Unit 5
Absolutism to Revolution, 1500-1900
Chapter 21-Absolute Monarchs in Europe, 1500-1800
1. Define each term and briefly explain its connection to the age of absolutism and
revolution between 1300 and 1700.
a. Philip II
j. Frederick the Great
b. absolute monarch
k. Ivan the Terrible
c. divine right of kings
l. boyar
d. Edict of Nantes
m. westernization
e. Huguenots
n. Charles I
f. skepticism
o. habeas corpus
g. intendant
p. constitutional monarchy
h. Louis XIV
q. cabinet
i. Maria Theresa
2. List three actions that demonstrated that Philip II of Spain saw himself as a
defender of Catholicism.
3. According to the French writer Jean Bodin
why shouldn’t a prince share power with anyone
else? Explain.
4. List two reasons Spain’s economy didn’t
benefitted from the gold and silver from America.
5. List five reasons Philip II of Spain was a
typical absolute monarch.
6. Identify Cardinal Richelieu and list two
ways his actions towards the Huguenots and the
nobility strengthened the monarchy.
7. Why did Louis XIV of France wage war against Europe? How did these wars
against weaker countries backfire?
8. List two strategies Louis XIV used to control the French nobility.
9. List three ways Louis XIV
caused suffering amongst
the French people.
10. What were six results of
the Peace of Westphalia?
11. Describe three steps the
Prussian monarchs took
to become absolute
monarchs.
12. List three differences
between Russia and Western Europe.
13. List five reforms made by Peter the Great in Russia to make the country more
westernized.
14. List the causes, participants, and outcome of the English Civil War.
15. Identify Oliver Cromwell and explain what his rule had in common with an
absolute monarchy.
16. Identify the Glorious
Revolution and two
main things that took
place that made it a
bloodless revolution.
17. Identify the English Bill
of Rights (1689) and
list four ways it limited
the power of the
monarch.