How did absolutist rulers change life and policy in their countries?

Absolutist rulers changed life and policy in their country by creating political goals and accomplishments, that should be followed by the country's citizens. Some changes were good to all citizens, however sometimes it was bad, as an example, when Elizabeth I united the church with the state it was not good for powerful people and for the church, whom had lost their power. Absolutist rules had the power to change a hole country and let a legacy, and all of them did that, made changes not  just for themselves, but also, for their country and for their people.

Response to Crisis: Absolutism

Accomplishments of Peter the Great:

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     Reforms: 

1. reorganize the army
2. introduce Western customs, practices, and manners into Russia
3. domestic reforms

     Government:

1. absolutist monarch
2. military monarch
3. police state

Sequencing Events:

1613, Romanov dynasty begins in Russia.

1643, Louis XIV comes to the French throne at age four.

1703, Construction of St. Petersburg begins.

1725, Peter the Great dies.

France Under Louis XIV

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Reviewing:

      Government: 

• Louis XIV had control of the central policymaking machinery of government.
• The royal court served three purposes: 

1. personal household.
2. the chief offices of the state were there.
3. was the place where powerful subjects came to find favors and offices for themselves.

• Had complete authority over the traditional areas of royal power: foreign policy, the Church and taxes.

      Economics:

• Finances was a crucial issue.
• To increase the wealth and power by following the ideas of mercantilism.
• Decrease imports and increase exports.

      Religion:

• Anti-Protestant policy aimed at converting the Huguenots to Catholicism.

Terms To Know:

      Absolutism: government by an absolute ruler or authority.

      Deviated: being the only one.

      Sole: to depart from a course.

Terms To Review:

      Stability: the quality or state of being stable; healty.

      Aware: knowing and understanding a lot about what is happening in the world around you.

Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe

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Analysing:

      The Austrian monarch was unable to create a bigbly centralized, absolutist state, because it was made up of so many different national groups.

Terms To Review:

       Significant: very important.

Russia Under Peter The Great

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       Cultural Change: introduced Westerm customs, practices, and manners into Russia. 
       Military and Governmental Changes: one of Pater's first goals was to reorganize the army.

       St. Petersburg: was finished during Peter's lifetime and remained the Russian capital until 1918.

Terms To Know: 

       Czar: the Russian word for caeser.

       Boyar: the power of Russian nobility.

       Drafted: a system in which young people are required to join the armed forces of a country for a period of service. 

       Credit: a record o how well you have paid your bills in the past.  

Wrap Up

       What is Absolutism? Absolutism is a system in which a ruler holds total power.

       Besides France, what other European states practiced absolutism? Other European states which practiced absolutism was,  Austria and Russia.

French Wars' of Religion

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            Causes and effects of the French Wars of Religion:

• http://www.lepg.org/wars.htm
• http://faculty.ucc.edu/egh-damerow/french_wars_of_religion.htm

Militant Catholicism 

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              Militant Catholicism and its effects:

• http://honorshistory10.weebly.com/philip-ii-and-militant-catholicism.html
• https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090227144915AAKqWQu

Thirty Years' War

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             Causes and results of the Thirty Years' War:

• http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/592619/Thirty-Years-War
• http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/civil_n2/histscript6_n2/thirty1.html

English and Glorious Revolution

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            The significance of the English and Glorious Revolution:

• http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/547105/Glorious-Revolution
• http://faculty.ucc.edu/egh-damerow/glorious_revolution.htm

Absolutism

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            The absolutism of Louis XIV, Ivan the Terrible, and Peter the Great:

• http://www.june29.com/tyler/nonfiction/absolute.html
• http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1824/absolutism

Absolute and Constitutional Monarchy

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          Difference between and Absolute Monarchy and a Constitutional Monarchy:

• https://pt.scribd.com/doc/82006699/Difference-Between-Absolute-Monarchy-and-Constitutional-Monarchy
• http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/politics/difference-between-absolute-monarchy-and-constitutional-monarchy/

16th's and 17th's Movements in Art

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           Significant movements in art, literature, and philosophy in the 16th and 17th centuries:

• http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/cinquecento.htm
• http://all-that-is-interesting.com/seventeenth-century-art-most-significant-artists-of-the-baroque-period