Unit 9: Absolutism to the Fall of Napoleon

A ruler who has complete authority

• Senator

• President

• Autocrat

• Social Contract

German born ruler of an efficient, autocratic Russian government; expanded the South to gain warm water ports

• Elizabeth I

• Catherine the Great

• Louis XIV

• Otto von Bismarck

Means an absolute ruler who uses their power to bring about social and political changes

• Enlightened Despot

• Dictator

• Autocrat

• President

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Russian Czar who westernized and centralized royal power

• King Louis XIV

• Catherine the Great

• John Locke

• Peter the Great

Wrote the "Spirit of Laws," which designed a three-branch system of government

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

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Refers to the period in the 1700s in which people rejected traditional ideas and supported a belief in human reason

• The Feudal System

• The Cold War

• Mercantilism

• The Enlightenment

Wrote the "Social Contract" - stressed that man was born free and becomes corrupt

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Peter the Great

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Wrote the "Two Treatises of Government," which outlined natual rights (life, liberty, and property)

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

• Catherine the Great

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A right that belongs to all humans from birth

• voting rights

• religious rights

• natural rights

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An agreement by which people give up their freedom to a powerful government in order to avoid chaos

• Social Contract

• Bourgeoisie

• Autocrat

• Natural Rights

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