WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution?
A
Louis XIV
B
Charles I
C
James II
D
William and Mary
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Glorious Revolution, also called “The Revolution of 1688” and “The Bloodless Revolution, ‘’ took place from 1688 to 1689 in England. It involved the overthrow of the Catholic King James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Glorious Revolution, as James’s overthrow came to be called-primarily because it overthrew an unpopular king without the civil war that accompanied the overthrow of Charles I-showed not only the complete conversion of England to Protestantism, but that the age of absolutist monarchy had ended.

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