1. Agenda To Get: To Do: Handout from the back shelf
Organized notebook items
Complete study guide/test resource packet
Quizlet review
EXAM NEXT CLASS! (FRIDAY)

2. Notebook Check Items 1. Absolutism Overview and France
2. Baroque Art/Absolute Rule: Russia
3. Revolutions in England
4. Enlightenment Notes and Scientific Revolution
5. Absolutism Map
If you are making up missing notes DO NOT borrow someone else's; use those fancy pocket computers and go to the following address:
OR, just search…and click on World Civ tab; scroll to the bottom.
broderickvpa.weebly.com

3. Study Guide/Resource Packet
Fill this in using your notes that you have organized
(or you may use the class website to FINISH your notes AND complete the review guide.)
You ARE allowed to use this on exam day (FRIDAY) but only this and only YOURS. Take advantage – fill it in!

4. Absolute Monarch: leader who held all the power within their state
Examples: Peter the Great, Louis XIV, Charles 1st
Divine Right: God created the monarchy and the monarch acted as God’s voice in the state
Causes and effects of absolutism:
Religious and territorial conflicts created fear and uncertainty
The growth of armies to deal with conflicts
Heavy taxes that led to peasant revolts
Rulers regulated religious worship and social gatherings
Rulers increased the size of the courts to look good
Rulers controlled the countries’ economy

5. Peter the Great Russian modernization/westernization
Introduced potatoes which became a staple in diet
Started Russia’s first newspaper
Raised women’s status
Made nobles give up traditional clothes for more westernized clothes
Advanced education by opening up schools of navigation and introducing the sciences and arts
Moved capital to St. Petersburg so they could have a sea port

6. Positives and Negatives of Louis XIV’s reign
Louis XIV - France
Nobles lived with Louis and were totally dependent on him and they were far from home so the intendants had more power
Versailles was a center for the arts, he made everyone like opera and ballet, the purpose of the arts was to glorify the king and show his wealth and power
Positives and Negatives of Louis XIV’s reign
France became the new cultural center of Europe
France was the leader in military
The war and building Versailles left France with lots of debt (no money)
The poor were mad about the taxes and took it out on Louis heirs

7. Jean Baptiste Colbert – mercantilist that wanted France to be wealthy AND self- sufficient
ECW: 1641 parliament passed laws to limit the power of the king and this made the king go against parliament
James II was over thrown by daughter and her husband because he had a Catholic son. Showed Parliament could over throw a king
Constitutional Monarchy: A system of governing in which the king/queen’s power is lessened by rules
Heliocentric theory: sun is the center of the universe and everything orbits around it was created by Copernicus and supported by Galileo

9. DBQ – Artworks of the Absolute Age

10. Document Based Question – DBQ Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp - Rembrandt

11. DBQ Judith Slaying Holofernes – Artemisia Gentileschi

12. Friday (A-Day)
1. Notebook Check – 50 points (if you have not do so already)
2. Exam – Absolutism/Scientific Revolution/Englightenment
Resources located at:
Quizlet Review