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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.
absolute monarch
the doctrine that a monarch derives his or her power directly from a deity
divine right
(5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715) ruled as King of France
louis XIV
Louis XIV built this to symbolize his power.
palace of versailles
Louis XIV called himself this
sun king
skillfully employed the limited Prussian resources to make his kingdom the most powerful German state; emphasized large standing army
frederick the great
With his reign, Russia became a fully autocratic state.
ivan IV
a russian ruler
czar
rulers of Russia from 1613 until the Russian Revolution of February 1917.
romanov dynasty
He centralised government, modernised the army, created a navy and increased the subjugation and subjection of the peasants; westernized Russia
Peter the Great
ceased being the capital in 1918 after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
St. Petersburg
a legal proceeding in which a jury either makes a decision or makes findings of fact which are then applied by a judge
Jury Trial
Limited Power of The King
Magna Carta
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.
Common Law
Divine Right, King of England
James I
famously engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England.
Charles I
were a group of people who grew discontent in the Church of England and worked towards religious, moral and societal reforms.
Puritan
supported king during the English civil war.
Cavaliers
against king, lead by oliver cromwell
Roundheads
lead the roundheads against the king of england, later became the dictator of england
Oliver Cromwell
was popularly known as the Merrie Monarch He agreed to rule as a constitutional monarch
Carles II
It protects the individual from harming him or herself, or from being harmed by the judicial system.
Habeas Corpus
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.
Constitutional Monarch
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.
James II
the overthrow of King James II of England
Glorious Revolution
the New King and Queen of England after the Glorious Revolution. They agreed to Sign the Bill of Rights.
William & Mary
An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling
the Succession of the Crown
English Bill of righs
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.
Enlightenment
His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.
Thomas Hobbes
wrote two treateses on government
John Locke
Wrote 'Spirit of Laws'
Montesquieu
Wrote the Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
had the idea of seperation of church and state
Voltaire
wrote declaration of independence
Thomas Jefferson
Baroque composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
classical composer
Wolfgang Mozart
Romantic painter
Eugene Delacroix
wrote Don Quijote
Miguel de Cervantes