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Section 3 Response to Crisis: Absolutism.
The emergence of Absolute power.
Response to Crisis in EuropeIncreasing
monarchies power=stability–Absolutism: ruler
holds total power–Divine Right
•power from God & answer only to God
(Absolutism of France) Model of Absolutism Louis XIII-King age 9
• Chief minister: Cardinal Richelieu–Goal: strong monarchy
• Took away political & military rights of Huguenots
• Executed threats Louis XIV- king age 4
– Chief minister Cardinal Mazarin • Took power from nobles
=strong central gov
Louis XIV (4th) “Sun King” Lived at Versailles
1.House of Louis XIV2.state offices 3.Home of officials (nobles)-
didn’t trust.– busy court life- kept out of
politics– Kept at Versailles- watched– Help control providences
Louis XIV’s absolute power over • policy• Church
– Huguenots to Catholicism• Taxes
Louis XIV Economy & War Economy
– Jean-Baptiste Colbert -finances• mercantilism
– decreased imports –high tariffs – increased exports –built roads, canals & merchant
fleet– subsidies ($) to new industries
Military– Large army =power/ competitor– 4wars –goal-territory=power
• nations form coalitions-prevent French domination Died 1715
– debt & enemies
Absolutism in Central & Eastern EuropeAfter 30 yrs War -300 German states
– Prussia• Absolutist Leader: Frederick William the
Great Elector–large army–General War Commissariat: taxes for the
army & civil gov. agency– Austria
• large empire• Couldn’t become absolutist state –too
many nationalities• Common ruler-Hapsburg emperor
Russia -Peter the Great Ivan IV: first czar (Absolutist)
– “Ivan the Terrible”– Expanded territory
eastward– Crushed nobilities
( boyars) power– Dynasty ended in 1598
“Time of Troubles”– Michael Romanov czar
1613• Romanov dynasty
lasted until 1917
Russia Under Peter the Great Peter the Great: Romanov dynasty
– Absolutist monarch-czar 1689– “Europeanize” Russia
• technology• customs• Western trade port –St.
Petersburg (capital)– Military
• Drafted peasants (serve 25 yr) • massive army & navy=power• Divided Russia into provinces
–“police states” of well ordered communities
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