Absolute Rulers
Absolutism
The Enlightenment
Philosophes
Bonus Material from the Unit
100

This ruler is credited for building the palace of Versailles.

King Louis XIV

100

The term kings of Europe used to justify their rule from around the late 1500s to the early 1800s.

Divine Right

100

The Enlightenment movement is best characterized as this type of movement.

A philosophical or intellectual movement.

100

This philosopher believed the men had natural rights.

John Locke

100

This American forefather/revolutionary was known to visit the coffee houses of Paris. 

Ben Franklin

200

This ruler looked to "westernize" Russia.

Peter the Great

200
The theory of Divine Right states that rulers get their justification to rule from this person. 

God

200

This Italian political philosopher from the 1500s had a major impact on the philosophes of The Enlightenment. 

Niccolo Machiavelli
200

This French philosopher commented how England had a system of "separation of powers" while France was ruled by an absolute monarch. 

Montesquieu 

200

The main character in Voltaire's Candide shoots these animals after he believes they are trying to eat the buttocks of women. 

Monkeys

300

Ivan the Terrible looked to make this sect of Christianity the official religion of Russia.

Orthodox Christianity

300

King Louis XIV expelling French Protestants (Huguenots) out of France is an example of this trait of an absolute ruler. 

Control of the state religion

300

Though they had different interpretations of it, both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke agreed on this theory about mankind. 

The State of Nature
300

This philosopher had to leave Paris after his works were published that criticized both the monarchy and the Catholic Church. 

Voltaire

300

This fashion item was all the rage during the reign of Louis XIV.

Knee high socks/tights 

400

This king led the Cavaliers during the English Civil War.

King Charles I

400
Absolutism is most strongly connected to this branch of Christianity.

Roman Catholicism 

400

While Rousseau believed in popular democracy, Montesquieu believed in this type of democracy. 

Republican Democracy

400

This philosopher believed that life was "nasty, brutish, and short." 

Thomas Hobbes

400

This artistic movement in both music and architecture is best associated with the period of Absolutism.

The Baroque

500

The name of the event where William and Mary become the new monarchs of England after deposing James II.

The Glorious Revolution

500

These type of wars led to Absolutism becoming the dominant political structure in early modern Europe.

Wars of religion

500

The Enlightenment would help lead to revolution on what Caribbean island?

Haiti

500

This philosopher is best known for her advocacy of women's' rights. 

Mary Wollstonecraft 

500

This many queens of Henry VIII lost their heads. The others either got divorced, died, or survived....

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