Absolute Monarchs, Enlightenment and Scientific Questions

Who was Louis XIV?

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

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

• 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.

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

Select the name of one leader of an absolute monarchy.

• King Louis XIV

• Ms. Anderson

• Lori Lightfoot

• Joe Biden

Louis XIV and Peter the Great would most likely agree with the expression —

• "All men are created with natural rights."

• "Countries should settle differences without war."

• "Do not question government authority." 

• "Government should leave businesses alone."

Many European leaders ruled as absolute monarchs from the 1400s into the 1700s. The situation in England was different because the powers of the monarchy were limited. This type of monarch is called...

• Figurehead

• Absolute

• Limited/Constitutional

• Dictatorship

Which Enlightenment thinker believed in the "social contract"?

• Charles-Louis Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Adam Smith

• John Locke

What impact did the Enlightenment have on Absolute Monarchs?

• It caused an increase in them in various nations throughout Europe

• It caused people to question them and favor more Democratic governments

• It caused the acceptance of Divine Right as a legitimate political theory

• All of the above

Enlightenment thinker who viewed humanity in a negative way and believed people were naturally wicked.

• John Locke

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Thomas Hobbes

fought for freedom of speech and opposed religious intolerance and corruption in government

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

What concept was the belief in "divine right" used to support?

• Absolute Rule

• Freedom of religion

• Separation of Church and state

• waging war for religious purposes