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a monarchical form of government where the king or queen has absolute power over all aspects of his/her subjects' lives.
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absolute monarch
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the doctrine that a monarch derives his or her power directly from a deity
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divine right
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(5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715) ruled as King of France
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louis XIV
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Louis XIV built this to symbolize his power.
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palace of versailles
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Louis XIV called himself this
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sun king
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skillfully employed the limited Prussian resources to make his kingdom the most powerful German state; emphasized large standing army
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frederick the great
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With his reign, Russia became a fully autocratic state.
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ivan IV
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a russian ruler
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czar
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rulers of Russia from 1613 until the Russian Revolution of February 1917.
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romanov dynasty
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He centralised government, modernised the army, created a navy and increased the subjugation and subjection of the peasants; westernized Russia
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Peter the Great
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ceased being the capital in 1918 after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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St. Petersburg
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a legal proceeding in which a jury either makes a decision or makes findings of fact which are then applied by a judge
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Jury Trial
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Limited Power of The King
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Magna Carta
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refers to law and the corresponding legal system developed through decisions of courts and similar tribunals (called case law), rather than through legislative statutes or executive action.
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Common Law
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Divine Right, King of England
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James I
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famously engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England.
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Charles I
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were a group of people who grew discontent in the Church of England and worked towards religious, moral and societal reforms.
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Puritan
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supported king during the English civil war.
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Cavaliers
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against king, lead by oliver cromwell
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Roundheads
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lead the roundheads against the king of england, later became the dictator of england
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Oliver Cromwell
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was popularly known as the Merrie Monarch He agreed to rule as a constitutional monarch
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Carles II
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It protects the individual from harming him or herself, or from being harmed by the judicial system.
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Habeas Corpus
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form of constitutional government, where either an elected or hereditary monarch is the head of state, unlike in an absolute monarchy, where in the king or the queen is the sole source of political power, as he or she is not legally bound by the constitution.
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Constitutional Monarch
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Some of this king's subjects were unhappy with his belief in absolute monarchy and opposed his religious policies, leading a group of them to depose him in the Glorious Revolution.
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James II
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the overthrow of King James II of England
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Glorious Revolution
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the New King and Queen of England after the Glorious Revolution. They agreed to Sign the Bill of Rights.
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William & Mary
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An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling
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English Bill of righs
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is a term used to describe a time in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the eighteenth century, in which reason was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for authority.
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Enlightenment
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His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.
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Thomas Hobbes
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wrote two treateses on government
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John Locke
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Wrote 'Spirit of Laws'
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Montesquieu
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Wrote the Social Contract
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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had the idea of seperation of church and state
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Voltaire
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wrote declaration of independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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Baroque composer
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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classical composer
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Wolfgang Mozart
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Romantic painter
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Eugene Delacroix
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wrote Don Quijote
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Miguel de Cervantes
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