Absolute Monarcy-Unit 6

Characteristics of an Absolute Monarch are:

-Claiming of Divine Rights

-Centralizing power for themselves

-Controlling nobility

-Large building projects for themselves

• True

• False

Peter the Great adopted customs that ________________ individual rights.

• Gave

• Took Away

• Destroyed

• Improved

King Henry VIII ______________________in order to divorce Catherine of Argon.

• Created the Anglican Church

• Executed her (Catherine of Aragon)

• Imprisoned her (Catherine of Argon)

• Married Anne Boylen

King Louis XIV named himself the ________ since he believed everything revolved around him.

• Moon King

• Lion King

• Sun King

• Master King

Which group did King Phillip II not persecute?

• Christians/Catholics

• Lutherans

• Jewish and Muslims

• Protestant Missionaries

Where did Peter the Great reign?

• Russia

• England

• France

• Spain

Where did King Henry VIII reign?

• Russia

• England

• France

• Spain

Where did King Louis XIV reign?

• Russia

• England

• France

• Spain

Where did King Philip II reign?

• Russia

• England

• France

• Spain

Term for a monarch holding total power (not having to share with a legislature) over a nation.

• Divine Right

• Czar/Tsar

• Absolutism

• Petition of Right