AP®︎ European History: Topic 3.7 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 3.7 of AP European History – Absolutist Approaches to Power.
Questions List
Topic 3.7
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: KC-2.1.I.A
What is the form of government where all sovereign power rests in the hands of a single monarch?
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Topic 3.7: Absolutist Approaches to Power
Thematic Focus: States and Other Institutions of PowerSOP
European states and nations developed governmental and civil institutions from 1450 to the present to organize society and consolidate political power, with a variety of social, cultural, and economic effects.
Learning Objective: Unit 3: Learning Objective G
Explain how absolutist forms of rule affected social and political development from 1648 to 1815.
Historical Developments: KC-2.1.I.A
Absolute monarchies limited the nobility’s participation in governance but preserved the aristocracy’s social position and legal privileges.
Historical Developments: KC-2.1.I.B
Louis XIV and his finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, extended the administrative, financial, military, and religious control of the central state over the French population.
Historical Developments: KC-2.1.I.E
Peter the Great "westernized" the Russian state and society, transforming political, religious, and cultural institutions; Catherine the Great continued this process.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- James I of England
- Peter the Great of Russia
- Philip II, III, and IV of Spain
- Intendants
- Modernized, state-controlled military
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Education
- Western fashion
- Expanded military
