1. ABSOLUTE MONARCHY World History

2. STINGER 1.Identify Five facts in the portrait. 2.Infer five things from those facts. 3.Write a brief paragraph detailing what you think is going on in the picture and explaining why.

3. ABSOLUTE MONARCHY  King Crowned by Pope  Absolute power  Usually familial succession to the throne  Symbols of power  Crown  Scepter  Orb  What are the benefits of Absolute monarchies?  What are the drawbacks of absolute monarchies?

4. PROS AND CONS  Pros  Predictable  Stable  Everyone knows who is in charge  Safety and security  Power to enforce law  Power to protect people  Transference of power is stable  Cons  Very little change or adaptation  Can have a tyrant or a crazy person  Sometimes the king is a child. Then what?  Sometimes there is no male heir. Then what?  People have no say  If king is defeated, creates a power vacuum

5. ARTICLE  Read and Summarize the article using the eight-step pyramid.  Answer the following questions about the article:  What country did your person or people control?  How did your person or people treat citizens of that country?  Identify three things for which your person or people are famous?  What makes your person or people a great ruler?  What makes your person or people a terrible ruler?

6. NUMBER GROUPS  Compare and contrast your leaders  Find Three things similar between all 8 leaders!  Find one thing that makes each leader unique  Only one page per group for this part!

7. EXIT TICKET  What are three benefits of absolute monarchy?  What are two drawbacks of absolute monarchy?  What is one way that an absolute monarch might be tamed or controlled?