Chapter 14 Section 3

1. Chapter 14 Section 3 Section Review Questions - Page 469 #1-5

2. Identify stability • strong enough to endure absolutism • system in which a ruler holds total power Louis XIV • French king, his reign is probably the best example of absolutism in the seventeenth century authority • power, person in command

3. Identify Cardinal Richelieu • Louis XIII’s chief minister, strengthened the monarch’s power Prussia & Austria • after the Thirty Years War, emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as two of the great European powers Frederick William the Great Elector • Laid the foundation for the Prussian state by building a large and efficient standing army

4. Identify Ivan IV • in the sixteenth century, became the first ruler to take the title of czar czar • Russian word for caesar boyars • the Russian nobility Michael Romanov • chosen by the Russian national assembly as the new czar in 1613

5. Identify Peter the Great • Member of Romanov dynasty, became czar in 1689, absolutist monarch who claimed the divine right to rule St. Petersburg • City on the Baltic that Peter the Great began constructing in 1703, a base for his new Russian navy and a window to the West

6. 2.Summarize the reign of Louis XIV of France using a chart like the one below.

7. Questions 3. Explain why Frederick the Great Elector of Prussia thought it was so important to build a large and efficient standing army. • Prussia was a small, open territory with no natural frontiers for defense. 4. Describe the Western customs and practices that Peter the Great introduced to Russia. • Rules of etiquette; men shaved beards; women removed veils; both sexes mixed freely in society

8. Questions 5. Compare and contrast the absolutist leadership styles of Louis XIV, Frederick William the Great Elector, and Peter the Great.