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ABSOLUTISM AND CONST
ABSOLUTISM AND CONSTITUTIONALISM
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jacques Bossuet | 1.Govt is divinely sanctioned 2.Wrote Politics derived from the very word of holy scripture |
| Thomas Hobbes | 1.advocated absolutism on secular grounds 2. Invest sole power to the Leviathan |
| general characteristics of absolutist monarchies | 1.unlimited authority to rule 2. diving right 3.patronage/censorship |
| favorable balance of trade | exports>imports |
| zero-sum game | total volume on trade is unchangeable |
| overall goal of mercantilism | 1.self-sufficiancy |
| tariffs | tax on imports |
| methods of mercantilism | 1.monopolies 2.importing foreign artisans 3.quality control |
| Cardinal Richelieu | 1. chipped away at the rights of the Huguenots 2. created intendant system |
| intendant system | attempted to centralize royal authority in france |
| Cardinal Mazarin | 1.successor of Richilieu 2.fronde |
| fronde | 1.aboritve noble-led french rebellion 2.resented parlement of france |
| i am the state | L'etat c'est moi |
| One King, one law, one faith | un roi, une loi, une foi |
| Royal Council | King Louis 14 cut out nobles and put in the bourgeoisie, new aristocrats |
| bourgeosie | new aristocrats |
| French Classicism | 1.values of the renaissance 2.Nicolas Poussin |
| Barouque | French style painting, architecture |
| levee | traditional rising of Louis 14 |
| cochee | traditional sleep time ritual of Louis the 14 |
| Estates general | 1. not called on by L14 |
| Gallican Church | monarchial power is independent of the church and the RCC in each country is controlled by BOTH the monarch and pope |
| Jean-Baptiste Colbert | 1.mercantilism 2.merchant marine 2. decreased reliance on imports through tariffs |
| War of Spanish succession | 1. caused by french bourbon accession to the spanish throne 2. blocked by english,dutch etc 3. jeopardized the balance of power 4. ended by Treaty of Utrecht and Treaty of Rastatt |
| Treaty of Utrecht and Treaty of Rastatt | 1.ended war of spanish succession 2.england big winner (gibralter) 3. french lose dominance in europe 4. Kingdom of Prussia established |
| Edict of Fontainebleau | revoked edict of nantes |
| decline of spain | 1.inflation 2.weak middle class 3.debt |
| House of Hohenzollern | rulling family brandenburg-prussia |
| Frederick William | 1.Prussian army general 2. general war commissariat |
| general war commissariat | governed prussian state led by junkers |
| junkers | prussian nobles |
| treaty of karlowitz | 1.ended austo-ottoman war 2. austira gained hungary croatia etc 3. austria was not able to unify bc of multiculturalism |
| Ivan 4 | expanded russia eastward |
| boyars | russian nobles |
| romanov | russian ruling family |
| peter the greats goals | 1.make power of the tsar absolute 2.westernize 3.open window to the west |
| table of the ranks | peters meritocracy |
| kaftan | russian noble wear |
| charles 12 | swedish meteor |
| great northern war | 1.russia vs sweden 1. russia won, got window to the west in st petersburg |
| Russian history divided into.. | pre-petrine/post-petrine |
| Dutch republic | United provinces, netherlands |
| stadholder | led a Province in the dutch republic |
| fluyt | dutch merchant ship |
| dutch companies | exchange bank of amsterdam, dutch east/west india trading companies |
| genre scenes | 1.vermeer and Rembrandt 2. realistic portrayal of everyday scenes 3. called dutch realism |
| balenced polity | the cordial relationship between the tudors and parliment |
| James 1 | 1.son of mary queen of scots 2. |
| right to tax | power of the purse |
| puritans | english non-separatists calvinists |
| trew law | james 1, defended divine right |
| left for the new world | separtist calvanists |
| presbyterian church | bottom up, democratic |
| episcopalin | top down, monarchy |
| Charles 1 | abs monarch, disliked, executed |
| Petition of right | 1.parliment forced Charles 1 to sign 2.monarch could not collect taxes without monarchs consent 3. military law(martial law) could not be imposed 4 |
| personal rule | 1.charles 1 did not call on parliment 2. |
| ship money | 1.illegal tax by charles 1 2. |
| William Laud | Archbishop suppressed puritans, led to the great migration of puritans |
| long parliment | met for 13 years, |
| triennial act | passed by long parliament 1. parliament could not be dissolved with out consent 2.abolished charles tax 3. executed william laud |
| John Pym | leader of long parliament that charles tried to arrest |
| cavaliers | royalist, supporters of charles I, member of the house of lords |
| roundheads, | supporters of parliament, middle class |
| central questions of the english civil war | 1. who rules? abs monarch or parliament 2. how is the church governed? presb. or episco. |
| Oliver cromwell | leader of new model army and independents |
| rump parliament | tried, convicted charles 1 of treason |
| prides pursion | exlusion of moderate members of parliament |
| interregnum | english period with out a monarch (1649-1660) |
| the commonweath | republic, house of lords/anglican church abolished |
| levellers | wanted religious toleration, free speech, voting rights |
| diggers | wanted communism |
| lord acton | power corrupts, abs power corrupts absolutly |
| Instrument of Govt | cromwell dissolved parliament after disputes over the newenglish constituion |
| lord protector | cromwell, military dictator |
| protectorate | military dictorship of england under cromwell, catholics not allowed but jews were |
| the restoration | invited charlesII the merry monarch returned from exile in france |
| test act | excluded catholics from govt positions |
| exclusion bill | excluded james II (charles II brother) from the english throne |
| whigs | liberals, supported exclusion bill |
| tories | conservatives, did not like exclusion bill bc it tampered with lawful succession |
| james II | open catholic |
| glorious revolution | parliament invited mary II and William III of orange to rule only if enlgand was a limited monarchy |
| Enlgish Bill of Rights | 1.Catholics barred from the throne 2.habeas corpus 3. religious toleration |
| jacobites | wanted james II catholic son on the throne |
| john locke | supports english revolution in two treasties of govt |
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