Lesson on Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Aim: What is Absolutism?

Bell Ringer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s1OdnGl7nI  / Journal 71 – List topics covered in class, and covered in this video.

Objectives:

1. Students will compare the development of constitutional monarchy in England with that in France, Spain, and Russia.

2. Students will use political maps to describe the change in

Agenda:

1. Bell Ringer (20 min)

2. Review “Characteristics of an Absolute Monarch” (5 min)

3. All-Write-Round-Robin (15 min)

4. Quiz-Quiz-Trade (rest of class)

Home Learning: Review your notes, and QQT questions posted on the blog about Absolutism. Review flash cards and quiz questions on the following link: http://www.raleighcharterhs.org/faculty/bnewmark/euroquizzes.html

GRADED ON FRIDAY:

1. JOURNALS 61-70

2. TWO T-CHARTS ON THE ABSOLUTISM VIDEOS

3. SECTIONS 1-5 G.O. & ASSESSMENTS

4. ABSOLUTISM EXAM

5. BRING INITIALLED JOURNAL 71 TO USE AS NOTES. 

BELOW ARE THE Quiz-Quiz-Trade (QQT) questions we used in class:

1.      Q - A system where a monarch wields supreme power and claims to have to answer only to God / A – Absolutism

2. Q - A balance between governmental powers and the rights of a government's subjects / A - Constitutionalism

3. Q - The belief that a King is God's chosen instrument on Earth and answerable to God alone / A - Devine Right

4. Q - A system of republican government, used to inaccurately characterize the Protectorate under Cromwell (England) / A - Commonwealth

5. Q - A system central to feudalism in which people worked on a lord's lands in exchange for protection / A - Serfdom

6. Q - A King with limited powers. / A - Administrative Monarch

7. Q - The first King of the Bourbon dynasty who converted to Catholicism to become King of France. / A - Henry IV

8. Q - The embodiment of French absolutism, and longest-serving European monarch, who revoked the Edict of Nantes / A - King Louis XIV (The Sun King)

9. Q - The de facto capital of France during the 18th century and home of an opulent palace. / A - Versailles

10. Q - Government policies to regulate a nation's economic activities / A - Mercantilism

11. Q - Last Tudor monarch of England, successor to Elizabeth I / A - James I

12. Q - Strong religiously conservative Protestants in England who sought to eliminate Roman Catholic elements from the Anglican Church. / A - Puritans

13. Q - A conflict between Parliamentary and Royalist forces that ended with a victory for the Parliamentarians. / A - English Civil War

14. Q - Leader of the Parliamentary forces and Lord Protector of England. / A - Oliver Cromwell

15. Q - A law passed by Parliament strengthening the rule that people unlawfully detained cannot be prosecuted by a court of law. / A - Habeas Corpus Act

16. Q - The bloodless deposition of James II (when Queen Mary and her Husband William of Orange were put on the throne of England by Parliament / A - Glorious Revolution 1688

17. Q - A document written by Parliament following the Glorious Revolution enumerating certain guarantees for all English citizens. / A - Bill of Rights of 1689

18. Q - Foremost Spanish artist of Mannerism. Painted "View of Toledo" and the "Burial of the Count of Orgaz." / A - El Greco

19. Q - Muslim dynasty centered in Turkey that had its peak between the 16th and 17th centuries. / A - Ottoman Empire

20. Q - The man under whom the Ottoman Empire saw its zenith. Father of "Selim the Halfway Decent"  / A - Suleiman the Magnificent

21. Q - Eastern European nation located on the present-day Czech Republic, the site of the beginning of the Thirty Years War. / A - Bohemia

22. Q - The son of Frederick William who created a strong Prussian military and established strong absolutist rule in Prussia / A - Frederick William I "The Soldier's King"

23. Q - The Church formed as a result of the Great Schism with the Catholic Church / A - Eastern Orthodox Church

  

24. Q - The highest-ranking Russian nobles / A - Boyars

25. Q - A famous Tsar who sought to build the Russian state and apply lessons from Western Europe to his own nation / A - Peter the Great

26. Q - Construction began on this city in 1702 and shortly thereafter it replaced Moscow as Russia's capital / A - St. Petersburg

27. Q – A famous Tsarina who sought to expand Russia’s border / A – Catherine the Great