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.