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    Autocracy is a system of government in which absolute power is held by the ruler, known as an autocrat. It includes most forms of monarchy and dictatorship, while it is contrasted with democracy and feudalism. Various definitions of autocracy exist.

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  3. Apr 18, 2021 · Video. by CrashCourse. published on 18 April 2021. So far, the rulers of Europe have been working to consolidate their power and expand their kingdoms, and this is it. The moment they've been working toward: Absolute Monarchy.

  4. Absolutism” is a concept of political authority created by historians to describe a shift in the governments of the major monarchies of Europe in the early modern period. In other words, while the monarchs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries certainly knew they were doing something differently than had their predecessors, they did ...

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  5. Abstract. Absolutism is a nineteenth-century term designed precisely to address the mismatch between doctrine and power. The intellectual resources of absolutism were far older than the Renaissance and Reformation.

  6. Jan 15, 2021 · Firstly, absolutism may refer to the claim that there exists a universally valid moral system, which applies to everyone whether they realize it or not. In this sense, absolutism is opposed to moral relativism, which denies the existence of universally applicable moral principles.

  7. Absolutism. Sovereigns and estates; Major forms of absolutism. France; The empire; Prussia; Variations on the absolutist theme. Sweden; Denmark; Spain; Portugal; Britain; Holland; Russia; The Enlightenment. Sources of Enlightenment thought; The role of science and mathematics; The influence of Locke; The proto-Enlightenment; History and social ...

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › NationalismNationalism - Wikipedia

    Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the Nation should be congruent with the state. [1] [2] As a movement, it presupposes the existence [3] and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, [4] especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining its sovereignty ( self-governance) over its perceived homeland to create a ...

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