Aim How did Louis and the Bourbon Dynasty

Aim: How did Louis and the Bourbon Dynasty gain, maintain and consolidate power? Do Now: 1. Page 39 Edict of 1635 2. Turn to page 45 in packet. What do the symbols represent? Homework: In Class Essay Friday – Compare Contrast Tokogowa and Bourbon

Who has power? What gave that person power?

Legitimacy • People who are being governed believe their leader has the right to lead them. • The justification to rule. • Another way of saying “What gives you the right? ”

How do rulers legitimize their rule? (aka acquire power. Keep power, maintain power)

1. Charismatic Authority • A leader attracts followers because of his/her magnetic personality, heroic military victories, and/or appeals to common emotional ties as race, ethnicity, religion, and common culture. Can you think of charismatic leaders from history?

2. Traditional Authority: • A leader that appeals to the way we have done things in the past. • Hereditary (Blood line) - The eldest son of the king becomes king. Can you think of examples of leaders with traditional authority?

3. Rational-legal Authority: • A leader promises to uphold and enforce the laws that apply to all people. The leader must carefully follow the laws that define his or her role. Such a leader faces the possibility of being removed from office if he/she acts arbitrarily. • Any democratically elected official Can you think of examples of leaders with Rational/legal authority? What countries have rational legal leaders?

How do rulers gain, consolidate and maintain power? Do now: take out pp. 39 on the Edict of 1635

How does an absolute ruler gain, consolidate and maintain power?

RULER

Uses armies to expand or consolidate borders under the ruler’s control RULER

Limits or controls the power of nobles Uses armies to expand or consolidate borders under the ruler’s control RULER

Limits or controls the power of nobles Uses armies to expand or consolidate borders under the ruler’s control Controls religious authorities RULER

Limits or controls the power of nobles Uses armies to expand or consolidate borders under the ruler’s control Controls religious authorities RULER Makes the laws Dispenses Justice

Limits or controls the power of nobles Uses armies to expand or consolidate borders under the ruler’s control RULER Controls religious authorities Th e r ate of er w po Circumvents, ignores, or uses assemblies to approve or rubber-stamp the ruler’s initiatives Makes the laws Dispenses Justice

How did Louis XIV gain, maintain and consolidate power? Task: Read page 43 – 44. 1. How did Louis GAIN and MAINTAIN power in France? Find three examples. 2. How did Louis’ rule benefit France? What are some of the negative effects of Louis’s rule?

Limits or controls the power of nobles Uses armies to expand or consolidate borders under the ruler’s control RULER Controls religious authorities Th e r ate of er w po Circumvents, ignores, or uses assemblies to approve or rubber-stamp the ruler’s initiatives Makes the laws Dispenses Justice

The Bourbon Dynasty What is divine right?

Divine Right Theory • God created the state and gave “royalty” the divine right to rule. • King claims to be a representative of God • Use of divine right increases monarchs power. • People had to obey the king because they were chosen by God

Louis XIV – The Sun King “I am the state”

Video clips – How does Louis XIV consolidate and maintain power? Start at 10: 00

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Versailles

Hall of Mirrors

Library

Royal Chapel

Queen’s Bedroom

Cabinet of the Meridian: Queens Chamber

Dauphin and Dauphine’s Rooms

Apollo Drawing Room

Mars Drawing Room

King’s room

Hercules Salon – part of the King’s apartment

Gardens

Louis XIV Rules France • cancelled the Edict of Nantes, • has a huge royal court • was a patron of the arts, • built a HUGE palace at Versailles • got France involved in many disastrous wars, including the War of the Spanish Succession • Overall Louis made France stronger, but by the time he died, people resent his power and the high taxes in France, leaving France ripe for revolution

Aim: How do rulers gain, maintain and consolidate power? Compare/contrast Bourbon and Tokogowa. Do Now: Read page 40 – 41 on Tokogawa Shogunate. Homework: In Class Essay Friday – Compare Contrast Tokogowa and Bourbon

Ieyasu Tokugawa 1600 -1616 • “Centralized Feudalism” ? ? ? • Restricted the Daimyo (nobility) – Forced to live at Edo (Tokoyo) – Needed consent to marry & build • • Unified Japan- shift center of power Confucian code of ethics/Buddhist Restricted/Limited trade Later closed the country to foreigners- isolationism

Limits or controls the power of nobles Uses armies to expand or consolidate borders under the ruler’s control Controls religious authorities Expels Christians and foreigners and isolates Japan Ieyasu Tokugawa RULER Daimyo must send family members to live in Edo Makes the laws Dispenses Justice All laws must be approved by Shogun Emperor is a figurehead

Compare and Contrast