The Age of Absolutism

is the belief that a ruler`s authority comes directly from God.

The Age of Absolutism describes a period of European history in which monarchs successfully gathered the wealth and power of the state to themselves.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What concept was the belief in "divine right" used to support?

• freedom of religion.

• absolute power in the hands of kings or queens.

• A.     separation of church and state.

• waging war for religious purposes..

European monarchs became absolute rulers in response to which of the following?

• The growth and increased power of nobilities and representative bodies.

• The increased size of courts and new government bureaucracies

• The decline of feudalism, the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation and the Commercial Revolution all served to enrich European society and to greatly increase the power of European monarchs.

• The heavy tax burdens that were levied to support trade and colonial growth

Absolutism means

• the real power in any state must be religious and exercised by the church.

• ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right.

• subordinate powers have an absolute right to advise the king on conducting the affairs of state.

• no matter how humble, male citizens have an absolute right to participate in politics.

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

What does Absolute Ruler mean?

• a ruler who is sure of their power
• A ruler who is involved in all aspects of government and public life
• someone who has to answer to a separate government body
• a ruler who is absolute

Absolutist monarchs were ones who

• sought to control all aspects of public and private life.
• gathered all power under their personal control.
• governed as if the affairs of state should benefit the people.
• respect the laws passed by the representative institutions.

By the 1500s, which country had emerged as the first modern European power?

• Spain

• England

• Turkey

• The United States

Phillip II’s religion was…

• Catholic

• Protestant