Absolutism
Where monarchs held total control over government and society.
absolutism
How did thinkers promote knowledge?
Observation and Experimentation
What intellectual movement centered on reason, logic, and natural laws?
Enlightenment
What created great hate toward the monarchy?
Debt and taxation on peasants
what is the highest populated country?
India
Where did kings and queens receive their authority.
Directly from God
Nicolaus Copernicus
Who believed that all people were born with natural rights?
John Locke
What was the Reign of Terror?
A series of guillotine executions
what is the most popular color?
Blue
How did monarchs attempt to modernize their rule?
By adopting Enlightenment ideas
What was the heliocentric model about?
Argued that the Earth revolved around the Sun
Voltaire strongly defended what?
Who rose to power in 1799?
Napoleon Bonaparte
what is the most popular food?
Pizza
What happened in Spain during the 17th century?
Bankrupt government
Who supported the heliocentric model and also provided a telescope?
Galileo Galilei
Thomas Hobbes described government as a what?
social contract
How did he establish reforms in the government?
what is the most popular sport?
Soccer
How did Louis XIV expand their nation
through costly wars
What did Europeans begin questioning?
What did the Neoclassical style reflect?
balance, order, and admiration
Waterloo
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