UNIT 5 COPY

Question 1

What is an absolute monarch?

Answer 1

an all powerful king or queen

Question 2

absolute monarch’s make _____ __ ____

Answer 2

all the laws

Question 3

absolute monarch’s were not _____ __ ___ ____

Answer 3

subject to the laws

Question 4

Monarchs believe that they derived their ______ __ _____ directly from ___

Answer 4

right to rule, God

Question 5

How did the monarchs get all the wealth?

• by seizing ____ ________ in the ___ _____ and far east

Answer 5

new territories, new world

Question 6

How did the monarchs get all the wealth?

• expanding ____ overseas and within Europe

Answer 6

trade

Question 7

How did the monarchs get all the wealth?

• ________ the growing wealth of their people

Answer 7

taxing

Question 8

What was the monarchs wealth used for?

• They used their wealth to build ______, _____ ____

Answer 8

large, permanent armies

Question 9

Monarchs:
Phillip II

Answer 9

• from spain

Question 10

Monarchs:
Elizabeth I

Answer 10

• from england
• daughter of Henry the 8th

Question 11

Monarchs:
Louis XIV

Answer 11

• from france
• called him the sun king
• believed in divine rights of kings
• built palace at Versailles

Question 12

Monarchs:
Frederick the Great

Answer 12

• from Prussia

Question 13

Monarchs:
Maria Theresa

Answer 13

• from austria
• enlightened despot
• had 16 children including Marie Antoinette

Question 14

Monarchs:
Peter the Great

Answer 14

• from russia
• st. petersburg

Question 15

Monarchs:
Catherine the great

Answer 15

• from russia
• pursued legal, social, and educational, reforms inspired by then enlightenment

Question 16

Monarchs:
Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 16

• enlightenment thinker

Question 17

what was the most important invention of the late middle ages?

Answer 17

printing press

Question 18

what did they call this system?

Answer 18

ptolemaic system

Question 19

what did copernicus say a more accurate system of the universe was?

Answer 19

that the sun is the center of the universe, not the earth

Question 20

who developed the scientific method?

Answer 20

Francis Bacon

Question 21

what did Bacon believe was the best way to learn about nature?

Answer 21

knowledge achieved from observations

Question 22

What is the Enlightenment?
- Change in _______ of _______ Europeans in the 1600s

Answer 22

outlook/thinking, educated

Question 23

What is the Enlightenment?
- wanted to examine _____ ____ using _____

Answer 23

human life, reason

Question 24

Enlightenment Philosophers:
John Locke

Answer 24

• Born in England
• Disagreed with dictatorship (absolute monarchies)
• disagreed with the divine rights of kings
• Believed unjust rules could be forced from power
  MOST FAMOUS BELIEF
• Natural rights of people: life, liberty, property

Question 25

Enlightenment Philosophers: Montesquieu

Answer 25

- checks and balances -believed in rights for the individual citizen - created the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive branches

Question 26

Enlightenment Philosophers: Thomas Hobbes

Answer 26

- social contract - believed that humans were naturally cruel, selfish, and greedy

Question 27

Enlightenment Philosophers: Voltaire

Answer 27

- free speech

Question 28

Enlightenment Philosophers: Rousseau

Answer 28

- from switzerland

Question 29

Three Ring Government: Who is the executive branch and what article of confederation belongs with it?

Answer 29

The president, article 2

Question 30

Three Ring Government: Who is the Legislative branch and what article of confederation belongs with it?

Answer 30

Congress - house of representatives & the Senate Article 1

Question 31

Three Ring Government: Who is the Judicial branch and what article of confederation belongs with it?

Answer 31

Surpreme court, Article 3

Question 32

French Revolution: what two issues lead to the French Revolution?

Answer 32

Political and economic issues

Question 33

French Revolution: Who makes up the first estate?

Answer 33

The clergy of the roman catholic church

Question 34

French Revolution: Who makes up the second estate?

Answer 34

rich nobles

Question 35

French Revolution: Who makes up the third estate?

Answer 35

poor peasants through well educated middle class

Question 36

the third estate formed a new _______ _______ to make for the french people

Answer 36

National assembly

Question 37

The national assembly wrote their revolutionary ideals in the _________ ___ _____ ______ ___ _____ ______

Answer 37

Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen

Question 38

what was the prison that french citizens raided for weapons

Answer 38

Bastille

Question 39

From 1793 to 1794 Robespierre ______ 40,000 _______. this era is know as the _____ __ ______

Answer 39

executed, "traitors", reign of terror