Age of absolutism

An absolute monarch justified their power with the theory known as—

• balance of power

• Divine right

• pragmatic sanction

• regiment of grants

Which quotation would most likely have been made by an absolute monarch?

• "It is the parliament that must make the laws."

• "The government must be based on a sound constitution."

•  "The rights and prohibitions of the nation are joined with my body and reside in my hands alone. Public order in its entirety comes from me."

• “People in a state of nature are solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."

Absolutism is—

• The idea that there is an important question that a monarch needs to force into

  law particularly when dealing with a female inheriting the throne.

• The idea that a monarch has direct power from God to rule and that they are

  responsible to God alone.

• The idea that a monarch has the authority to have complete and absolute control.

• The idea that a monarch has the ability to tell his subjects what they are to do in

  life.

Match the following

• How rulers explain their power.

• Divine Right of Kings

• Fancy Palace outside of Paris.

• Versailles

• King has complete power.

• King Louis XIV

• King's power is limited by a monarchy.

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Leader of France

• Absolute Monarchy

Which speaker represents the view of King Louis XIV of France?

• Speaker A

• Speaker B

• Speaker C

• Speaker D

Which type of government is most closely associated with all of these speakers?

• Limited Monarchy

• Democratic Republic

• Absolute Monarchy

• Direct Democracy

Which nations was most likely governed by Speaker A?

• England

• Spain

• France

• Russia

Which speaker represents the view and actions of King Henry VII?

• Speaker A

• Speaker B

• Speaker C

• Speaker D

• Wrote that man was not naturally good. 

• Said that without a strong central authority to keep order, life would be “nasty, brutish and short.”said Kings were justified to having absolute power in order to maintain order in society.

• Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• John Locke

The economic theory based on a country's ability to export more goods than import which contributed to the rise of absolutism was

• capitalism.

• laissez faire economics.

• mercantilism.

• socialism.