Ap Euro Absolutism
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| absolutism | Derived from the traditional assumption of power and the belief in "divine right of kings
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| Jean Bodin | Among the first to provide a theoretical basis for absolute states
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| Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan | pessimistic view of human beings in a state of nature
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| Bishop Bossuet | principal advocate of "divine right of kings" in France during the reign of Louis XIV
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| “divine right” of kings | meant that the king was placed on the throne by God, the therefore owned his authority to no man or group
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| First Estate | clergy:1% of population
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| Second Estate | nobility; 3/4 % of population
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| Third Estate | bourgeoisie;(middle class)
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| Henry IV | Laid the foundation for france becoming the strongest european power in the 17th Century
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| Bourbon dynasty | Henry IV was the first King of the Borbon Dynasty
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| nobility of the sword | not allowed to influence the royal council
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| nobility of the robe | new nobles who purchased their titles from the monarchy
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| Duke of Sully | 1560-1641,finance minister
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| Louis XIII | as a youth, his regency was best by corruption and mismanegment
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| Cardinal Richelieu | laid foundation for absolutism in France
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| politique | placed political issues ahead of religious issues
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| Intendant system | used to weaken the nobility
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| Louis XIV, “Sun King” | quintessential ruler in European History
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| “L’ état, c’est moi” | "I am the state" -Louis XIV, "Sun King"
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| Fronde | a revolt from the nobles
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| Cardinal Mazarin | controlled france while Louis XIV was a child
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| corvee | forced labor that required peasants to work for a month out of the year on roads and other public projects
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| Versailles Palace | became the grandest and most impressive palace in all of Europe
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| Edict of Fontainebleau | revoked Edict of Nantes
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| Jansenists | Catholics who held some calvanest ideas
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| mercantilism | state control over a countries economy in order to achieve a favorable balance of trade with other countries
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| bullionism | a nation's policy of accumulating as much precious metal as possible while preventing its outward flow to other countries
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| Jean-Baptiste Colbert | French mercantilism reached it's height with him
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| balance of power | no one country will be allowed to dominate the continent
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| War of the League of Augsburg | in response to another invasion of the Spanish Netherlands by Louis XIV in 1683
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| War of Spanish Succession | Cause:The will of Charles II(Habsburg King)gave all spanish territories to the grandson of Louis XIV
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| Treaty of Utrecht | Most important treaty between the Treaty of Westphalia and the Treaty of Paris
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| Philip II | king of spain
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| Escorial Palace | built in order to demonstrate Philip's power
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| “price revolution” | hurt domestic industries that were unable to export goods
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| Spanish Armada | seen by some historians as the beginning of the decline of the Spanish Empire
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| Treaty of the Pyrenees, 1659 | marked the end of spain as a great power
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| Baroque | reflected the age of absolutism
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| Bernini | personified baroque architecture and sculpture
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| Versailles Palace | built during the reign of Louis XIV in the quintessential baroque structure
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| Schönbrunn | Habsburg Emperor Leopold I built in Austria in response to the Versailles Palace
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| Winter Palace | Peter the Great in Russia built this in St.Petersburg largely on the influence of Versailles
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| Caravaggio, tenebrism | Italian Painter in Rome
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| Peter Paul Rubens | Flemish Painter
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| Diego Velázquez | perhaps the greatest court painter of the era
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| Artemisia Gentileschi | famous for vivid depictions of dramatic scenes and her "Judith" Paintings
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| Dutch Style | did not fit the baroque style of trying to overwhelm the viewer
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| Rembrandt van Rijin | painter
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| Jan Vermeer | paintings of ordinary people in simple scenes
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| French Classicism | paintings rationally organized to achieve harmony and balance
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| Nicolas Poussin | painter
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| Jean Baptiste Racine | dramatist
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| Jean-Baptiste Moliere | dramatist
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| J.S. Bach | greatest of the Baroque composers
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