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CH 15 ABSOLUTISM AND CONSTITUTIONALISM Ca. 1589-1725

CH 15 ABSOLUTISM AND CONSTITUTIONALISM Ca. 1589-1725

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CH 15 ABSOLUTISM AND

CONSTITUTIONALISMCa. 1589-1725

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17th Century Crisis and Rebuilding◦“Age of Crisis”◦Climate changes◦Bitter religious divides◦Government pressures and war◦Hunger and population loss

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The Social Order and Peasant Life◦Europe was rigidly hierarchical (divided into social classes) and patriarchal (dominated by men)

◦Families were a microcosm of this, with the father/husband being the “King” of the household.

◦Most Europeans lived in the countryside.

◦Bread was the primary element for all classes. White bread was for the richest.

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17th Century French Society

3r

d

EstateBourgeoisie, peasants, laborers

1st Estate: clergy2nd

Estate: nobility

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Famine and Economic Crisis◦Peasants were constantly threatened by scarcity and famine.

◦“Little Ice Age” (another one)-period in the 17th century known for a much wetter and colder climate.◦Shorter farming seasons, lower yields, food shortages and famine.

◦Significantly reduced populations because of malnutrition and exhaustion.

◦Bubonic plague continued until the 1720s

◦The urban poor and peasants were hardest hit as the $ of bread increased. ◦Frequent riots over bread led by women against bakers◦“Moral economy” refers to a vision of a world where community needs

predominate over competition and profit.

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Thirty Years’ War◦ https://prezi.com/wwpja8ls-lox/thirty-years-war/

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Achievements in State-Building◦ “Absolutist” governments: (monarchs gather power under their personal control)

◦ France◦ Spain◦ Central Europe, and Russia

◦ Constitutionalist governments: (rulers respect laws passed by representative institutions)◦ England and the Dutch Republic

◦ They were all similar in that they◦ Protected and expanded their frontiers◦ Raised new taxes◦ Consolidated control◦ Competed for new colonies

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Warfare and the Growth of Army Size◦The driving force behind state-building was warfare.

◦New monarchs began recruiting permanent standing armies; army officers were required to be loyal and obedient to the monarch.

◦France set the standard in building a large professional army.

◦Great Britain focused on naval forces.

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Popular Political Action ◦1. Popular revolts were very common in England, France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. They were often caused by food shortages and tax increases.

◦2. Urban Uprisings in France—French urban uprisings were driven by deep popular anger and violence at outside officials sent to collect royal taxes. ◦Governments were hesitant to put them down for fear of creating martyrs

and because armies were expensive. ◦By beginning of the 18th century, people who opposed royal policy and

taxes were swiftly punished because of prompt military support from the central government to local authorities and better integration of municipal governments into the national structure.

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ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE AND SPAIN

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Foundations of absolutism◦ Absolutism is the product of religious warfare that had been prevalent after the

reformation.

◦ People yearned for order and stability and so they naturally looked to their monarchs.

◦ The French, Prussians, Austrians, and Russians are main autocracies-they are less focused on religion and more focused on politics, although they do make a connection between the two.

◦Divine Right Theory states that a King derives his power from God, and that gov’t is a God-created thing.

◦ The Chief theorist of this idea was a French theologian and Jacques Bossuet , who wrote Politics Drawn From the Holy Scriptures.

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Foundations of absolutism

1. Henry IV(r. 1589–1610)

◦founded the Bourbon dynasty◦kept France at peace during his

reign in part by ◦ granting the Edict of Nantes

(allowing Protestants to practice their religion in certain towns)

◦ lowered taxes and improved the infrastructure.

◦He was assassinated by a Catholic zealot in 1610.

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Foundations, cont’d…2. Cardinal Richelieu--(1585–

1642)◦became first minister of the French crown during

the reign of Louis XIII (r. 1610–1643), who was nine years old.

◦He strengthened royal control for France.

