Unit 7 Absolute Monarch, Gunpowder, Feudal Japan

What does Absolute Ruler mean?

• a ruler who is sure of their power

• a ruler who is absolute

• someone who has to answer to a separate government body

• A ruler who is involved in all aspects of government and public life

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

• support political freedom for the new middle classes

• centralize their political control over their nations

• prevent contact with areas beyond Europe's borders

• maintain peaceful relations with neighboring nations

What system was in decline that helped monarchs gain the absolute power?

• Democracy

• Communism

• Feudalism

• Republicism

What document gave religious rights to all faiths?

• The Edict of Nantes

• Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Petition of Rights

Which leader westernized Russia?

• Charles I

• Peter the Great

• Louis XIV

• Ivan the Terrible

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

• laissez-faire

• predestination

• totalitarianism

• divine right

What king became France's most powerful ruler and boasted "I am the state"?

• Henry III

• Louis XIV

• Charles II

• Frederick IV

What body in England placed limits on the powers of the monarchs?

• The Church

• Universities

• Parliament

• Foreign governments

A monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God.

• Divine Right

• Absolutism

• Czar

• Versailles

Who was Louis XIV?

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

• 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.

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