Across
- 3. was written by Thomas Hobbes
- 6. time this was taken place
- 7. a form of government wherein the rulership is passed down from one member of the family to the next
- 10. a saying given by King Louis XIV
- 11. a political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers
- 12. a person who reigns over a kingdom
- 13. introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government
- 15. King of France, the sovereign ruler of France
- 17. an example of failed absolutism
Down
- 1. English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings
- 2. what King Louis XIV was called
- 4. a social system existing in medieval Europe in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and land in return
- 5. the most eloquent and influential spokesman for the rights of the French church against papal authority
- 8. country of people choosing to live together under one set of rules
- 9. the adoption of the practices and culture of western Europe by societies and countries in other parts of the world, whether through compulsion or influence
- 14. the right of a sovereign to rule as set forth by the theory of government that holds that a monarch receives the right to rule directly from God and not from the people
- 16. would get executed for not showing this