test chapters 17-18 Flashcards
In the 17th century, King Louis XIV had 1. strengths and 2. weaknesses
- large industrious populace, good farming, international commerce
- emptied of “Righteousness that exalted a nation”
nickname for Louis XIV
The Sun King
He ruled in place of the young Louis XIV (died in 1661)
Cardinal Mazarin
Louis XIV took control at _____ years old
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Louis XIV was known for _____ and _______
pomp and splendor
government by men who ist at desks
Bureaucracy
Louis representative
Intendant
French term for middle class
Bourgeoisie
the nobles
Aristocracy
minister of Finance
Jean Baptiste Colbert
1500s claimed territory in America for France
Verrazano and Cartier
“the father of new France”
Samuel de Champlain
the first permanent French colony in america
Quebec
Explored central Mississippi river
Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet
claimed the entire Mississippi valley for France
Robert Cavalier de la Salle
a European coalition against France
League of Augsburg
the war of the league of Augsburg was end by the treaty of ________
treaty of Ryswick in 1697; (it was also the status quo ante bellum)
the war of the Spanish succession
a movement that attempted to apply unaided human philosophy to all areas of man’s life in order to establish a new social order
the age of enlightenment
the father of the enlightenment
voltaire
man’s reason is the sole criteria for truth
rationalism
the father of the French romanticism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(he said man is naturally good, but society is bad); books: the social contract, Emile
man’s emotions and imagination is the basis truth
romanticism
Editor of the Encyclopedia (a multivolume work that attempted to reorganize all human knowledge from the perspective of rationalism)
Denis Diderot
showed more interest in personal pleasure than government
Louis XV
“neither the education or the character for the job”
Louis XVI
- first estate
- second estate
- third estate
- the clergy
- the nobility
- everyone else
nobility vs. king
aristocratic revolution
