Age of Absolutism

Spain had moved away from this by the 1500s & doing so helped them become the 1st modern European power

• Glorious Revolution

• English Bill of Rights

• Feudalism

• Oliver Cromwell

A political system in which a ruler holds total power

• Absolutism

• Huguenots

• Glorious Revolution

• James II (1685-1688)

Belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from god.

• Puritans

• Huguenots

• Absolutism

• Divine Right

French Protestants

• Estates General

• Huguenots

• Feudalism

• Louis XIV

A series of violent uprisings during the early reign of Louis XIV triggered by growing royal control and increased taxation

• Puritans

• Fronde

• English Bill of Rights

• Thirty Years War

An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.

• Estates General

• Levellers

• English Bill of Rights

• Peter the Great

Mass slaying of Huguenots in Paris, on Saint Bartholomew's Day, 1572.

• St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

• Limited Monarchy

• Edict of Nantes

• Divine Right

Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility.

• Puritans

• Huguenots

• Versailles

• Absolutism

Leader of the English Commonwealth - treated those who opposed him very harshly. Took title of Lord Protector.

• English Bill of Rights

• Oliver Cromwell

• Puritans

• Catherine the Great

Group who thought that poor men should have equal say in government with the upper classes.

• Absolutism

• Levellers

• Spanish Armada (1588)

• Catherine the Great