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3. BELLWORK 12/10 How did the Renaissance change knowledge and education?
How did the government change during Reformation?
What is an absolute monarchy? Give two examples of absolute monarchs who ruled during the period. ( )
What is philosophy? What might a philosopher from the Renaissance write about?
THINKER: What is a thesis statement? Create your own thesis statement for one of the following:
Why is Mrs. Mattia awesome
Your favorite sport and why it is your favorite
Your favorite band and why it is your favorite

4. Politics during the Renaissance
Absolute monarchs and the philosophers that challenged them

5. Absolute Monarchies
In the 1500’s and 1600’s, European monarchs sought to create powerful kingdoms in which they could command the complete loyalty of all their subjects.
This form of government, known as absolutism, placed absolute, or unlimited, power in the monarch and his/her advisers.
The strength of absolutism rested on divine right – the political idea that monarchs receive their power directly from God and are responsible to God alone for their actions.
An absolute monarchy, it was reasoned, would unify diverse peoples and bring greater efficiency and control.

6. Spain – Philip II 6

7. England – Elizabeth I 7

8. France - Louis XIV 8

10. Louis XIV 10

12. Russia - Peter the Great12

13. Read Pages
Write a brief summary of the absolute monarchs during the Reformation/Enlightenment periods.
Elizabeth I
Philip II
Louis XIV
Peter the Great