Ancien Regime
A political system without a monarch.
What is a republic?
These groups controlled manufacturing in urban areas.
What are guilds?
This is the belief that people can move up or down in the social hierarchy.
What is social mobility?
He was the first Bourbon king of Spain.
Who was Phillip of Anjou/ Felipe V?
This art style was characterized by exuberance and elegance and reflected the hedonistic lifestyles of the upper class.
What is Roccoco?
This was the main form of government during the Ancien Regime?
What is absolute monarchy?
This system gave legal and economic power to landlords.
What is manorialism?
A rich person who commissions and pays for art.
What is a patron?
In this conflict, the House of Bourbon fought the House of Hapsburg for control.
What was the War of Spanish Succession?
This scientific theory stated the Earth revolves around the Sun.
What is the heliocentric theory?
This theory said monarchs got the right to rule from God.
What is the divine right of kings?
This social group was only 1.5% of the population, but they were very powerful and did not have to pay taxes.
What is the clergy?
These rulers were influenced by Enlightenment ideas, but still had absolute power.
Who were enlightened despots?
This King was known as the Mayor of Madrid.
Who was Carlos III?
This virtue was valued extremely highly by upper class members of society.
What is honor?
This marked the end of the English republic and restored the monarchy.
What is the Glorious Revolution of 1688?
This was the newest of the social groups, that would eventually bring about the fall of the Ancien Regime.
Who were the bourgeoisie?
He put forward ideas about the free market and economic liberalism in his book, "The Wealth of Nations".
Who was Adam Smith?
Under Carlos III, Spain allied with France during these two conflicts.
The Seven Years War and the American Revolution?
This art style followed Rococo, and was more serious and orderly.
What is neoclassicism?
Who was William of Orange?
An economic theory based on the idea that a nation's economic success depended on how much gold and silver they had.
What is mercantilism?
This book, published in France, represented Enlightenment thought and tried to inform the general public.
What was the Encyclopedia?
What were the Nueva Planta Decrees?
This action was seen as dishonorable by the upper class, and they tried to avoid it as much as possible.
What is working?