AIM: What is Absolutism?

Do Now: How would your life change if we had a King/Queen in charge of the United States?

Would your life be better or worse with a King?

• Absolute Monarch – A king or queen who has unlimited power and seeks

to control all aspects of society.

• Centralize (To bring under one’s control) power.

• Where did these Kings/Queens believe they received their power from?

– GOD

– DIVINE RIGHT – Monarchs get their right to rule from God.

– “Sun King” – France should revolve around Louis XIV

– “I am the state.”

• PRIMARY SOURCES / READING

• Define sovereign:

• What does this quote mean?

•Mr. Formato’s summer house?

-No, this is VERSAILLES

Hall of Mirrors

2. What is the point the cartoonist is trying to make?

1. Who do the two men in the cartoon represent?

Theology – study of religion/God

Assessment• “God hath power to create or

destroy, make or unmake, at his pleasure; to give life or send death; to judge…and to be judged (by) none…And the like power have kings;…”

Which idea is described by this passage?

1 theory of divine right 2 enlightened despotism 3 Social Darwinism 4 constitutional monarchy

Which type of government is shown in the cartoon? 

                                                   

                     1.a socialist republic 2.an absolute monarchy 3.a communist dictatorship 4.a democracy

Write a paragraph explaining what the characteristics of an

absolute ruler are. Consider the following:

• Attitude • Actions/Behaviors• Polices (internal/external)• Goals• How are the people treated?• How is the rest of the government affected?