Unit 4: Power & Authority in a Global World

Who made up the First and Second Estates of French Society before the French Revolution?

• The Clergy and the King

• The Clergy and the Noble Class

• The Working Class & Peasants

• The Proletariat

The idea that God gave certain Kings or Queens the right to rule an area of the world is called..

• Freedom of Speech

• Separation of Powers

• Divine Right of Kings

• Absolutism

This Enlightenment thinker promoted the idea of Natural Rights

• Voltaire

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

The Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan and France under Louis XIV both controlled their nobles by..

• Taxing them highly

• Marrying them into the royal family

• Keeping nobles and their families close

• Going to war

The process by which Enlightenment ideas spread to areas of the Americas is called..

• The Silk Road

• Trade

• Separation of Powers

• Cultural Diffusion

A style of government where one monarch takes control of all aspects of rule is called..

• Absolutism

• Totalitarianism

• Autocracy

• Despotism

An agreement between rulers and the people to cooperate for mutual social benefits in pursuit of a better society

• divine right

• free enterprise

• laissez-faire

• social contract

Separation of Powers

• Separating the ruler from the military.

• Dividing powers equally among organizations

• Dividing powers equally among three people

• Dividing powers equally among three branches of government.

Peter the Great forced Russians to accept reforms that would make their culture more like ____.

• Native Americans

• Chinese

• Ottoman Turks

• Western Europeans

Declaration of the Rights of Man...

• ... explained why the British colonies should be free

• ... listed the natural rights of citizens in revolutionary France

• ... abolished the monarchy