1.2 Age of Absolutism Vocabulary

A ruler who has total authority over the government and its people, without any restrictions.

• absolute monarch

• oligarchy

• constitutional monarchy

• divine right

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Russian landholding nobles; possessed less political power than their western European counterparts

• Boyars
• cabinet
• Cardinal Richelieu
• Charles I of England

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What is the term for a group of high-ranking government officials who advise the head of state and manage their respective departments?

• Cabinet

• Royal Council

• Parliament

• Senate

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He was a key figure in the development of the French absolute monarchy and served as the chief minister to King Louis XIII

• Cardinal Richelieu

• Oliver Cromwell

• King James I

• Thomas Hobbes

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Who was the English monarch executed during the English Civil War by Oliver Cromwell?

• Charles I of England

• James I of England

• Henry VIII of England

• Elizabeth I of England

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This is a system of government where the monarch shares authority with an organized government. The rights of the citizens are typically protected by a constitution.

• Absolute Monarchy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Anarchy

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the idea that monarchs are God's representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God.

• divine right theory

• Constitutional Monarchy

• English Bill of Rights

• feudalism

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Which document provided religious tolerance to French Protestants, also known as Huguenots?

• Treaty of Westphalia

• Edict of Nantes

• Act of Toleration

• Peace of Augsburg

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a conflict, lasting from 1642 to 1649, in which Puritan supporters of Parliament battled supporters of England's monarchy

• English Civil War
• Treaty of Westphalia

• Glorious Revolution
• French and Indian War

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Monarch of Prussia; implemented reforms; strengthened military; advocated religious tolerance; enhanced state's economic control.

• Louis XIV

• Peter the Great

• Frederick the Great

• Oliver Cromwell

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