Absolute Power
This type of government gives the monarch total control over the state.
Absolute Monarchy
This French king is considered the model of absolutism.
King Louis XIV (14)
This king's actions led to the English Civil War and his own beheading.
King Charles I
The nation that emerged as the leading world power after the Seven Years War.
Great Britain
The family that came to the Russian throne in the 1600s and held power until 1917.
The Romanovs
The belief that a monarch's power came directly from God.
Divine Right
The supporters of the king during the English Civil War.
Cavaliers
This treaty ended the Seven Years War in the New World, taking most of France's landholdings there.
Treaty of Paris
This ruler westernized Russia, using France as an example.
Peter the Great
Absolutism did not take hold in England because of this power of Parliament.
power of the purse
Louis XIV revoked this document, which ended religious freedom for Huguenots (Protestants).
Edict of Nantes
This law prevented the government from jailing people without cause.
Habeas Corpus Act
DAILY DOUBLE
What day did George Washington surrender Fort Necessity to the French, triggering the Seven Years War?
July 4, 1754
This ruler, known as the "Great Elector," unified Prussia as an absolutist nation.
Frederick William
This political leader strongly opposed absolutism, but ultimately created his own dictatorship after the English Civil War.
Oliver Cromwell
This advisor strengthened the power of the French king under Louis XIII.
Cardinal Richelieu
The name of the peaceful revolution that replaced James II, a Stuart, with William and Mary.
Glorious Revolution
This agreement said that European nations would respect Austria's boundaries and led to the War of Austrian Succession.
Pragmatic Sanction
This Russian monarch staged a coup in order to take power.
Catherine the Great
Absolute monarchs used ___ and ___ to maintain a balance of power with other monarchs.
war/taking territory and alliances
DAILY DOUBLE
The original purpose of Versailles before King Louis XIV expanded it into a grand palace.
Hunting Lodge
This law allowed Parliament to choose who would take the throne after William and Mary.
Act of Settlement
This treaty ended the Thirty Years War and allowed independent Protestant nations.
Peace of Westphalia
These three nations split Poland amongst themselves.
Prussia, Russia, Austria