Absolutism and Divine Right

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Across
  1. 5. The emblem that represented Louis XIV
  2. 10. was a British philosopher who wrote in the 1600s that a powerful monarch was the best way to unify a nation.
  3. 11. The translation of “L’etat C’est moi”
  4. 12. the historical era of absolute monarchs
  5. 14. Louis XIV of ____ was a model for absolute monarchs.
  6. 15. The huge palace created in France in which nobles lived under the eye of the King most of the year.
  7. 16. kings were justified in assuming absolute power because only kings could _______.
Down
  1. 1. a political system where a monarch has absolute power over his or her subjects.
  2. 2. To argue or go against the ____ was to go against God.
  3. 3. The theory that monarch's power was divine and came from God.
  4. 4. The tsar of Russia who forcibly Westernized Russia.
  5. 6. _____ the Great continued the legacy of Peter.
  6. 7. The king's _____ were God's expressed wishes on Earth in this era.
  7. 8. The faith of France under Louis XIV
  8. 9. Russian nobles were forced to cut this to fit into Western cultures brought into Russia.
  9. 13. People often believed that the monarch's power came from ____.