Absolutism and Constitutionalism

Question 1

divine-right monarchy

Answer 1

A monarchy based on the belieft that monarches recieve their power directly from God and are responsible to no one except God

Question 2

Louis XIV

Answer 2

Absoulute or define right monarch of France that nearly bacnkrupt France after four wars. expanded army from 100,000 to 400,000

Question 3

Versailles

Answer 3

Palace of French Monarchs, central government machinery and the place where powerful subjects came to find favors.

Question 4

Prussia

Answer 4

Frederucj Wukkuan tge Great Ekectir laid the foundation for the Prussian state. Rose an army of 40,000 men and established the General War Commissariat to levy taxes. Many of its officials were members of the Prussian Land aristocracy aka Junkers.

Question 5

Austrian Empire

Answer 5

monach rulled of Bohemians and and Hungarians and never became a highly centralized state because of the many national groups. The empire was a collection of terrirories ruled by the Habsburgs

Question 6

Peter the Great of Russia

Answer 6

6 feet 9 inches tall. Brute by esablished the navy and army to compete with western european powers.Faught a war with sweeden to gain lands that gave him a port in the west “open window to the west” St petersburg was esablished. By the time he died Russian had become a great military power.

Question 7

English Bill of Rights

Answer 7

1688 the bill of rights that gave parlament rights. After William and Mary assumed power. Restricted monarch powers to manipulate parlament.

Question 8

limited (constitutional) monarchy

Answer 8

A system of government in which the monarch is limited by a representative assembly and by the duty to rule in accoordance with the laws of the land

Question 9

enlightened absolutism (Enlightened Despotism)

Answer 9

An absolute monarchy in which the ruler follows the principles of the enlightenment by introducing reforms for the improvement of society allowing freedom of soeach, press, religious tolerance, etc.

Question 10

Frederick the Great of Prussia

Answer 10

enlightened monarch believed the king was the first servant of the state. Bureaucracy had its own code of supreme values were obedience honor and service to the king as the highest duty. Abolished most torture, granted some freedom of speach, press and religious tolerance.

Question 11

Catherine the Great of Russia

Answer 11

Allowed enlightened philosophes such as Diderot to Russia. Eventually didnt listen to ideas of equality and favored policies that exempted nobles from taxes. This causes rebellion from Pugachev a illerate cossack but is squashed. She pushes for western expansion and gains half of poland