9th Unit 7 #3: Age of Absolutism

Absolute monarchs

• share power with the people

• rule with total control

During the Age of Absolutism, monarchs believed they got their power from God. This idea is called

• Parliamentary democracy

• divine right

King Louis XIV of France controlled the nobles by

• having them live at the Palace at Versailles

• forcing them to serve in the French military

Bishop Boussuet’s point of view is that kings rule due to

• divine right

• democracy

This statement describes the philosophy that existed during the

• Enlightenment

• Age of Absolutism

• Renaissance

• Industrial Revolution