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Who was the epitome of an absolute ruler?

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Louis XIV

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Who reigned in France for 70 years

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Louis XIV

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Who was the “Sun King” that said, “L’etat, c’est moi” (I am the state)

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Louis XIV

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Means “government by men who sit at desks”

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Bureaucracy

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Ruled for Louis XIV until he was older.

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Cardinal Mazarin

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What Palace did Louis XIV build to keep the aristocracy busy?

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Palace of Versailles

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Expect unconditional obedience to their authority

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Authoritarian kings

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Rule every aspect of people’s lives

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Totalitarian

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Louis’s minister of France

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Jean Baptiste Colbert

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“Father of New France” Founder of Quebec

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Samuel de Champlain

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1st permanent French colony

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Quebec

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Two explorers who explored “New France”

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Jean Marquette and Louis Joliet

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Sailed down the Mississippi River and claimed the land

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Robert Cavalier de la Salle

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What war was when the League of Augsburg fought France?

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War of the League of Augsburg

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Treaty that ended the War of the league of Augsburg

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Treaty of Ruswick

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Most costly war over the throne of Sapin

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War of the Spanish Succession

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Treaty that ended the War of the Spanish Succession

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Treaty of Utrecht

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The most notable victory against the French

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Battle of Blenheim

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“Father of the Enlightment” elevated rationalism

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Voltaire

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The belief that man’s reason is sole criterion for truth

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Rationalism

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“Father of French Romanticism”

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Editor of the Encyclopedia

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Denis Diderot

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The official representative body of France

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The National Assembly

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The French Version of Parliment

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The Estates-General

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The system of government and way of life in pre-Revolutionary France

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Old regime

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French Revolution came during his reign

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Louis XVI

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said, “Après moi le deluge”

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Louis XV

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The belief that exalts man’s emotions and imagination as the basis for truth

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Romanticism

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King during the Restored Burbon Monarchy

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Louis XVII

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