Absolutism to Enlightenment Assessment

During the Age of Absolutism, European monarchs sought to:

• Encourage the growth of cooperative farms
• Develop better relations with Muslim rulers
• Increase human rights for their citizens
• Centralize political power in their nation

Which Enlightenment thinker, who wrote "The Two Treatises on Government", and believed that the people are rational and can govern themselves?

• Hobbes
• Locke
• Voltaire
• Rousseau

Which of the following would most likely agree with the form of government supported by Louis XIV?

• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Baron de Montesquieu

Who had the Palace of Versailles built as a demonstration of wealth and power?

• Catherine the Great
• Louis XIV
• Louis XVI
• Maria Theresa

Which absolute monarch emphasized military power in Prussia?

• Louis XVI
• Louis XIV
• Frederick the Great
• Peter the Great

Who was the Spanish king who sent the Spanish Armada to England?

• Peter the Great
• Louis XVI
• Philip II
• Louis XIV

Which English Queen ruled for 45 years and solidified England as a Protestant nation?

• Mary I
• Elizabeth I
• Maria Theresa
• Catherine the Great

A major concept promoted by philosophers of the Enlightenment was the need for

• A return to traditional medieval ideas
• The use of reason for rational and logical thinking
• Overseas expansion by western European nations
• Strengthening the power of the organized religions

Which statement reflects an argument of Enlightenment philosophers against the belief in the divine right of kings?

• God has chosen all government rulers
• Independence is built by military might
• A capitalist economic system is necessary for democracy
• The power of the government is derived from the governed

During the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, many scientists and philosophers works:

• Relied heavily on the ideas of medieval thinkers
• Favored an absolute monarchy as a way of improving economic conditions
• Received support from the Catholic Church
• Examined natural laws governing the universe