Section 3 Response to Crisis: Absolutism. Big Idea: The emergence of Absolute power.
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Transcript of Section 3 Response to Crisis: Absolutism. Big Idea: The emergence of Absolute power.
Section 3 Response to Crisis: Absolutism.
Big Idea: 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) Louis XIII
• Chief minister: Cardinal Richelieu–Goal: strong monarchy
• Took political & military rights of Huguenots
• Executed threats Louis XIV
– Chief minister: Cardinal Mazarin • Took power from nobles
Louis XIV (14th) “Sun King” Lived at Versailles
1.House of Louis XIV2.state offices & officials home
(nobles)-didn’t trust.– busy court life- kept out of
politics Louis XIV’s absolute power over
• policy• Church
– Huguenots to Catholicism• Taxes
Louis XIV Economy & War Economy
– Jean-Baptiste Colbert -finances• mercantilism
– decreased imports– increased exports– subsidies ($) to new industries
Military– Large army =power/ competitor– 4wars –goal-territory=power
• Coalitions form against France Died 1715
– debt & enemies
Other’s who follow Absolutism– Prussia
• Frederick William the Great Elector–General War Commissariat:
taxes for large army & civil gov. agency
– Russian Czars (monarch)• Ivan the Terrible
–Crushed Boyars (nobilities) power
– Peter the Great• “Europeanize” Russia• Enlarged army-draft peasants