Unit 3 Presentation

Question 1

What is bureaucracy?

Answer 1

A system of government where appointed officials are responsible for ensuring that laws are being followed.

Question 2

What does it mean to legitimize power?

Answer 2

The methods a ruler uses to validate their right to power.

Question 3

Define enlightened absolutism.

Answer 3

A type of absolutism where the general population gives the power.

Question 4

List the causes of absolutism.

Answer 4

• End of the Bubonic Plague
• End of the Middle Ages
• End of the Hundred Years War
• Increase in literacy rates
• Gutenberg Printing Press

Question 5

What characterized the Middle Ages?

Answer 5

• Medieval periods
• Crusades from the church to reclaim the holy land from Muslims
• Feudalism

Question 6

What was the Hundred Years War?

Answer 6

A battle between France and England over territorial disputes that led to the decline of feudalism.

Question 7

How did the Hundred Years War contribute to the decline of feudalism?

Answer 7

It led to the rise of centralized monarchies and a sense of national unity and identity.

Question 8

How did increased literacy rates contribute to absolutism?

Answer 8

• Monarchies needed educated bureaucrats to manage expanding governments
• Establishments of schools/educational institutions
• Churches encouraged reading of sacred texts like the Bible

Question 9

What role did taxes play in the rise of absolutism?

Answer 9

Tax collectors provided money for architecture, armies, weapons, and public services.

Question 10

What does the acronym RAT stand for in the context of absolutism?

Answer 10

Religion, Armies, Taxes.

Question 11

The Bubonic Plague

Answer 11

-contagiously spread throughout the Silk Road
-caused by fleas
-killed 1/3 of Europe