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The Old Regime

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    Level 4º ESO
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  • Explain the following term: Enlightened despotism:
    Form of government in which the king works to bring happiness to his subjects
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  • Match the following statements to a political system: a) ‘All for the people, without the people’
    Enlightened despotism.
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  • Match the following statements to a political system: b) ‘I am the state’.
    Absolutism
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  • Match the following statements to a political system: c) ‘Sovereignty essentially consists of the general will of the people’.
    (c) Democracy/ Parliamentarism
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  • Explain the following term: Encyclopaedia
    Encyclopaedia: reasoned dictionary that intended to be a summary of the knowledge of the time.
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  • Explain why the following have become historical figures: Montesquieu
    Montesquieu: establishes the basis for the separation of powers.
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  • Explain why the following have become historical figures: Philip V
    Philip V: first Spanish king from the Bourbon house (1700-1746). He introduced the administrative centralisation of the Bourbons
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  • Explain why the following have become historical figures: Charles III
    Charles III: king of Spain 1759-1788, enlightened monarch who carried out a reformist policy.
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