The Three Estates
Absolute Kings
The Enlightenment
England & America
Los Borbones
100
Name the three estates of the Ancien Régime.
The nobility, the clergy and the third estate
100
In an absolute monarchy, who has all the power?
The king
100
In which century was the Enlightenment?
The 18th century
100
How many British colonies were there on the east coast of North America?
Thirteen
100
Murió en 1700 sin hijos y empezó la Guerra de Sucesión.
Carlos II
200
This estate was almost everybody, and it paid all the taxes.
The third estate
200
The old idea that God chooses the king.
The divine right of kings
200
He looked at England and proposed the separation of powers into three.
Montesquieu
200
This English king was executed in 1649.
Charles I
200
El primer rey Borbón de España, nieto de Luis XIV.
Felipe V
300
One tenth of the harvest. The peasants paid it to the Church.
The tithe
300
This French king called himself the Sun King.
Louis XIV
300
He said that power belongs to the people: popular sovereignty.
Rousseau
300
The law of 1689 that limited the power of the English king.
The Bill of Rights
300
El tratado de 1713 que acabó la guerra y dejó el trono a Felipe V.
El Tratado de Utrecht
400
Merchants, doctors and lawyers. They had money but no political power.
The bourgeoisie
400
France, Spain, Austria and Russia had absolute kings. Which country did something different?
England, a parliamentary monarchy
400
Diderot and d'Alembert published this big book between 1751 and 1772.
The Encyclopedia
400
In 1773 the colonists threw this into the sea in the port of Boston.
The tea (the Boston Tea Party)
400
Los dos territorios que pasaron a Gran Bretaña en el Tratado de Utrecht.
Menorca y Gibraltar
500
Leaving part of the land without crops for a year, so it recovers.
Fallow (el barbecho)
500
Name three things an absolute king controlled in his kingdom.
The laws, the taxes, the army, justice (any three)
500
An absolute king who makes Enlightened reforms but gives no power to the people.
Enlightened despotism: everything for the people, but without the people
500
The colonists' slogan against British taxes.
No taxation without representation
500
A Carlos III le pusieron este apodo por lo que hizo en la capital.
El mejor alcalde de Madrid
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