history (1)

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absolutism

when a ruler has complete rule over their people

checks and balances

branches of government to distribute power

divine right of kings

when a King believed his power as ruler was given by God

edict of nantes

a document allowing protestants of France to become equal with Catholics

thirty years war

longest and most destructive war in Europe

louis xiv

sun king, king by divine right

versailles

residence of louis xiv and his family

peter the great

Russian leader went down as a fantastic leader

czar

emperor or king

catherine the great

empress of Russia, overthrew peter

english civil war

parliament vs. royalists fight for freedom

charles I

king of england, scotland and ireland, led the civil war

roundheads

parliaments

cavaliers

royalist

oliver cromwell

english politician who led the army

commonwealth

association whose goal is to maintain peace

charles II

king of scotland

james II

charles younger brother, king of scotland

glorious revolution

chain of events leading to the deposition of james II

william and mary

had joint reignover england, scotland, ireland

thomas hobbes

creator of social contract

john locke

enlightenment thinker “life, liberty, property“

natural rights

rights we were born with

social contract

agreement of our rights in the enlightenment age

age of enlightenment

movement when people were trying to separate from the government

philosophe

meaning “philosopher“ in french, enlightenment thinkers

Baron de Montesquieu 

created separation of powers

voltaire

believed that only an enlightened monarch could bring change

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

philosopher who influenced the age of enlightenment, reconceived the social contract

Mary Wollstonecraft

created the rights of women, was a woman’s activist

salon

a women’s informal education

separation of powers

legislative, executive, judicial

deism

belief in divine right and that everything is given by God

enlightened absolutism

monarchs influenced by enlightenment, which gave them more power