HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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This man promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European
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This man demonstrated absolutism by building Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility
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This man believed that humans were naturally good and would not need a large government to rule over them.
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This man did not believe that the average person was intelligent enough to participate in government, which led him to believe that an enlightened monarchy was best.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Louis serves as an excellent example of the absolute monarch who commanded complete loyalty and imposed his vision on his country without consideration of the consequences. A tutor to his son once said, “As God’s representative on Earth, the king was entitled to unquestioning obedience.
Detailed explanation-2: -Louis XIII regularly came to hunt the abundant game at Versailles, and consequently commissioned the construction of a hunting pavilion here. Later, Louis XIV built a majestic palace from his father’s small château that became the symbol of his reign.
Detailed explanation-3: -Louis XIV, king of France (1643–1715), ruled his country, principally from his great palace at Versailles, during one of the country’s most brilliant periods. Today he remains the symbol of absolute monarchy of the classical age.
Detailed explanation-4: -ABSOLUTE MONARCHY OF LOUIS XVI The monarch was able to maintain absolute control over the society with the addition of feudalism, which involved people being placed into different estates of power, such as: clergy, nobility and peasants.