The European Ages of Absolutism, The Enlightenment &
The "American Revolution"
Review!
Review: Age of Absolutism, Enlightenment and the American Revolution
Key Humans (matching) – know who they were and where they ruled)
ex. Louis XIV - absolute monarch from Bourbon family, consolidated France with Palace of Versailles
Key Terms (matching and/or multiple choice)
Significant Works:
Key Humans (matching) – know who they were and where they ruled)
ex. Louis XIV - absolute monarch from Bourbon family, consolidated France with Palace of Versailles
- Philip II
- Louis XIV
- Queen Elizabeth (Tutors)
- Charles I (Stuarts)
- Oliver Cromwell
- Maria Theresa
- Frederick the Great
- Peter the Great
- Catherine the Great Joseph II
- Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man
- Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke
- Baron de Montesquieu
- Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Denis Diderot
- Adam Smith
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- King George III
- Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Jefferson
- El Greco
Key Terms (matching and/or multiple choice)
- absolute monarchs
- divine right
- heredity
- Siglo de Oro
- inflation
- Spanish Armada
- Huguenots
- bureaucrats
- Palace of Versailles
- alliances
- balance of power
- Parliament
- Magna Carta
- English Civil War
- Kingless Decade & the Commonwealth
- Glorious Revolution
- Roundheads
- Cavaliers
- political consolidation
- theocracy
- English Bill of Rights
- power of the purse
- constitutions
- limited monarchies
- Thirty Years’ War
- mercenaries
- Peace of Westphalia
- Holy Roman Empire
- Westernization
- Enlightenment
- natural laws
- sociology
- salons
- natural rights
- state of nature
- social contract (not the book, the idea)
- separation of powers
- checks and balances
- freedom of speech
- community rights vs. individual rights
- physiocrats
- laissez faire
- free trade vs tariffs
- the invisible hand
- censorship
- Enlightened Despots
- Tsar/Czar
- Revolt, Rebellion, Revolution and Resistance Movement (coup d’état)
- conservatives
- liberals
- republicans
- ultra-nationalists
- autonomy
- abolitionism
- suffrage
- nationalism
- popular sovereignty
Significant Works:
- Essay on Man
- Leviathan
- Treatises of Government
- The Spirit of Laws
- Encyclopedia
- Discourse on Inequality
- The Social Contract
- Wealth of Nations
- Spain
- Portugal
- France
- United Kingdom [England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland]
- Prussia
- Austria
- Russia
The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas

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The Age of Absolutism
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