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) justified the authority and power of monarchs as divine right and allowed them to rule 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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