Eighteenth-century monarchs increasingly
A) followed pacifist, “rational” foreign policies.
B) sought to stem the spread of the Enlightenment.
C) changed their public image from that of a self-aggrandizing absolutist to that of a diligent servant of the state.
D) turned the governing of their states over to their ministers, while they pursued a life of opulent leisure.
E) saw themselves as products of divine right.
Ans: C
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