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HIEU 425 Midterm questionsand answers 2025-2026
Parlements - answer 18 Regional Law Courts (Paris the most powerful)
Decrees only became laws when recorded by the parlements
Nobles inherited their seats
Noble Privileges - answer Holding court to settle legal disputes.
Ownership of village mills and ovens.
Wearing a sword.
Having their coats of arms on their carriages.
Intermediate Powers - answer This phrase referred to the power in France
and the rest of ancien régime Europe wielded by the aristocracy and high
clergy through parlements, assemblies, etc., based on law and tradition.
Nobles saw themselves as the safeguards of liberty
Absolute Monarchy - answer The King is subject only to god.
"Absolute" - a legal term meaning that the exercise of royal power was not
subject to any other person or entity.
Local nobles tried to limit national power.
Louis XIV - answer (1638-1715) Known as the Sun King, he was an
absolute monarch that completely controlled France. One of his greatest
accomplishments was the building of the palace at Versailles.
Versailles - answer Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to
glorify his rule and subdue and monitor the nobility.
, Intendents - answer Government agents used by Louis XIV who collected
taxes and administered justice.
Lettre de Cachet - answer an order for arrest and imprisonment without
trial issued by the king.
The Bourgeoisie - answer French upper level of the Third Estate. The
Middle Class. Most of the wealth at the time was concentrated here.
Commercial Revolution - answer A dramatic change in the economy of
Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. It is characterized by an increase in
towns and trade, the use of banks and credit, and the establishment of
guilds to regulate quality and price.
Scientific Revolution - answer Scientists made discoveries in physics,
astronomy, biology, chemistry, and geology astronomy, biology, chemistry,
and geology which led to a fundamental shift in Western which led to a
fundamental shift in Western thought and drastically altered previous
views thought and drastically altered previous views of the universe.
Voltaire - answer (1694-1778) French philosopher. He believed that
freedom of speech was the best weapon against bad government. He also
spoke out against the corruption of the French government, and the
intolerance of the Catholic Church.
Charles de Montesquieu - answer French philosopher and noble who sat on
the parlement at Bordeaux. He analyzed various systems of government,
concluding that the primary government, concluding that the primary
moral criterion of any political system is moral criterion of any political
system is how well it secures political liberty.
Denis Diderot - answer Philosopher who edited a book called the
Encyclopedia which was banned by the French king and pope.It was also
an anthology of "enlightened" opinions on politics, philosophy, and
opinions on politics, philosophy, and religion.
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