DBQ on Absolutism

Document Based Question European monarchs in the seventeenth and eighteenth century viewed themselves as absolute rulers, or kings and queens that believed that they controlled everything within their state's borders. The people that were ruled by the absolute rulers believed absolutism had a different aspect than was being used by the kings and queens. This practice is known as absolutism. The people that were being ruled and the ruler or absolute monarch viewed the role …

…actions on his own people. The above documents and arguments lead to one and only one conclusion. That conclusion is that absolute rulers or absolute monarchs and their subjects or people view the proper role of an absolute monarch very differently. The absolute rulers believe that they are allowed to do anything they please because of the fact that they are absolute rulers and the people believe that the absolute rulers have to be limited.