Vocabulary
To support and argue in favor of.
What is advocate?
John Locke's three fundamental (essential) natural rights.
What are life, liberty, and property?
An alternative name for King Louis XIV.
What is the Sun King?
What is an archipelago?
The name for a lover of wisdom, and a deep thinker.
What is a philosopher?
An abuse of power
What is Tyranny?
This philosopher argued that the powers of the government should be separated into three branches to prevent tyranny.
Who is Baron De Montesquieu?
An alternative name for King Louis XIV.
What is the Sun King?
The most powerful title/rank in Japanese society during the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which ruled over Japan.
What is a Shogun?
Montesquieu's three branches of government.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
This form of government contains a monarch whose power is limited by a constitution.
What is a constitutional monarchy.
This English philosopher argued that human nature is wicked and wrote the book, The Leviathan.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
The Bourbon kings France who had complete power ruled using this this form of government.
What is an absolute monarchy/absolute government?
The Japanese feudal military government which ruled Japan from 1600 to 1868.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
An agreement where the government protects people's rights with fair laws and the people give their consent (permission) to the government to rule.
What is a social contract?
The form of government where decisions are made with the consent of the people.
What is a democracy?
This English philosopher was a member of Parliament and advocated for the abolishment of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Who is William Wilberforce?
The belief that the king or queen derived his or her authority to rule and govern god directly.
What is Divine Right/Divine Right of Kings?
The least respected title/rank in Japanese society during the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
What are merchants?
The Empress of Russia who ruled as an enlightened despot.
During this period of time between the 17th - 18th centuries, European monarchs centralized their power to themselves and ruled with absolute power.
What is the Age of Absolutism?
This French philosopher supported free speech but believed enlightened despotism was the best form of government.
Who is Voltaire?
The massive palace King Louis XIV lived in with his nobles to keep them under his control.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
The Tokugawa Shogunate embraced this policy by closing themselves off from the rest of the world.
What is isolationism/isolation?
What is, A Vindication of the Rights of Women?