HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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A democracy in which ONLY Parliament holds power
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A monarch that only shares power with Parliament
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A monarch that holds divine power over their nation
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A theocracy in which no government exists, only worship to a single faith.
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Detailed explanation-1: -absolutism, the political doctrine and practice of unlimited centralized authority and absolute sovereignty, as vested especially in a monarch or dictator.
Detailed explanation-2: -Absolutism is a political system in which a single monarch, usually a king or queen, holds complete and unrestrained power over a country.
Detailed explanation-3: -divine right of kings, in European history, a political doctrine in defense of monarchical absolutism, which asserted that kings derived their authority from God and could not therefore be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority such as a parliament.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Age of Absolutism was the period around the 17th and 18th centuries when Europe (kind of) was ruled by very powerful monarchs. Monarchs with absolute control. Thus, the Age of Absolutism. Absolute monarchs were rulers who held all the power in a country.