Absolutism

Czar in 1689, was a member of the Romanov dynasty, absolute monarch who claimed the divine right to the throne

• Peter the Great

• Michael Romanov

• Louis XIV

• Cardinal Richelieu

Chief minister to Louis XIV & strengthened power of the monarchy.

• Fredrick William the Elector

• Cardinal Richelieu

• Peter the Great

• Jean Baptiste Colbert

Title used for Russian Emperors

• boyar

• president

• Czar

• Absolutism

System where a rules holds total power.

 

 

• Czar

• Boyar

• Absolutism

• Humanism

Member of the Russian nobility.

• czar

• boyar

• Austria

• Prussia

What countries practiced absolutism in in 1600's

• France, Russia, Prussia, Spain

• America, France

• Finland, America

• Russia alone

Consolidation of power under the Monarch by weakening the nobility through the creation of bureaucracies that were directly answerable to the king led to Absolutism?

• True

• False

It was important to Peter the Great to make St Petersburg a great state and "window to the west"

• True

• False

He influenced the idea of the divine right or Kings

• Peter the Great

• Phillip II

• Louis XIV

• James I

The royal court of Versailles was NOT used by Louis XIV as

• to have powerful subjects visit to seek favors

• as the center for the state office

• the first university

• as his personal residence