What is absolutism?

political system in which one ruler or leader has complete power and authority over a country.
This king inherited the kingdoms of Naples, Sicily, Netherlands, and Spain
Charles the I or the V and then his son, King Philip 
She was Catherine of Aragon's daughter and wanted to return to Catholicism so she fiercely persecuted all protestants in England.
Bloody Mary

Queen Elizabeth´s favourite privateer
Sir Francis Drake

A group of merchants, bankers, and artisans that developed capitalism and were the new social class in modernity.
bourgeoises
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He was the one who established the protestant religion in England, the Anglican religion.
Henry the VIII

Who became Queen of England in 1558, built up the union, and advanced in that country.
Elizabeth Tudor

Who was Joan Of Arc?

Also known as: The Maid of Orléans
St. Joan of Arc is a national heroine of France. She was a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans in 1429 that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War.
The period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages and conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in Classical scholarship and values.
Rennaissance

The most emblematic monarch of absolutism who said, "I AM THE ESTATE"
LUIS XIV
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She was a Queen that his father and then his son didn´t allow her to rule arguing she was crazy
Juana "la Loca "
Name the Empire in Century XV
Spain

What was the divine right?
it was asserted that kings derived their authority from God and could not be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority such as a parliament.
The strategy of Louis XIV for centralized power
Built up Versailles and brought all nobility to live there

Her husband sent the order to decapitate her because she couldn´t have a male herd
Anne Boleyn

Why didn´t Germany form their Nation State during Century XV?
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Because:
1- Spain dominated the north of it
2- The princes were strong in their regions
3.- The protestant Reform happened and was disordered
Also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe, especially Western Europe, in the 17th and 18th centuries, with global influences and effects.
the Enlightenment
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Mention the most important reform of Peter The Great

He wanted to modernize Russia coping the European model, it was called Westernization
She recovered Granada from Muslims and unified Spain getting married to Fernando Of Aragon
Isabel from CASTILLA
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Who was Martin Luther?

Martin Luther, a teacher and a monk, published a document he called Disputation on the Power of Indulgences, or 95 Theses.
He did The Protestant Reformation, it was a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s.