History activity, aimed at first year high school students, with questions developed about absolutism.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
It is exclusively in my person that sovereign power resides […] It is only from me that my courts receive their existence and their authority; the fullness of this authority, which they exercise only in my name, remains always in me, and its use can never be turned against me; the legislative power belongs to me alone, without dependence or sharing […] The entire public order emanates from me, and the rights and interests of the Nation, that it dares to make a body separate from the monarch, then necessarily united with mine and rest solely on my hands.
Speaks of Louis XV to the French Parliament in 1766.
1) What represented the process of formation of national monarchies, gradually gestated in the Low Middle Ages?
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2) What was the breakdown of the feudal system related to?
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3) The emancipation of cities had the support of the sovereign and the bourgeois approached him with the objective of obtaining greater security in their activities. In turn, what was the king looking for?
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4) In order to protect commerce, the king began to recover the rights and privileges he shared with the nobility, seeking the centralization of power. What steps did he take?
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5) The formation of national monarchies was not a homogeneous phenomenon, and in each European kingdom it was necessary to overcome internal problems. How was this training in Portugal?
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6) In France, the formation of the monarchy was a consequence of what?
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Per Camila Farias.
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