Unit 5: Absolutism & Enlightenment

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What English monarch was beheaded?

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What English monarch was beheaded?

Charles I

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How was Thomas Hobbes' idea different from other Enlightenment thinkers?

Other thinkers advocated for individual rights, whereas Hobbes argued for an absolute monarchy and believed humans to be inherently selfish/brutish

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How were Enlightenment ideas shown in the United States government?

US Constitution/Bill of Rights: individual liberties, separation of powers, government based on popular sovereignty

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How did Peter the Great Westernize Russia?

  • Introduced Western tech/customs

  • Modernizing military

  • St. Petersburg as “Window to the West”

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Sun King

Louis XVI (chose sun as personal emblem, center of nation and has absolute power)

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Versailles

Louis XIV used Versailles to control nobility/display wealth

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