Multiple Choice
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,absolutism was a political theory that:
A) encouraged rulers to turn over control of their governments to Parliament.
B) allowed rulers to govern by divine right and according to their own will.
C) discouraged military and economic competition among European states.
D) built on the democratic ideals of early Renaissance republics.
E) allowed countries, regardless of their form of government, to assume authority over its citizens.
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