Absolutism Matching exercise

Match the items on the left to the items on the right.

A. Divine Right B. Cromwell C. French Classicism D. Richelieu E. Louis XIV

F. Mercantilism G. Colbert H. Locke I. Constitutionalism J. Junkers

K. Fronde L. Diggers and Levellers M. Peter the Great N. Peace of Utrecht O. Hobbes P. Bill of Rights Q. Sun King R. Absolutism S. James I

T. Frederick William U. Test Act V. Racine W. Restoration X. Hohenzollern Y. War of Austrian Succession

1. _____ Conflict over rival claims to the Habsburg throne

2. _____Prussian landed aristocracy

3. _____German royal family

4. _____The "Great Elector"

5. _____Sovereignty embodied in the ruler

6. _____Civil war in France during the reign of Louis XIII

7. _____Louis XIV's Controller of Finance

8. _____Established absolutism for Louis XIII

9. _____Louis XIV

10. _____Government economic policies for the regulation of the state

11. _____Writer who analyzed the power of love

12. _____Created Versailles

13. _____ Limitation of government by law

14. _____ Art and literature advanced under Louis XIV

15. _____Lord Protector of England

16. _____Restored the English monarchy to Charles II

17. _____Author of Leviathan

18. _____Marked the end of French expansionst policy

19. _____Belief that a monarch's power is derived from God

20. _____Radical groups in England who called for the abolition of private property

21. _____Declared sovereignty resides with Parliament

22. _____First Stuart monarch

23. _____Prohibited Catholics from holding political office

24. _____Political theorist who defended the Glorious Revolution

25. _____Romanov czar who westernized Russia

Answers:

1.Y 2. S 3.X 4.T 5.R 6. K 7. G 8. D 9. Q 10. F 11. V 12. E

13. I 14. C 15. B 16. W 17. O 18. N 19. A 20. L 21. P 22. S 23.U 24. H

25. M