Preview 7th grade ss test

What is Divine Right?

• a set of rules used by the greeks

• the God given right to rule

• Hitler's reason to exterminate Jewish people

• Machiavelli's theory on power

The "Sun King" - "I am the state."

• Louis XIV

• Thomas Hobbes

• Peter the Great

• Henry VIII

Where did Louis XIV move France's palace?

• Lyon
• Gordes
• Versailles
• Dinan

What type of power is held by an absolute monarch?

• Power over all aspects of a nation's social, political, economic, and cultural identity.

• Extensive power, but limited by a constitution and the nobility

• Only the power the nation is willing to give, often just enough to act as a government figurehead.

Tsar

• Russian Emperor

• a peasant who is legally bound to live and work on land owned by a lord

• to divide up

• to adopt modern ways

Serf

• a person who translates between different languages

• a peasant who is legally bound to live and work on land owned by a lord

• to divide up

• to adopt modern ways

In feudalism, whose job was it to manage and defend their land and the people on it?

• Merchant
• Peasant/Serf
• Monarch/King
• Lord/Noble

Warriors who protected their lords in return for land were known as?

• Peasants
• Serfs
• Knights
• Samurai

What was the purpose of Magna Carta?

• to make the Church weaker
• to give the king more power
• to strengthen common law
• to protect the rights of nobles

Constitutional Monarchy

• to end

• the betrayal of ones country

• system of government in which the laws in the constitution limit the monarch's or emperor's powers

• to bring to an end