ABSOLUTISM

England, France, and Russia

Absolutism - A system in which a ruler holds total, or absolute, power.

USOBALET YMNRCOAH Unlimited power in the hands of the king and his advisors. The ruler’s power was not limited by having to

consult with nobles, common people, or their representatives.

EIIVND TRHIG The political idea that monarchs receive their power directly from God and are responsible only to God for

their actions. This allowed monarchs to go unchallenged by their subjects.

EBAALNC FO RWEPO Each nation helps to keep peace and order by maintaining power that is equal to rival nations.

YDNYAST This is a family that governs a country based on the idea of divine right passed down from one generation to

the next.

ABSOLUTE MONARCHY

DIVINE RIGHT

BALANCE OF POWER

DYNASTY

King Louis XIV the “Sun King”Best example of absolutism in

Europe

Absolute MonarchyOthers want to be involved Parties to distract nobles from

government!

Must Maintain Absolute Power! Creates army of 400,000 Leaves France in major war debt

Ivan IV (the Terrible)First Russian ruler to use the

title Czar (Caesar)

VIDEO – Ivan the Terrible

The Romanov DynastyPeter the Great

Visits the West and expands kingdom

Europeanize Russia

Death of Elizabeth I James I, King of England

Followed by Charles I

Divine Right of Kings

Freedom of ParliamentParliament used to running the

show

Separate body from the king

The king can’t tell them what to do

“The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth; for kings are not only God’s lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God’s throne, but even by God Himself they are called gods…Kings justly gods, for they exercise a…divine power upon earth…God hath power to create or destroy, make or unmake at His pleasure, to give life or send death, to judge and to be judged, nor [are they] accountable to none, to raise low things and to make high things low at His pleasure…And the like power of kings…

King James I of England, 1609

Author?

Subject?

Purpose for writing the document?

Who is writing to?

Main points made?

Religious SpectrumProtestants vs. Catholics

Puritans (English Protestants)Wanted “pure” doctrine

Oliver Cromwell

Political SpectrumCavaliers vs. Roundheads

VS.

VIDEO – The English Civil War,

The Musical

Charles Put on TrialFirst English monarch to be put on

trial

To Charles – trial is ridiculous and illegal - Why?

Executed

Republic Ruled EnglandWho appoints himself at the head?

Military dictator of England

Charles II brought back…but he’s Catholic

Charles II Charles I’s son Living in exile, Invited to return

and be king Converts to Catholicism…dun

dun dun! Brother, James II – Also

Catholic…

The Glorious Revolution Invite William of Orange

(Holland) to be kingWilliam married to Mary,

James II’s Protestant daughter The Declaration of Rights