I'm no good at sourcing.... Help!

Hey All!

I am trying to prepare lessons for the edTPA and the unit I am doing it on is Absolutism and Enlightenment. I have a lesson done up to begin with absolute monarchs gaining/maintaining power and I have a DBQ I plan to use.

I am trying to do my second lesson and what I want to do is have the students pick two monarchs to compare (Louis XIV, Philip II, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great - those are who the DBQs are on from the previous lesson). I want to have the students compare and contrast the effectiveness of their rule using a venn diagram but I want to give them sources to use so they can then write a paragraph on which monarch they think is better and have the VD and sources for evidence.

I can't find any good sources and I am getting so twisted and turned around. Does anyone have sources for what I am looking for? I've checked DIG and OER but nothing seems quite right.....

-silently losing my patience and my marbles