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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
A monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God.
Divine Right
Versailles
Absolutism
Czar
Known as the Sun King and the ruler of France
King James II
King Phillip
Louis XIV
Louis XXI
Known as the Sun King and the ruler of France
King James II
King Phillip
Louis XIV
Louis XXI
A bloodless overthrow of the England ruler King James II
Glorious Revolution
French Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
English Bill of Rights
Created to give more rights to the people of England
Glorious Revolution
Petition of Rights
English Bill of Rights
Constitutional Monarchy
The principal royal residence of France from 1682 under Louis XIV until the start of the French Revolution in 1789 under Louis XVI
Absolutism
Versailles
Divine Right
Czar
a political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers
Divine Right
Absolutism
Versailles
Renaissance
Known as the leader of Russia
Czar
Versailles
Absolutism
Divine Right
Mandate of Heaven is to China, as ________________________ is to Europe
Absolutism
Constitutional Monarchs
Versailles
Divine Right
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.
Who was Peter the Great?
This man promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European
This man demonstrated absolutism by building the city Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility
This man didn't believe that the average person was intelligent enough to participate in government, which led him to believe that enlightened monarchy was best
This man thought that humans were naturally greedy and chaotic and would need a large government to control them
During the reign of Charles I of England,
the English Civil War occurred.
Oliver Cromwell emerged as the new military leader.
Parliament was dissolved.
All of the above
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.
Which of the following was a problem with the age of absolutism?
Wars were fought for status, religion, territory, and power
Taxes were raised to build roads, canals, factories, and merchant ships
Countries gained vast territories of land throughout Europe
Tremendous wealth was gained by utilizing their colonies raw materials
Westernization means …
Traveling West in search of natural resources
To adopt or be influenced by the cultural, economic, or political systems of Europe
The following could be said about Phillip II’s legacy
It was a success because he spent his money wisely and left Spain wealthy
It was an economic failure because he left Spain poor after a lot of spending on wars.
He is relatively unknown as a monarch
His dad Charles V was more well known