◦ Developed a royal system of administration◦ extended the use of intendants who supervised tax

collections, recruited men for the army, presided over local administration, checked up on the nobility, and regulated local economic activities.

◦He repressed Protestantism (laid siege to the Protestant stronghold of La Rochelle) in France

◦weakened the Catholic Habsburgs’ grip on power in the territories surrounding France by supporting Lutheran Gustavus Adolphus in 30 yrs war.

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Foundations, cont’d…

◦Richelieu’s successor

◦continued his centralizing policies in part by increasing taxes. He acted as chief minister for four-year-old Louis XIV.

◦4. The Fronde (1648–1653)—A series of violent uprisings during the early reign of Louis XIV triggered by growing royal control and oppressive taxation and involving nobles and common people, including those in the Parlement of Paris.

◦3. Cardinal Mazarin—(1602–1661)

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Louis XIV and Absolutism ◦When Mazarin died in 1661, Louis declared himself his

own prime minister.

◦L’etat, c’est moi”

◦ Firmly believed in the divine right theory, which he thought justified his absolute power-he was responsible to no man or group.

◦He was the most absolutist monarch in the age of absolutism. He would reign for 72 years.

◦ -It was golden age of culture for France under Louis XIV-France became the “universal tongue”

◦ -French literature and style(in dress, furniture, architecture) became the standard by which all Europeans measured their sophistication.

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What elements of this painting signify the king’s preeminence?

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◦ -Louis distrusted the nobility because of the Fronde, and to further dominate them,, he moved his palace 12 miles outside of Paris, the chateaux Versailles. He spent untold sums of money in doing this. ◦ -The most extravagant Europe had ever seen. It was both his personal household and

held the operations of government. ◦ -Eventually 10,000 noblemen and servants lived there, hoping to acquire

government jobs.

◦ -60 % of the royal tax revenue went to the maintenance of Versailles.

◦Nobles stayed busy with court intrigue, gossip, gambling, and competition over things like who got to hold the king’s sleeve while he dressed. Life at Versailles was a huge ceremony. Called it the “captive nobility”-participation in court life was a social requirement.

◦ -His financial minister was Jean Baptiste Colbert-followed mercantilist policies-build supply of gold by exporting.

◦He also revoked the Edict of Nantes-demolished Huguenot churches and schools; exiled 200,000.

◦Big on religious unity.

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Louis XIV and War◦War was an instrument of Louis’ foreign policy-for 2/3 of his reign, France was at

war. The Treaty of Westphalia had weakened the Hapsburgs so much that Bourbons took advantage of it.

◦There were 4 major wars: French army was called the Huns of the 17th c.

◦1. Devolution-1667-1668-attempt to seize the Spanish Netherlands (Belgium). Unsuccessful.

◦2. Dutch War-1672-1678-He invaded Holland-William of Orange opened up the dikes and flooded them.

◦3. League of Augsburg-1688-1697-trying to expand to the Rhine River. William had become King of England in 1689 and took lead in forming an alliance against him.

◦4. War of Spanish Succession-1702-1714-When the last Hapsburg King of Spain died, he granted the throne to Louis’ grandson (Philip of Anjou). This meant potential unification of Spain and France-it was a big deal. Major states of western Europe combined to prevent this. Worried about the balance of power

◦Treaty of Utrecht-1713-Philip V remained on Spanish throne, but no ruler could ever rule both Spain and France.

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◦Although his reign solidified central government of France, his wars exhausted the treasury/

◦Left the bourgeoisie and peasantry with enormous tax burden and his personal extravagance aggravated the situation.

◦The seeds for revolution were sown in the national debt that had to be paid off by the 3rd estate.

◦He left France in debt and surrounded by enemies.

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VI. Spanish absolutism and decline

A. Decline of the Spanish economy in the 17th century1. The Spanish economy was hurt by the loss of

middle class Moors and Jews.• The population of Spain shrank from 7.5

million in 1550 to 5.5 million in 1660.2. Spanish trade with its colonies fell 60% between

1610 and 1660.• This was largely due to English and Dutch

competition.

