Topic 17 Absolutism and Enlightenment

Which Spanish monarch went to war to defend the Catholic Church?

• Charles V

• Louis IVX

• Maria Theresa

• Peter the Great

Absolute monarchs believed that they had the

• right to go to war

• divine right to rule

• right to rule the Church

• right to be considered gods

Match the following

• Frederick the Great

• Visited Western Europe to modernize Russia

• Cardinal Richelieu

• became a Catholic and passed the Edict of Nantes

• Catherine the Great

• Raised taxes and built up the military in France as he ruled as regent

• Peter the Great

• expanded Russian territory by 200,000 miles

• Henry IV of France

• Skilled military leader of Prussia

Reorder the following

• Gold and silver fund Spain's "Golden Age"

• The Spanish take gold and silver from the Americas

• The Spanish claim colonies in the Americas

Which two groups were at almost constant war throughout the 1500s? (Hint: after the Reformation)

• kings and the Church

• colonists and Puritans

• Protestants and Catholics

• conquistadors and explorers

Who issued the Edict of Nantes in France to end religious confict?

• Catherine the Great

• Henry IV

• James I

• Frederick the Wise

Why did Louis XIV build the Palace of Versailles?

• to show his divine right to rule

• to show he had inherited a wealthy kingdom

• to end the French Revolution

• to show his power and prestige

Why did Peter the Great travel in disguise throughout Western Europe?

• To being war against Sweden

• To build a warmer sea port

• To gain ideas in order to modernize Russia

• To defeat Catherine the Great in war

Peter the Great wanted to acquire a ​ (a)   sea port so that Russia could ​ (b)   trade with the ​ (c)   . He defeated ​ (d)   and built a port city called ​ (e)   .

• warmer
• increase
• West
• Sweden
• St. Petersburg
• colder
• limit
• East
• Prussia

Catherine the Great ​ (a)   Russian territory by ​ (b)   miles into ​ (c)   Europe.

• expanded
• 200,000
• Eastern
• decreased
• 400,000
• Western