Absolute Monarchs Quiz

The primary goal of most of Europe's absolute monarchs was to

• support political freedom for the new middle classes

• prevent contact with areas beyond Europe's borders

• have complete political control over the nation they ruled.

• maintain peaceful relations with neighboring nations

This absolute monarch weakened his nobles by forcing them to live with him at the Palace of Versailles and had them do all of his personal tasks.

• Phillip II

• Louis XIV

• Frederick the Great

• James II

Theory that justified absolutism by claiming that absolute power came directly from God

• Divine Right

• Enlightened

• Social Contract theory

• Manifest Destiny

The Absolute Ruler of Russia who attempted to modernize his country with reforms.

• Louis XIV

• Peter the Great

• Henry VIII

• Tsar Ivan the Terrible

The scientist from the Scientific Revolution who discovered gravity.

• Francis Bacon

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

The Scientist from the Scientific Revolution who created the Scientific Method still used today.

• Francis Bacon

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

The Scientist from the Scientific Revolution who invented the telescope.

• Francis Bacon

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

The Scientist from the Scientific Revolution who was the first to claim the sun was the center of the Solar System?

• Frances Bacon

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

Which absolute monarch named himself the Sun King and built a Hall of Mirrors to display his wealth and glory?

• Louis XIV

• Peter the Great

• Henry VIII

• Tsar Ivan the Terrible

Under absolute monarchs, people have limited what?

• Money

• Rights

• Freedom

• All of the above