Age of Absolutism

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During the Age of Absolutism, monarchs sought to _______ their power.

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centralize

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1. Which Enlightenment wrote The Two Treatises on Government? \

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1. Locke

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1. Who had the Palace of Versailles built?

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1. Louis XIV

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1. Which Prussian ruler emphasized military power?

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1. Frederick the Great

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1. Which Spanish king sent the Spanish Armada to England?

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1. Phillip II

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1. Who ruled England as queen for 45 years and solidified England as a Protestant nation?

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elizabeth l

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1. Philosophers emphasized the need for what?

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1. The use of reason for rational and logical thinking

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1. Enlightenment thinkers believed that the power of the government came from whom? The governed

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1. The governed

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1. According to the Divine Right Theory, monarchs' right to rule came from whom?

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1. God

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1. Why did Peter the Great move the capital of Russia to St. Petersburg?

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1. To be closer to Western Europe and to open up trade through the Baltic Sea