thinkers who believed that the use of reason could lead to reforms of government, law, and society

• •a distribution of military and economic power among nations to prevent any one country from becoming too strong

• •People enter into an agreement accepting a powerful government in exchange for their freedom

• •parliamentary advisors to the king who in time gained official status

Natural rights

• •rules discoverable by reason

• •ruling with unlimited authority

• •an absolute ruler who uses  power to bring about political and social change

• •The rights belonging to all people at birth, including the right to life, liberty, and property

Philosophes

• •French thinkers who believed that the use of reason could lead to reforms of government, law, and society

• •People enter into an agreement accepting a powerful government in exchange for their freedom

• •royal French residence and seat of government established by King Louis XIV

• •a government whose power is defined and limited by law

•an economic system allowing business to operate with little or no government interference

• LAISSEZ FAIRE

• LEVÉE

• DISSENTERS

• PURITANS

HAPSBURG EMPIRE

• •Central European empire that in the 1500s included the Holy Roman Empire and the Netherlands

• •a royal official who collected taxes, recruited soldiers, and carried out the king’s policies in the provinces

• •royal French residence and seat of government established by King Louis XIV

• •a ritual ceremony performed each morning when King Louis XIV rose from bed

ABSOLUTE MONARCH

• •a monarchy that rules in partnership with Parliament or another governing body

• •a ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people

• •ruling with unlimited authority

• •A landowning noble

DIVINE RIGHT

• •a government whose power is defined and limited by law

• •restrictions on access to ideas or information

• •informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas

• •the belief that a ruler’s authority comes directly from God

ARMADA

• •a fleet of ships

• •a fleet of

• •a fleet of armada

• •a royal official who collected taxes, recruited soldiers, and carried out the king’s policies in the provinces

INTENDANT

• •a royal official who collected taxes, recruited soldiers, and carried out the king’s policies in the provinces

• •royal French residence and seat of government established by King Louis XIV

• •a ritual ceremony performed each morning when King Louis XIV rose from bed

• •a distribution of military and economic power among nations to prevent any one country from becoming too strong