Absolutism (A+ Graded)

Czar correct answers A Russian emperor Boyar correct answers Land owning aristocracy in early Russia. Puritans correct answers A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay. Cavaliars correct answers Su...

absolutism correct answers belief in the right to rule through divine right complete authority over all aspects of government 1 person/king/queen=all powerful ex: France, Spain, Russia, Austria, Prussia king>power>parliament Limited Monarchy correct answers monarch is limited in power b...

Absolute Monarch--Divine Right correct answers a ruler with complete authority over the government; belief that authority to rule comes directly from God Phillip II correct answers Son of Charles V King of Spain ruled 42 yrs. hardworking, devout, gthen Catholic Church; made his power absolute;Eli...

Absolutism correct answers the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government What century did Absolutism really begin? correct answers around the 1500 century Examples of Absolutism correct answers Louis the 14th, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great Goal of the monarchs when cre...

Absolutism: Defined correct answers - Term defined in the 19th century - previous centuries didn't use it - Form of government in which the monarch has absolute power among his or her people Absolutism: Defined in detail correct answers - Unrestricted power over the sovereign state and its peop...

Define Absolutism correct answers A government in which the leader has unlimited power Long Term causes of Absolutism correct answers Fall of Feudalism, decline in the authority of the Church, and growth of nation states Feudalism correct answers A military and political system based on the ho...

King James I correct answers I was called "the wisest fool in Christendom" for my inability to learn from the mistakes of my ancestors in relation to divine right monarchy Cardinal Richelieu correct answers I argued that while religion was important, the state is above everything, and that reli...

Age of Absolutism correct answers An era starting in the late 16th Century lasting through the early 18th Century in Europe where countries were predominantly ruled by extremely powerful monarchs. The centralized rule was largely caused by the economic, political, and religious needs caused by the A...

Seventeenth-century European population correct answers fluctuated narrowly, constrained by famines and diseases The witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries correct answers were often directed against old single women Recent scholarship cites which of the following reasons for t...