Question

8. Explain the differences between a country with an absolute monarchy versus one that is a constitutional monarchy? In a transition from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy, who is gaining more power or representation? 9. What was the role of disease in the Americas and Pacific islands? Did it help or hold back European expansion in these areas? Why?

Answer 1

Answer:

country with an absolute monarchy would have no democratic values while in a country with constitutional monarchy, the power would be shared within the monarchy and the people.

Explanation:

A country with an absolute monarchy would have no democratic values as the overall power would be in the hands of a monarchy. Such countries would be governed by a single person and all citizens would be a subject to the king/queen.

On the other hand, a country with constitutional monarchy would have a monarchical system but the monarchy would exercise its power in accordance to the constitution. The monarchy is not sovereign and the power would be shared within the monarchy and the people.

In a transition from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy, the common people are gaining more power or representation.

The diseases in the Americas and Pacific Island devastated the lives of the isolated native people. It dislocated and destroyed their social systems as they had no cure or immunity to diseases from the outside world.

It did not hold back European expansion in these areas because most Europeans were immune to such diseases. Instead, it gave an advantage to the colonists from Europe to easily defeat the ailing natives.