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| a king with total control power |
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| idea that king gets his power from god so he deserves to be king. |
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| economic policy of exporting |
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| Louis waged three major wars and revoked (1685) the Edict of Nantes, causing thousands of Huguenots to leave France. |
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| His reign, the longest in French history, was characterized by a magnificent court, the expansion of French influence in Europe, and the establishment of overseas colonies. |
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| estates general Huguenots |
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| The first national assembly of representatives of the three estates met at Notre-Dame in Paris on April 10, 1302, to discuss the conflict between Philip IV (the Fair) and Pope Boniface VIII. |
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| the highest legislature, consisting of the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons. |
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| Oliver Cromwell Lord protector |
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| 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. |
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| the war (1642–46) between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists, sometimes extended to include the events of the period 1646–48. |
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| a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. |
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| Cavalier means snobby. Someone who is cavalier has a bad attitude and regards other people as inferior. |
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| The Glorious Revolution was the last genuine revolution in Britain. Because there was little armed resistance in England to William and Mary, the revolution is also called the Bloodless Revolution. |
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| Our student bill of rights would include the right to dress as we please. 4. an English statute of 1689 confirming, with minor changes, the Declaration of Rights, declaring the rights and liberties of the subjects and settling the succession in William III and Mary II. Examples from the Web for Bill of Rights Expand. |
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| Constitutional monarchy is a form of government in which a king or queen acts as Head of State. The ability to make and pass legislation resides with an elected Parliament, not with the Monarch. |
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| a ruler who has absolute power. |
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| Russian History. a member of the old nobility of Russia, before Peter the Great made rank dependent on state service |
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| Westernization or Westernisation (see spelling differences), also Europeanization/Europeanisation or occidentalization/occidentalisation (from the Occident, meaning the Western world |
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| a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another |
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| the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened. |
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| In political philosophy, the general will (French: volonté générale) is the will of the people as a whole. The term was made famous by 18th-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. |
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| natural rights definition. Rights that people supposedly have under natural law. The Declaration of Independence of the United States lists life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as natural rights. |
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| the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members. |
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| Enlightened despotism, also called benevolent despotism, a form of government in the 18th century in which absolute monarchs pursued legal, social, and educational reforms inspired by the Enlightenment. |
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