Copy of Absolutism Quiz (9/25/2024)

Creating a strong professional army

Limiting influence of nobility and clergy

Empowerment of the peasants

Consolidation of power under the king or queen

By arguing they had won it through combat.

By arguing that their wealth entitled them to it.

By arguing it came from a social contract with their citizens.

By arguing it came from God.

France intervened and dethroned Charles I.

The Anglican clergy were too powerful for the kings to overcome.

Parliament held significant power and resisted attempts by monarchs to rule alone.

England's empire to was too large for a single person to rule.

Catherine the Great builds a new capital in eastern Russia

Austria and Prussia ally to defeat the Russians

Peter the Great opens new sea trade routes to western Europe

Russia expands under both Catherine and Peter

The newly independent Netherlands became the most powerful country in Europe.

England emerged with an absolute monarchy.

Austria dethroned the French Bourbons and became the strongest nation.

France became the dominant power at Austria's expense.

Being limited by a legislative body was unthinkable to the absolutists.

Further suppressing the peasant classes was seen as inhumane.

The integration of church and state threatened the power of Calvinist denominations.

Appointing an official to lead government bureaucracy was highly unusual.

Increasing Russian military might

Reintegrating with the Catholic Church

Modernizing the Russian school system

Defending Russia's many warm-water ports

The German states are officially divided

The Thirty Years' War begins

The Swiss Federation is absorbed by France

The power of the Habsburgs increases

Thirty Years' War

English Civil War

War of the Austrian Succession

French and Indian War?

An extremely well-trained and professional army

Increasingly tyrannical absolute monarchs

A world-class navy

Quick-witted and skilled diplomats

James I tried to give Parliament more control than it wanted.

Elizabeth tried to re-enter the Catholic Church before her death.

The Stuart family, not used to the traditions of Parliament, wanted to rule England absolutely.

England fell under a royal union with French king Louis XIV.

It provided Catholics with religious freedoms

It forced all French Catholics to move to Canada.

It created a separate state in Gascony for French Protestants

It provided Huguenots with religious freedoms

People had grown extremely discontent under the harsh Puritan rules of the Commonwealth.

Parliament had come around to the idea of an absolute monarch.

Parliament had been abolished.

Charles had converted to Anglicanism.

After a long and bloody struggle, Mary and William of Orange took the English throne.

Mary and William of Orange became the English monarchs without bloodshed.

James II was captured, tried, and executed publicly.

Parliament arrested Charles I and abolished the monarchy.

He successfully conquered Moscow.

He funded the first mission to the Moon.

The Pope named him such in a ceremony following the Thirty Years' War.

He held so much power he was functionally the "center" of France.