Absolute Ruler Quiz

Palace of Versailles

• A route to Asia
• Lavish palace constructed by Louis XIV to reflect his power and might
• Christians who belonged to non-Catholic churches
• It was the window into the Western World and it allowed for trade.

Divine Right

• Christians who belonged to non-Catholic churches
• Wanted to Westernize it
• the idea that monarchs are God's representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God.
• Through warfare

Prince Philip II

• Absolute Ruler in Spain
• He stripped the nobles of their power and kept them with him in his palace.
• Europe
• Disease

What did Louis XIV use as his symbol

• Through warfare
• A Russian emperor
• The Sun
• He stripped the nobles of their power and kept them with him in his palace.

How did Philip II advance Catholic power

• Louis XIV
• one who has total power
• Disease
• Through warfare

Why did Philip II raise the taxes

• Protestant
• To support his absolute rule
• (1672-1725) Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg.
• one who has total power

Peter the Great

• She was Mary Tudor's sister
• He stripped the nobles of their power and kept them with him in his palace.
• (1672-1725) Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg.
• France

Czar

• Peter the Great
• A Russian emperor
• An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
• Europe

Peter the Great wanted what for Russia

• Louis XIV
• (1672-1725) Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg.
• Wanted to Westernize it
• Absolute Ruler in Spain

absolute ruler

• To support his absolute rule
• She was Mary Tudor's sister
• government in which a constitution or legislative body limits the monarch's powers
• one who has total power