1. Quaestio: What positive and negative effects did absolute rule have in Europe and around the world? Nunc Agenda: What does it mean to be an absolute ruler? Were Ottoman Sultans absolute rulers?

5. Absolute Rulers
Working together in your groups, create a skit portraying the way in which your assigned ruler demonstrated absolutist qualities.
Make sure that the content of your skit covers ALL of the homework questions and answers.
Skit must be no longer than five minutes.
While watching the skit, other groups will attempt to answer the questions of the performing group, and will have a chance to ask for clarification at the end.

6. Louis XIV

9. Palace of Versailles

10. Palace of Versailles

11. Palace of Versailles

12. Palace of Versailles

13. Palace of Versailles

14. Palace of Versailles

15. Palace of Versailles

16. Huguenots

17. Edict of Nantes REVOKED

18. He almost united the Kingdoms of France and Spain.

19. Peter the Great

23. Boyars = Russian Nobles

28. Stuart Kings James I & Charles I

29. English Civil War

30. Oliver Cromwell and the Republican Commonwealth

31. Restoration of the Stuart Monarchy and the Anglican Church

32. New Monarchs: William and Mary
Glorious Revolution
New Monarchs: William and Mary

33. English Bill of Rights
“That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without the consent of parliament, is illegal... That the election of members of parliament ought to be free... That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.” —English Bill of Rights, passed by Parliament, 1689