Rise Of Sovereignty (1600-1715)

Question 0

English Civil War

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parliaments response to Charles asking for more money in making it contingent to the curbing of monarchical power

Question 1

Charles I

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(1625-1649)

• James son
• married sister of french catholic King and always was fighting with France and Spain
• problems with parliament and had to ask for more funds for war

Question 2

Commonwealth

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• victory of parliament led to execution of Charles and establishment of commonwealth
• deteriorated into a fundamentalist Protestant dictatorship under the rule of Oliver Cromwell

Question 3

Restoration

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(1660-1688)

• parliamentarians worked to establish a restoration of English monarchy
• invited son of Charles I to take throne as Charles II

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James II

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• Charles brother ascended to throne
• catholic
• determined to establish religIous freedom for Catholics, to avenge his father and restore absolute monarchy

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Mary (wife of William of Orange of the Netherlands)

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-was called to thwart James II plan

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Glorious revolution

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• Mary of Orange
• bloodless uprising that coordinated parliament led uprisings with the invasion of a Protestant fleet and army from the Netherlands
• led to expulsion of James II in 1688

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Constitutional monarchy

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A system by which the monarch in Britain rules within the

Limits of the laws passed by a legislative body

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French absolutism

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The lack of religious turmoil allowed french monarchy to have an alliance with clergy and middle class and to use both administrations for a centralized government

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Louis XIII

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(1610-1643)

- chief minister: Cardinal Richelieu

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Cardinal Richelieu

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• used royal army to strip autonomy granted to few Protestant (Huguenot) towns left
• Divided franc into 30 administrative districts and out each under control of an INTENDENT

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Intendent

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An administrative bureaucrat usually chosen from middle class who owned his position and loyalty was directly to Richelieu

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Cardinal Jules Mazarin

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Continued Richelieus policies

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Louis XIV

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• perfected Richelieus policies and added bribery
• built Versailles and gave nobles a choice: oppose him and be destroyed or join him and have all the perks
• nobles gave up any control and lived luxuriously

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Peter the great

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(1689-1725)

• the Romanov tsars consolidated power by buying the loyalty of the nobles
• in return for loyalty, tsars gave nobility control over classes of people below them

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Law code of 1649

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Converted the legal status of groups as varied as peasants and slaves into that of a single class of serfs

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Baroque Style

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• art of the 17th century
• emphasis on grandeur and drama
• Versailles is baroque

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Sides to English Civil War

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• forces LOYAL TO KING fought to defend monarchy, Church of England, noble privileges
• forces SUPPORTING PARLIAMENT fought to end official state church and notions of individual liberty