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A review of absolutism concepts and examples from 17th and 18th century Europe
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1
The longest war of Louis XIV's reign was
The Dutch War
Nine Years' War
The War of Devolution
The War of the Spanish Succession
2
_____ was Peter the Great's "Window to the West!"
Kiev
Sevastopol
Moscow
St. Petersburg
3
Louis XIV created an unprecedented standing army of ___ men.
50,000
400,000
250,000
100,000
4
The __________ family ruled Prussia for decades.
Bourbon
Hohenzollern
Romanov
Stuart
5
What document was effectively the first written Constitution in Europe?
The Edict of Nantes
The Magna Carta
The English Bill of Rights
The Petition of Right
6
Cardinal ____ was pulling most of the strings when Louis XIV was a boy king.
Mazarin
Richelieu
Richland
Margarine
7
Peter the Great hired ____ to run his revamped Russian Military.
General Patton
General Lafayette
General Gordon
General Cromwell
8
This absolutist state had the first ever compulsory education requirement.
Russia
England
France
Prussia
9
What document limited the power of Charles I and caused him to dissolve Parliament?
The Act of Supremacy
The petition of Right
The Magna Carta
The Toleration Act
10
Louis XIV was determined to weaken the power of the Dutch and _______.
Stuart's
Romanov's
Habsburg's
Tudor's
11
Peter the Great toured Europe to learn from the west. His primary focus was to learn
how to dance like royalty in the west
Prussian military tactics
how to make steel factories
shipbuilding
12
The synod was
a secret police force created by Peter the Great.
a major battle in the Great Northern War
Council of Bishops that answered to Peter
13
Roundheads were supporters of
Parliament and Oliver Cromwell
King James II
Peter the Great
King Chales I
14
To align with the rest of Europe Peter the Great demanded Russia follow
the Gregorian Calendar
the Julian Calendar
the Greek Calendar
15
Cavaliers were supporters of
King Charles I
King Charles II
James II
Parliament and Oliver Cromwell
16
Peter the Great's reign can be summed up by the quest to attain warm water ports and
wild times
wildlife
westernization
17
Charles II of Spain reportedly had extensive disabilities that were the result of
inbreeding
a hunting accident in his youth
wounds suffered in battle
18
The ship-money dispute is an example of
the power struggle between the Stuarts and Parliament
divine right of kings at work under Charles II
absolutism at work in the court of Louis XIV
Cromwell's power as Lord Protector
19
The outcome of Pride's Purge that created the "Rump Parliament" was
Catholics were now welcomed to join Parliament
Oliver Cromwell gained control of Parliamentary action
Charles I was restored to the English throne
Puritans were banished from England
20
To save the Dutch from being overrun by the French ____ ordered the flooding of the country.
William III of Orange
Charles II
Charles I
Elizabeth I
21
____ was the palace and administrative headquarters of Louis XIV.
Escorial
Versailles
Paris
22
Louis XIV was known as the ______ King.
Crumb
Fun
Dumb
Sun
23
A form of government in which all power, sovereignty, is held by a single monarch is called
constitutionalism
subjectivism
parliamentarianism
absolutism
24
Peter the Great eliminated the ________ to reduce the power of the Russian orthodox church.
Pope
Patriarch
Synod
25
_____ believed that the state of nature was "nasty, short, and brutish."
John Locke
Bousset
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire
26
Soon after the execution of Charles I Cromwell named himself
Lord Protector
Tsar
Emperor
King
27
The Treaty of ______ officially brought the War of the Spanish Succession to an end.
Utrecht
Versailles
Paris
Westphalia
28
The savvy British received ____ after the War of the Spanish Succession.
the Canary Islands
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nothing
Gibraltar
29
Louis XIV was determined to keep the ____ Dynasty on the throne in France after his death.
Tudor
Stuart
Habsburg
Bourbon
30
The ____ was a rebellion by the nobility very early in Louis XIV reign.
a la Mode
Streltsy
Fronde
du Monde
31
Under Peter the Great's rule noble rank would be based upon ___ rather than birth or seniority.
Norway
France
Sweden
the Dutch
32
The "poster child" for absolutism in 17th century Europe was
Charles I
Louis XIV
Louis XV
Louis XIII
33
Which of the following was a result of the Glorious Revolution?
Cromwell was removed as Lord Protector
British Monarchs reaffirmed the Divine Right of Kings
the English Bill of Rights was passed
The Stuart Dynasty began their reign as English monarchs
34
In an absolutist state to rebel against the monarch is to rebel against
the parliament
the monarch
the people
god
35
Louis XIV, a devout Catholic, revoked the Edict of Nantes with the Edict of ______ (1685).
Fountainblue
Fontainbleau
Fountaina
Fredonia
36
The belief that the power to rule comes directly from god is known as
digest right
divine right
divulge right
divest right
37
The ____ Campaign was Peter's attempt to gain a warm water port on the Balkan Peninsula.
Azov
Dutch
Northern War
38
The ______ were the Russian nobility.
Streltsy
Orthodox
Boyars
39
Some founding fathers were heavily influenced by his work
Two Treatises of Government
(1689).
Voltaire
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
40
The nobility, that served as officers in the Prussian military, were known as
Streltsy
Boyars
Junkers
Bourgeoisie
41
Louis XIV ________to avoid calling the Estates General.
taxed the nobles
sold offices
robbed nobles
42
The Edict of Nantes (1598) allowed for religious __________ in France.
toleration
persecution
freedom
43
Ultimately, the War of the Spanish Succession was a
victory for Spain
draw
victory for France
victory for the Habsburgs
44
Under Peter the Great's rule noble rank would be based upon ___ rather than birth or seniority.
a fight to the death
paid tribute
merit
45
The War of the Spanish Succession pitted France against
Russia
the Phoenicians
The Grand Alliance
the Ottoman Empire