world hisotry absolutis Flashcards
define absolutism
ab-unlimited and unrestricted power of monarch, control of finances, religion, and nobility; increase size of army and navy; make gov work for them; extend the boundary of the county
divine right
monarch rules by the authority of God, not by a human authority- roman18
1king was God represtative
2obediane to king was obdeience to God
3 king could do no wrong and could do wtv he wanted
illustrate absolutism of Louis 14,
Louis 14- I am state, unlimited power. organized french finances through encouraging commercial activity and econimic self-sufficenty
reconstructed army, frogein policy-etend France to natural boarders, Versailles, revoked edict of Nantes
fredrick William
strong state, built roads, postal system, free education, with some religious and legal freedoms
started prussian militarusm
Peter the great
1stregnethen absolutism
created strong army
crushed revolts
ceterizeld goveremnt
expand his control over the church
2tried to westernize russia
traveled weurope yo learn all he could
3 gained seaports to Baltic sea
4 St Petersburg= new capital
age of reason
period of European history during the 1600s and 1700s when men began to exalt reason as the supreme authority, rather than pega`n philopher or the churchIt was intellectual and social counterpart to absolutism.
enlightened deposit
very powerfulbut cared for citizens welfare
prussia and russia illustrate or don’t
prussia- army with disapline, roads postal system, free eduation, militaris fedrick 2 world power
russia- cruel tyranny defeated nobles after independane from mongols, kill his son, ended in choas; peter the great- strengethen absolutism, rushed revolts centerlied govn’t, westernize
britian turn into parliament
charles goes to war with palrimet to get money, parliment makes him follow rep gov in magna carta-petition of right parliemt has right to tax, must be convented every 3 years; civil war breaks out parliment v king, outocme oliver cromwell rules rnland as lord protetor andremived thosre who plotted against him; glorious revolution-william and mary and become o-rulers with parlimet and led to contstiutional monarhy and later signedbill of rights, charles2 began abinet advisors, george 1 didnt speak english, prime minister had execuative powers and responsible to the parliment
king of government britian has today
institutional monarchy and parlinent
power parliment has over king
had the power of money and legslative
euporpean balance of powers
world is a pie; if your ake some, I need a peice of it to allow no one to get too powerful. no single country should have too much pie. what this led to was a number of wars and shifting alliances to maintain BOP
