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Unit 7
Enlightenment and Revolutions
Question | Answer |
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Absolute Ruler | A ruler who has largely unchecked power |
Divine Right | A person (monarchs) who claimed that God had places them on the throne and that they were responsible only to God not to nobles, to a church, or to a Parliament |
King Louis XIV | King of France. He self proclaimed himself as the "Sun King". He also has the Palace of Versailles built. |
Ivan the Terrible | First Tsar of Russia. Created the first secret police force in Russia to hunt down and execute nobles who opposed his rule. But he reformed the Orthodox Christian Church in Russia. |
Peter the Great | |
Charles I | King of England who started the English Civil War by violating the Magna Carta and dissolving Parliament. |
King George III | |
The English Civil War | |
The Roundheads | |
The Cavaliers | |
The Restoration of the Monarchy | |
The Glorious Revolution | |
The English Bill of Rights | |
Thomas Hobbes | |
The Leviathan | |
John Locke | |
Two Treaties on Government | |
Baron de Montesquieu | |
In the Spirit of Laws | |
Jean-Jacques | |
The Social Contract | |
Voltaire | |
The American Revoultion | |
The French Revolution | |
The Storming of the Bastille | |
Louis XVI | |
The Reign of Terror | |
Maximillian Robespierre | |
Napoleon | |
Napoleonic Code |