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Absolutism and Constitutionalism

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Key Concept

The struggle for sovereignty within and among states resulted in varying degrees of political centralization.

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Absolutism and Constitutionalism Study Guide
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What you need to know about the Age of Absolutism
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Homework Assignments

Assignment 1: Witchcraft

  • MindTap: Setting the Scene: Spiritual Expression
  • Answer study guide questions 1-2 using:
    • Spielvogel pages 436-439
    • The Famous Monty Python Witch Scene
    • A Simpsons Witch Trial
  • Key term 1

Assignment 2: The Thirty Years' War

  • Answer study guide questions 3-6 using:
    • Spielvogel pages 439-444
    • What Was the Treaty of Westphalia?
    • The Treaty of Westphalia
  • Key Terms 2-4
  • MindTap: A Map of the Thirty Years' War

​Assignment 3: Absolutism and Louis XIII

  • Answer study guide questions 7-8 using:
    • Spielvogel pages 444-445
    • What Was Absolutism?
    • The Foundations of Absolutism
  • Key term 5
  • Additional terms 1-5

​Assignment 4: Louis XIV, the Sun King

  • Answer study guide questions 9-11 using:
    • Spielvogel pages 445-450
    • Who Was Louis XIV? (Part 1)
    • Who Was Louis XIV? (Part 2)
  • Key terms 6-7
  • Additional terms 6-8
  • MindTap: Absolutism and the French Monarchy

​Assignment 5: Prussia, Austria, and Russia

  • Answer study guide questions 12-16 using:
    • Spielvogel pages 451-456
    • Prussian Absolutism
    • Peter the Great: Tsar of Russia
  • Key terms 8-10
  • Additional terms 9-13

​Assignment 6: Ottomans, Poles, and the Dutch

  • Answer study guide questions 17-19 using:
    • Spielvogel pages 457-460
    • Crash Course: Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company
    • What Is a Stadtholder?
    • Why Is Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring" Considered a Masterpiece?
  • Key terms 11-12
  • MindTap: Absolutist Projects in Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe

​Assignment 7: English Constitutionalism

  • Answer study guide questions 20-22 using:
    • Spielvogel pages 462-467
    • Absolutism vs. Constitutionalism
    • English Civil War in 3 Minutes
    • The Glorious Revolution in 3 Minutes
  • Key terms 14-15
  • Additional terms 14-17
  • MindTap: Limited Monarchies and England's Crisis of Power

Assignment 8: Cultural Absolutism

  • Answer study guide questions 23-26 using:
    • Spielvogel pages 468-471 
    • What Was Mannerist Art?
    • Baroque Overview
  • Key terms 16-18
  • Additional terms 18-22
  • MindTap: European Arts and Culture in the Seventeenth Century

Assignment 9: Study for the Test

  • Review notes, flashcards, and study guide
  • MindTap: Government and Society in Seventeenth-Century Europe
  • MindTap: Chapter 15 Quiz
  • Practice questions on pages 475A-475B
  • Watch my live review session

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Screencast Lecture Notes

Absolutism and Constitutionalism

Primary Sources

  • Jakob von Grimmelshausen, Simplicius Simplicissimus
  • Oliver Cromwell on the Victory at Naseby 
  • Oliver Cromwell on the Massacre at Drogheda
  • Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs 
  • Lord Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England

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Paul Sargent Makes History

  • Home
  • My YouTube Channel
  • AP European History
    • Historical Reasoning Skills
    • Thematic Learning Objectives >
      • Interaction of Europe and the World
      • Poverty and Prosperity
      • Objective Knowledge and Subjective Visions
      • States and Other Institutions of Power
      • Individual and Society
      • National and European Identity
    • Concept Outline
    • Period 1: 1450-1648
    • Period 2: 1648-1815
    • Period 3: 1815-1914
    • Period 4: 1914-Present
    • Exam Review Resources
  • AP Government
    • Concept Outline
    • Constitutional Underpinnings
    • Political Beliefs and Behaviors
    • Linkage Institutions
    • Institutions of Government
    • Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
    • Exam Review
  • Government and Economics
    • Foundations of Government
    • The Constitution
    • Executive Branch
    • The Judicial Branch
    • Voting and Elections
  • My Blog