Age of Absolutism

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Across
  1. 3. classes french society was divided into. 1st: clergy; 2nd: nobility; 3rd: everyone else. Based on rank and privilege and was restored under Henry IV.
  2. 6. supported the king
  3. 8. emerged in response to the threat posed by Louis. no one country would be allowed to dominate the continent since a coalition of other countries would rally against a threatening power.
  4. 10. put needs of state before personal wants
Down
  1. 1. 1628; what Bill of Rights is modeled after. Parliament attempted to encourage the king to grant basic legal rights in return for granting tax increases.
  2. 2. became the grandest and most impressive palace in all of Europe under Louis XIV. The awe-inspiring scale of the palace reinforced his image as the most powerful absolute ruler in Europe. Baroque architecture. Was used to help gain control of the nobility.
  3. 4. theory of absolute authority for himself as king and sought to rule parliament.
  4. 5. rebuilt by Catherine the Great and is one of the most glorious examples of baroque architecture in Russia
  5. 7. opposed to king.
  6. 9. derived from traditional assumption of power and belief in "divine right of kings"