1. Absolute Monarchies & the Enlightenment
Unit 4

2. Monarchy
State or nation in which the supreme p ower is held by a monarch, or King or Queen
There are different types of monarchies

3. Divine Right
The idea that God created the monarchy and that the monarch acted as God’s representative on Earth.
Absolute monarchs answered only to God, not to his or her subjects.

4. Spanish Golden Age
During the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain experienced a golden age in the arts and became extremely wealthy because of its new American colonies

5. Tulip Mania
Period in the Dutch Golden Age during which prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637.
For four years, people took out loans and spent all savings on tulip bulbs. When the bulbs lost value, many Dutch families were left with nothing.

6. Louis XIV
Most powerful ruler in French history

7. Versailles
Grand palace built during Louis XIV’s reign, just outside of Paris
Became the center of art and entertainment for the elite at this time.
Estimated to be $2.5 billion dollars in todays dollars, and it took 36,000 people and 6,000 horses to work on the project

8. Thirty Years War

9. Romanov Dynasty

10. Peter the Great

11. Parliament

12. Absolute Monarchy vs. Constitutional Monarchy

13. Scientific Revolution

14. Geocentric vs. Heliocentric Theory

15. Galileo Galilei

16. Philosophy

17. John Locke

18. Isaac Newton

19. Scientific Method

20. Enlightenment

21. Voltaire

22. Salons