The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)

Chapter 13: The Struggle for Survival and Sovereignty

Essay Quiz

1
How were the changing fates of the upper and lower social orders linked during the seventeenth century?
2
Analyze the ways monarchs tried to increase their power during the seventeenth century.
3
What groups opposed the increase in monarchical power, and what political theories were developed to support their positions?
4
How did Louis XIV's rule epitomize the development of royal absolutism?
5
How did Peter the Great enhance the authority of the central government in Russia?
6
Why did increasing absolutism in Eastern Europe translate into worsening conditions for peasants?
7
Why did an absolute monarch fail to emerge in Poland? How was this situation different from the Austrian and Russian ones?
8
How did the English constitutional monarchy differ from the government of the Netherlands? How did both countries preserve popular sovereignty by way of a constitution?
9
How did the issue of religion fan the flames of conflict between the English monarchs and parliament?
10
Compare political and social relations in western and eastern Europe during the seventeenth century.
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