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1st Bourbon King of France
"Paris is worth a Mass"
Est. nobles of the robe as a source of income by selling royal and gov't. offices that were tax exempt and a legacy. |
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| Royal advisor to Anne of Austria, mother of Louis XIV. |
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Position created by Richelieu.
Loyal agents of the king who carried out orders.
Helped reduce the control of local nobles and agents. |
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Managed affairs of France during Louis' youth
Advisor to Louis XIV
Managed the state of France through the Frondes.
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Series of battles between the nobles and the centralizing efforts of Mazarin.
Louis XIV witnessed one of the battles and built Versailles as the royal estate outside Paris to remove the nobles from traditional powers. |
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"I am the state."
Louis XIV |
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| First war of Louis XIV that marks the beginning of European warfare with affairs of state taking priority over religious issues. |
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| Last of Louis XIV's wars fought to determine the successor to the Spanish throne from 1701-14. |
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| War of Spanish Succession |
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| Statistician who helped Louis XV manage the financial gamble known as the Mississippi Bubble. |
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| Elderly and conservative advisor to Louis XV. |
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| Primary goal of the period of absolutism |
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| Centralization of finance, military and other affairs of state around the power of the monarch |
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| Greatest challenge for absolute monarchs in centralizing and defending or expanding the claims of the realm. |
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| Finding sources of revenue |
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| Economic system that complimented absolutism. |
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| Government empowered by business interests. |
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| The enlightened king of Prussia who annexed Silesia from the Austro-Hungarian empire |
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| Frederick II, "The Great" |
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| Issued by Charles VI to help insure the recognition by the other states of Europe of a woman as ruler of the Austrian Habsburgs after the death of the male heirs. |
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| First female ruler of the Austrian Habsburgs and mother of Marie Antoinette |
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| Group within the Austro-Hungarian empire that continuously challenged the centralizing efforts of Maria Theresa. |
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| William III's nationality and family of origin |
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Cause of the Anglo-Dutch Wars
1672-1784 |
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| Trade restrictions imposed by the Brits that threatened Dutch trading interests. |
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| The royal family of Russia that ruled starting with Ivan I and ending with Nicholas II in 1917. |
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| The Ivan that was the most "terrible" |
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| Period of Russian history after the death of Ivan the Terrible and the beginning of the reign of Sophia and Peter I |
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Time of Troubles
Instablity and battles between noble families competing for power. |
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| streltsy- Uprising of 1698 |
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| Royal guards who launched an uprising against the rule of Peter the Great. They were disbanded and many imprisoned ,tortured ,and executed |
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| First Romanov who married in the Russian Orthodox church and adopted it's symbol of the double eagle for Russia and the crown. |
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| Last of Great Northern Wars between Russia and Sweden. A decisive victory for Peter and the end of Swedish dominance. |
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| Great Northern Wars, 1700-21 |
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| Series of wars instigated by Peter I against Norway and Sweden to help secure Russian control of the Baltic region. |
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Louis's Finance minister
reorganized the collection and management of state monies
Created free trade zones within France |
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