Divine Rule
Who has it?
Monarchs/Kings/Queens
How Monarch pays for resources?
Levy taxes
Why imprison people?
don't pay taxes/oppose ruler
1st time: "No one above law"?
Magna Carta
Wanted "beard tax" to westernize
Peter the Great
Reigned 1558-1603?
Queen Elizabeth I
Who gives it?
God
Who appoints Royal Jobs?
Monarch
Which religion followed?
Monarch's religion
This Fought limiting Monarch's Power?
English Civil Wars
Catherine the Great wanted?
Continue to "Westernize" and reorganize
Reigned 1643-1715?
King Louis XIV
Who used to give it?
Pope
Monarch's Legal Job?
Judge, jury, executioner
Monarch raises?
Taxes/Armies/Navies
Charles I power ended, why?
Dethroned/Executed
Politcal Power Palace?
Versailles
Reigned alone 1696-1725?
Czar Peter the Great
Who questions authority?
No one
Magna Carta tries to?
Stop Absolutism
Only Monarch declares?
War!
Civil War; Who vs Who?
Royalists vs Parliamentarians
Sun Kings' accomplishments?
Versailles/Revoked Nantes
Religious event in 1593
Henry IV of France, becomes Catholic
Type of Rule?
Absolute/Central
Why Monarch taxes the people?
Pay off debts/for wars
People finally take away control from King?
English Bill of Rights
When Parliament gain power?
After Glorious Revolution
French Bishop Bossuet's view?
Absolute Power necessary
Non Monarch takes over England 1645
Oliver Cromwell