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3. The Spanish treasury was bankrupt and had to repudiate its debts at various times between 1594 and 1680.

4. National taxes hit the peasantry particularly hard.a. Many peasants were driven from the

countryside and swelled the ranks of the poor in cities.

b. Food production decreased as a result.

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5. Inflation from the “price revolution” hurt domestic industries that were unable to export goods.

6. A poor work ethic stunted economic growth.a. Upper classes eschewed work and continued a

life of luxuryb. Many noble titles were purchased which

provided tax exemptions for the wealthy.c. Capitalism was far less prevalent than it was in

the Netherlands and England.

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B. Political and military decline1. Symbolically, England’s defeat of the

Spanish Armada in 1588 was once seen by some historians as the beginning of the decline of the Spanish empire.• However, Spain had the most formidable

military until the mid-17th century.

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ABSOLUTISM IN AUSTRIA & PRUSSIA

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The Return of Serfdom in the East

◦1. Erosion of Peasant Liberties—◦Peasant lords dealt with labor shortages caused by the Black Death by

restricting their peasants’ right to move. ◦In Prussia by 1500, runaway peasants were required to be returned to

their lords, and the lords imposed heavier labor obligations (peasants in some regions were required to work six days a week for the lords).

◦2. local lord was also the local prosecutor, judge, and jailer. ◦ There were no independent royal officials to provide justice or uphold the common law.

◦Peasants required permission to marry or could be forced to marry and lords could sell serfs apart from their families.

◦3. Growth of Commercial Agriculture—◦Eastern lords squeezed surpluses out of their peasants and sold their grain

directly to the growing cities of western Europe (bypassing local towns that declined in size and importance.

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Habsburg Empire in 1700

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The Austrian Habsburgs 1. Habsburgs emerged from the Thirty Years’ War exhausted and impoverished, and real power was in the hands of many separate political jurisdictions.

◦ focused inward and eastward to unify their holdings.

2. Bohemia—

◦ The Habsburgs under Ferdinand II (r. 1619–1637) reduced the power of the Bohemian Estates, the largely Protestant representative assembly,

◦ confiscated lands of Protestant nobles, and worsened the condition of the enserfed peasantry. All these changes created absolutist rule in Bohemia.

3. Hungary—The Habsburgs expelled the Ottomans from most of Hungary and Transylvania from 1683 to 1699, but the Hungarian nobility thwarted the full development of Habsburg absolutism.

◦Hungary was never fully integrated into a centralized, absolute Habsburg state as was Austria and Bohemia.

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Prussia in the 17th Century◦1. Hohenzollerns—family in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that ruled parts of eastern Germany as imperial electors in Brandenburg and dukes of Prussia. ◦In 1640, Frederick William, (“Great Elector”) worked to unify the Prussian state and enlarge his territory. ◦2. Junkers—The nobility of Brandenburg and Prussia who were reluctant allies of Frederick William in his consolidation of the Prussian state.◦3. The Absolutist Solution—In 1660, Frederick William convinced the Junkers to accept royal taxation to fund the army in exchange for authority over the serfs. ◦This gave the king power to crush any opposition from the towns. ◦He tripled state revenue during his reign and built a huge army.

