Download - Absolutism Advantages and Disadvantages
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Pass needed acts to better control the state Could create helpful alliances with other
countries
Could create political and trading alliances with their marriages
Gives land to soldiers for loyalty to the monarch or for a victory in a major battle
Could grant the money for exploration of unknown places
Create colonies to further spread the country’s power
Could choose the religion that the state had to follow
_ Catholic vs. Protestant Only one person with all the power Greed, corruption, and favoritism shown Could imprison someone with no need of it
being legally correct Unfair taxes on the lower classes, giving
nobles the least to pay
Always had to have a close, trusted friend in the court of the monarch
Had to have some time yourself spent at court showing your loyalty toward the monarch
The monarch could show favoritism toward some nobles
Unfair in ruling the state
Natural human rights- Have the right to freedom of speech
Equality– Widely believed in, Sparked both the American and French revolutions
Freedom of religion Logical explanation for something once
believed to be godChurch thought that these ideas were heresy,
meaning the church could excommunicate, torture, jail or even executed the “heretics”
John Locke’s Two Treaties of Government- Gives the ideas of self government and Power from the people
Voltaire’s Candid- influenced the U.S. Constitution- freedom of speech, freedom of religious beliefs
Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract- Gave the idea of voting
Baron de Montesquieu’s Of the Spirit of Laws- his ideas were the main basis of the Constitution
Denis Diderot’s encyclopedia- made other’s articles and essays available to the public therefore spreading the Enlightenment’s idea faster
Sir Isaac Newton- developed the laws of motion, explaining that all motion can be measured and defined, invented the reflection telescope
Galileo - improved the telescope, proving that Copernicus was indeed correct to state that the sun was the center of our universe
Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes develop the scientific method
Science disproved that alchemy could turn non precious metals into gold
Robert Boyle- found the differences between the elements and the chemical compounds that make the elements up
Sir Isaac Newton- created calculus, binomial theorem, made a systematic way of integrating algebra into geometry
Mary Wollstonecraft- an author that was a head of her time. She wrote that women need an education to be useful in society just like men
Before the Enlightenment the style was very ornate and grand but with the changing of times people fell back on the classical look, elegant, and harmonious
Painted by Joshua Reynolds, Duchess of Bedford, 1756
Painted by Johannes de Eyck, Arnolfini and his wife, c. 15th century