How was the rise of Absolutism in France and Russia similar? How was it different? (Consider the structure of government, military actions, and cultural changes.)

In England, absolutism was powerful when parliament was dissolved, but worse because of the English Civil War. In France, it was strong, as Louis XIV had everyone basically worship him. In Russia, Peter the Great modernized Russia and expanded its borders.

d) all choices are correct

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.