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
Who wanted "beard tax"?
Peter the Great
Reigned 1533-1603?
Queen Elizabeth I
Who gives it?
God
Who appoints Royal Jobs?
Monarch
Which religion followed?
Monarch's religion
Fought to limit Monarch's Power?
English Civil Wars
Catherine the Great wanted?
Continue to "Westernize" Russia
Reigned 1638-1715?
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 1682-1725?
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 Roundheads
Sun Kings' accomplishments?
Versailles/Revoked Nantes
Religious event in 1593
Henry IV converts Catholic
Theme of Rule?
Absolute/Central
Why Monarch taxes?
Pay off debts/for wars
Finally takes away control?
English Bill of Rights
When Parliament gain power?
After Glorious Revolution
French Bishop Bossuet's view?
Divine Right of Kings
Non Monarch assumes control 1645
Oliver Cromwell