5 Written Questions

1. Written by English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, maintained that sovereignty is ultimately derived from the people, who transfer it to the monarchy by implicit contract.
2. (1610-1643) influenced by Richelieu to exult French monarchy as embodiment of French state. Established absolute rule.
3. Enlightened ruler. Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great.
4. Rousseau, suggestions in reforming the political system and modeled after the Greek polis.
5. Limitation of government by law, developed in times of absolutism.

5 Matching Questions

1. Bill of Rights
2. Romanovs
3. Second Treatise of Government
4. Voltaire
5. Nicholas Poussin

1. a French, perhaps greatest Enlightenment thinker. Deist. Mixed glorification and reason with an appeal for better individuals and institutions. Wrote Candide. Believed enlightened despot best form of government.
2. b 1689, no law can be suspended by the king; no taxes raised; no army maintained except by parliamentary consent. Established after The Glorious Revolution.
3. c Russian dynasty, started with Michael Romanov after the Time of Troubles and lasted until the revolution of 1917 and the execution of Nicholas II.
4. d (1690) Written by Locke, Government created to protect life, liberty, and property.
5. e French classical painter who painted the Rape of the Sabine Women, known as the greatest French painter of the 17th century.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Land owning aristocracy in early Russia.
   1. Voltaire
   2. Magyars
   3. Boyars
   4. Romanovs
2. Art style that focuses on pastels, ornate interiors, and sentmental portraits.
   1. Rococo
   2. Muscovy
   3. Romanovs
   4. Fronde
3. French philosopher. Wrote "The Spirit of Laws". Said "Power checks power". Separation of powers. Form of government varies according to climate.
   1. Dvorianie
   2. Louis XIII
   3. Voltaire
   4. Montesquieu
4. Believed people were born like blank slates and the environment shapes development, (tabula rasa). Wrote Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and Second Treatise of Government.
   1. John Locke
   2. Rococo
   3. Romanovs
   4. Candide
5. Economic theory of maintaining balance of exports and imports. The opposite of socialism and communism.
   1. Capitalism
   2. Mercantilism
   3. Deism
   4. Candide

5 True/False Questions

1. Jean-Baptiste Colbert → an advisor to Louis XIV who proved himself a financial genius who managed the entire royal administration. Proposed mercantilism as best policy for economy.

   True        False

2. Maria Theresa → Land-owning aristocracy in Hungary.

   True        False

3. New Model Army → philosophy that a state's strength depends upon it's wealth

   True        False

4. Royal Society of London → (1748) Montesquieu, about separation of powers.

   True        False

5. Petition of Rights → (1628) Limited the power of Charles I of England. a) could not declare martial law; b) could not collect taxes; c) could not imprison people without cause; d) soldiers could not be housed without consent.

   True        False