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AP Euro Unit 3 Test Study Guide
1.Absolutism: Monarch claims absolute power often through divine
right; involved the decrease of noble power and the creation of a
bureaucracy which directed economic life by forcing tax increases or
other means of raising revenue; kings also employed armies and
controlled all aspects of gov
2.Jean Bodin: 16th century English writer who was the first to provide a
theoretical basis for absolutist states; wrote
during French Civil wars and came to strongly support the divine right of
kings; believed only absolutism could provide order
3.Thomas Hobbes: wrote the Leviathan (1651); claimed that the state of
natureal human life was poor before organized society; people
contracted a commonwealth of gov to prevent chaos; commonwealth
had unlimited, absolute power and subjects were not to rebel
4.Bishop Bousset: French theologian and court preacher who was one of
the chief theorists of divine right monarchy in the 17th century; wrote
"Politics Drawn from the Very Words of the Holy Scripture" which
