Question

Choose the statements that represent similarities between Peter the Great and Louis XIV.

A) They both sought to modernize their nations by "westernization."

B) They both lost power due to violent revolution.

C) They were both hereditary monarchs.

D) They both led nations that had long dominated different parts of Europe.

E) They were both absolutist rulers.

Answer 1

The correct answers are C) They were both hereditary monarchs, and E) They were both absolutist rulers.

Step-by-step explanation:

I did the practice questions over the Western Transformation: 1400-1800s - Absolutism, and originally got this question wrong but then it explained it and stated that these were the correct answers.

Here is the explanation from Progress Learning/USATestPrep:

Both Louis XIV and Peter the great were absolutist rulers who were hereditary monarchs. (Peter was a Romanov, Louis a Bourbon.) Neither lost power due to a revolution (Louis XVI was later), Russia hoped to "westernize" their nation, and only France was a dominant power at the time. Peter helped to transform Russia into a position of dominance, but that had not "long" been the case.