1. Page 4 in NB
Read the section labeled: “Absolutism in Europe” and complete a reader’s choice for that heading.
The reading is on your desk

2. Absolutism and Enlightenment
EQ: How did the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment question the power of Kings?

3. Feudalism to Absolute Power
Decline of Feudalism:
Bubonic Plague (black death)
100 Year War
Weakened power of Nobles
Less population=less workers
Kings paid for their own armies with taxes

4. Louis XIV & Elizabeth I
Divine Right Weakened nobles and parliaments Lived grand styles Increased the arts Increased military power Little say from commoners

5. Scientific Revolution
era of questioning ideas & Authority
Ideas based on Greek philosophers and church
Heliocentric theory: earth centered-universe
Geocentric theory: sun-centered universe
Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton
Renaissance, reformation, scientific revolution, enlightenment

6. Enlightenment
Enlightenment: An intellectual movement that challenged the “status quo (the way things were).”
Focused on reason and science to prove it’s theories.
Spread through books/pamphlets.
Enlightenment was led by Philosophers called Philosophes
writers, professors, journalist, economist and etc.
mostly wealthy or from the middle class.
The ideas of the Enlightenment
influenced many Revolutions
(England, American, French, & etc)