Absolutism and Enlightenment Flashcards
Who established strong Royal authority in France and gave her some religious freedom?
Henry the 4th
Who was the regent to Louis the 13th and persecuted Huguenots and weakened the nobility’s power?
Cardinal Richelieu
Who was the swedish king, hero and casualty of 30 Years War?
Gustavus Adolphus
Who claimed “I am the State!”
Louis the 14th
Who was the Prussian who built roads, postal system, free education, with some religious and legal freedom?
Frederick William
Who turned Prussia into a world power with a strong military?
Frederick the 2nd
What was the Austrian Royal family name?
Hapsburg
Who was nicknamed “the terrible”?
Ivan
Who sought to westernize Russia and traveled to England/the Netherlands to learn all he could?
Peter the Great
Who was the immoral and ambitious ruler who took land from both Poland and Turkey?
Catherine the 2nd the Great
Who authorized a new translation of the English Bible in 1611?
James the 1st
Who was the arrogant king whose refusal to work with Parliament led to his beheading?
Charles the 1st
Who called himself the “Lord protector”, ruled with deep religious convictions?
Oliver Cromwell
Who was the “merry monarch”?
Charles the 2nd
Who was disposed by his daughter and son-in-law in the Glorious Revolution?
King James II
Who signed the English Bill of Rights?
William and Mary
Who is the prime minister of Great Britain today?
Keir Starmer
What was the name of the extravagant Palace built Louie the 14th?
Palace of Versailles
What country is known for the greatest absolute ruler?
France
What country is known for militarism?
Prussia
What Empire is known for great ethnic diversity?
Austria
What country is known for its greatest pursuit of seaports?
Russia
What country absolutism checked?
England
What country did the Great Awakening happen?
United States
Who created the laws of gravity?
Isaac Newton
Who created flat maps?
Gerhardus Mercator
Who said as pressure increases, volume decreases?
Robert Boyle
Who improved the telescope?
Galileo
Who improved the microscope?
Anton vesalius
Who worked on cadavers and anatomy?
Edward Jenner
Who created the heliocentric theory?
Copernicus
Who created the laws of conservation of matter?
Lavoisier
Who believed in inductive reasoning?
Francis Bacon reasoning from specific cases to a general conclusion
What is the belief that God is in everything?
Pantheism
What theory means that all knowledge comes from experience?
Blank tablet Theory
Who is the outspoken critic of leaders?
Voltaire
Who was the encyclopedia editor?
Diderot
Who believes in the separation of powers?
Montesquieu
Who believes in the social contract theory?
John Locke
Who believed in deductive reasoning I think therefore I am?
Renee Descartes
Who believes in emotions?
Jean jacque rousseit
Who is the Billy Graham of the spiritual awakening?
George Whitefield
Who wrote sinners in the hands of an Angry God?
Jonathan Edwards
Who was the hymn Rider and famous brother Christ is the Lord risen today and can it be?
Charles Wesley
Who wrote Joy to the World and When I Survey the Wondrous Cross?
Isaac Watts
Who began Methodist denomination?
John Wesley
Who begin the Wesleyan domination?
John Wesley and Charles Wesley
What was the name of the German religious movement in the 17th century?
Pietism
Who made The Marriage of Figaro and was a classical composer?
Mozart
Who made Guilvers travel?
Jonathan Swift
Who was the Baroque painter who developed the use of chiaroscuro?
Rembrandt
Who was the baroque musician, developed oratorios, the messiah?
Handel
Who made mannerism art?
El Greco
Who wrote social comedies?
Moliere
Who was the father of Symphony?
Joseph Hayden
Who was the historian who blamed Christians for the fall of Rome?
Edward Gibbon
What word means armed forces of the center of national interest?
Militarism
What is the term for Russian emperor?
Czar
What is the study of stars plants?
Astronomy
What word means reasoning from specific cases to a general conclusion?
Inductive reasoning
What word means the belief that God is in everything?
Pantheism
What word means all knowledge comes from experience and experience makes us good or bad?
Empiricism
What word means using comedy and sarcasm too ridiculous folly and vice?
Satire
What is a belief that the Earth is the center of the universe?
Geocentric theory
What is the belief if the government doesn’t preserve life liberty and property of the people people have the right to change their government?
Social contract
What word means reasoning from a simple premise to a more complex conclusion?
Deductive reasoning
What word means social critics and reformers who believed man could and should solve his own problems?
Philosophe
What word means the belief that God is just a Master Clock Winder?
Deism
What word means unnatural color is distorted and exaggerated figures?
Mannerism
What word means feminine refined or elegant?
Rococo
What word means orderly clam formal and without emotion?
Enlightenment
What word means Grand Dynamic and emotional?
Baroque
