Homework for Tomorrow - Read up to "Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment"
Class work materials and question:
Video - Building of Versailles
Video - Music of Versailles
Question # 1 – Louis XIV: Model of an Absolute Monarch –
Historian John Miller described the importance of absolute monarchs, like Louis
XIV by saying, “Absolute monarchies helped to bring a sense of
nationhood to disparate territories, to establish a measure of public order and
to promote prosperity… we need therefore to jettison the liberal and democratic
preconceptions of the twentieth century and instead think in terms of an
impoverished and precarious existence, of low expectations and of submission to
the will of God and to the king…” Should students of history ignore modern
ideas like the liberal values in judging the reign of Louis XIV?
