Absolutism-Revolutions

Who was Peter the Great?

• This man promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European

• This man demonstrated absolutism by building the city Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility

• This man didn't believe that the average person was intelligent enough to participate in government, which led him to believe that enlightened monarchy was best

• This man thought that humans were naturally greedy and chaotic and would need a large government to control them

Who was Louis XIV?

• This man promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European

• This man demonstrated absolutism by building Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility

• This man believed that humans were naturally good and would not need a large government to rule over them.

• This man did not believe that the average person was intelligent enough to participate in government, which led him to believe that an enlightened monarchy was best.

The English Bill of Rights

• created a constitutional monarchy.

• resolved all of England's seventeenth-century religious questions.

• reaffirmed the divine-right theory of kingship while limiting the king's power.

• confirmed the king's right to raise standing armies without parliamentary consent.

The theory justifying a monarch's rule by God's authority is called

• laissez-faire
• totalitarianism
• predestination
• divine right

Westernization means …

• Traveling West in search of natural resources

• To adopt or be influenced by the cultural, economic, or political systems of Europe

The following could be said about Phillip II’s legacy

• It was a success because he spent his money wisely and left Spain wealthy

• It was an economic failure because he left Spain poor after a lot of spending on wars.

• He is relatively unknown as a monarch

• His dad Charles V was more well known

The English Bill of Rights ended the __________________________ in England.

• Constitutional Monarchy.

• Absolute Monarchy.

• Totalitarian State.

• westernized Russia.

John Locke's central political value was

• the protection of individual rights.
• equal distribution of wealth.
• designing governments around biblical teachings.
• nullified by the exploration of central Africa.

During the Scientific Revolution, European scientists focused their work on explaining

• how government affects the individual.
• Life
• advanced chemistry
• the workings of the natural world

The idea that the sun is the center of our universe

• Hawkin Theory
• Heliocentric 
• Applied astronomy 
• Geocentric