1. Do Now
Pages 76-77
Learning Target: : I can Identify the major powers that emerged from the Age of Discovery to the Age of Absolutism.
Essential Question: What is absolutism?
Success Criteria: I can explain the changing role of monarchs
Why is it important: Sets a foundation for the Age of Exploration

2. 10 minutes Fill in your timeline for Renaissance and Reformation
At least 5 significant dates/events
Write Absolutism and Explorations Unit Across whole Page 72
Staple in Absolutism and Explorations Deadlines to page 73
Change: ID Terms Due January 12/13
ID Terms (you will get these later) Page 74
Chapt 15 & 16 Reading Page 75

3. The Age of Absolute Monarchs

4. King or Queen has complete control over government & its people
The Age of Absolutism
16th & 17th Centuries
System of government
King or Queen has complete control over government & its people
Autocracy
Centralized Government
Nation states

5. Overview
In the 1500s and 1600s, several rulers in Asia and Europe sought to centralize their political power. Claiming divine right, or authority from God, leaders such as Philip II in Spain and Louis XIV in France gained complete authority over their governments and their subjects.
England resisted the establishment of absolutism. After a civil war, England’s Parliament enacted a Bill of Rights that limited the English monarch’s powers.

6. Overview Main Ideas: Monarchs acted to establish absolute power
Monarchs used the divine right theory and similar ideas to justify their power
Parliament and the Puritans in England resisted absolutism
A limited monarchy was established in England

7. Absolutism
Absolutism: Belief that monarchs hold supreme power, and are responsible only to God.
King has all power
People have no power
Common features- Strong armies, limited representative bodies, high taxes
Kings gain power & centralized governments lose power

8. Absolute Monarch Monarch (king/queen) has ALL power among their people
Absolutism
Absolute Monarch
Monarch (king/queen) has ALL power among their people
Hold unrestricted political power over the sovereign state and its people
Actions not restricted by laws
Kings gain power & centralized governments lose power

9. Monarchs based their claim on Divine Right Authority comes from God
Absolutism
Monarchs based their claim on Divine Right
Authority comes from God
Similar to “Mandate of Heaven”
Subject to no earthly authority
Don’t forget about primogeniture!
Church and state combined

10. Nations sought to maintain national sovereignty of all states
Absolutism
Balance of Power
Nations sought to maintain national sovereignty of all states
Seek to prevent one nation from becoming too powerful
Changed alliances a lot
End of religious wars
Expansion!

11. a line of hereditary rulers of a country
Absolutism
Dynasty
a line of hereditary rulers of a country
Period of time where a country is ruled by one family, one purpose, one idea

12. Breakdown of Feudalism/ Rise of Nation states Continuous Warfare
Causes of Absolutism
Breakdown of Feudalism/ Rise of Nation states
Continuous Warfare
Need for money
Exploration
Declining influence of the church

13. Regulation of Religion & society
Effects of Absolutism
Regulation of Religion & society
Loss of power by nobility & legislatures
New government Bureaucracies
Huge building projects

14. Word Scrabble
5 minutes: complete and put in notes

15. Map Activity & Divine Right Primary Source
MAP DUE AT 12:34
Primary source due at 12:20

16. Exit Ticket: Reflective Writing
In your ET section
Make a prediction
Which country of the 5 emerging Powers will have the strongest ruler and why?
5 minutes

17. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall….
Who’s the absolutist of them all…..
Project.
To be completed on your own time.
Due January 27,28
Before you leave today, I want to know who your partner is and who you are choosing.