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Prussia under the Hohenzollern Family

• Hohenzollern rulers of the 17th and 18th Centuries

• Frederick William, the Great Elector r.1640-1688

• Frederick I r.1688-1713

• Frederick William I r.1713-1740

• Frederick the Great r.1740-1786

• The history of Prussia is largely the history of this family that first became rulers of Brandenburg in the early 15th Century

• They were absolutists devoted to the military and are a major reason why Prussia became a nation devoted to militarism; meaning military values permeated all spheres of life

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Prussia under the Hohenzollern Family◦Rule of Frederick William, the Great Elector ◦Raised taxes through force to build an army◦ Junkers, the German noble landlords in return for obedience to

Frederick could enforce serfdom◦Army and Elector become powerful allies

◦Frederick William’s successors◦His son, William I, helps Hapsburgs in War of Spanish Succession and

becomes King of Prussia◦Frederick William I – most successful Prussian leader – made the

strongest army in Europe the symbol of power and unity, while staying out of war

◦Frederick II or Great – did not have wisdom of his father and invaded Silesia starting long Austrian-Prussian rivalry

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Russia – The Romanov Dynasty Russia did not emerge as a power in Europe until the late seventeenth century. Politically and geographically, it lay on the periphery and never emerged as a major

commercial power because it lacked consistent access to warm-water ports.

Ivan IV (The Terrible)-first Czar (1583-1584) Reign began sensibly, but underwent a personality change-turned him into a tyrant who ruled

through terror and repression. Had St. Basil’s Cathedral built Time of Troubles

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Russia – The Romanov DynastyRomanov Dynasty begins under Mikhail Romanov

Elected by group of nobles at 16 to end the Time of Troubles Dynasty would rule until 1917

Important Achievements of Romanovs Gained land in Ukraine from Poland in 1667 and conquered the

rest of Siberia by the end of the century. The army and the bureaucracy grew considerably during this

period profits from Siberia’s natural resources funded Russian imperialist

expansion in the east but the boyars, (old nobility) still retained a lot of bureaucratic

power and the streltsy, or guards of the Moscow garrison remained a threat

to mutiny against the czar.

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Peter the Great◦Came to power at 10- believed that the power of the tsar must be secure from the

jealousy and greed of the boyars, the old nobility, and the streltsy, the guards of the Moscow garrison◦ publicly executed rebellious streltsy and repressed and humiliated the boyars

◦Wanted to increase Russian military power, so he drafted an army of 300,000 soldiers

◦Built a navy on the Baltic Sea and began a war with the Ottomans in 1695 to protect his interests in the Black Sea.

◦The Great Northern War – 1700-1721-Peter defeats the Swedes and takes control of Estonia, Livonia, parts of Finland-ice-free port and permanent influence in world affairs-Battle of Poltava

◦St. Petersburg – built a capital in honor of himself with places forcibly built by the boyars that resembled small versions of Versailles

◦Peter’s son, Aleksei, with Charles VI of Hapsburg, attempts a conspiracy against Peter and is sentenced to death; dies in prison under mysterious circumstances

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Peter the Great◦Modernization and westernization◦Required nobles to shave their beards and wear western clothing◦Ordered them to attend parties and socialize ◦Freely choose spouses◦Many nobles hated system of unigeniture◦Gap between rich and poor increased

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wojI4sQO5M0&list=PLfzs_X6OQBOxudw-bxvxBuTWvh6bwaVhQ&index=24

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The Ottoman Government◦Religious toleration existed more there than anywhere else in Europe

◦Sultans governed their empire through millets – officially recognized religious communities

◦Still some religious discrimination – dhimmis – non-Islamic persons in the Empire could worship, but couldn’t rise in power, had to pay a poll tax, could not serve in the military and were prevented from wearing certain colors

◦Devshirme – Christian boys recruited and raised as Muslims and put into the military as infantry troops known as Janissaries.

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The End of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottomans attempt to expand their empire into Europe, but fail

The power of the main political figure, the vizier, grows and splits up the empire

Europe passes the Ottomans in learning, science, and military prowess

Ottomans suffer military losses to the united European states and Russia and in consequence lose land and revenue

Europe sees the Ottoman Empire as one in decline and Islam as an inferior religion

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Poland with No Central Authority

◦Most Polish monarchs were foreigners and tools for foreign powers◦Had a central legislative body called the Sejm or diet, but it had no real power as any single veto, liberum veto, could stop a Sejm◦Poland disappears from map in 18th century as a result

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