Section 3 Response to Crisis Absolutism Big Idea

Section 3 Response to Crisis: Absolutism. Big Idea: The emergence of Absolute power.

Response to Crisis in Europe l Increasing monarchies power=stability – Absolutism: ruler holds total power – Divine Right • power from God & answer only to God

(Absolutism of France) Louis XIII • Chief minister: Cardinal Richelieu – Goal: strong monarchy • Took political & military rights of Huguenots • Executed threats l Louis XIV – Chief minister: Cardinal Mazarin • Took power from nobles l

Louis XIV th (14 ) “Sun King” Lived at Versailles 1. House of Louis XIV 2. state offices & officials home (nobles)-didn’t trust. – busy court life- kept out of politics l Louis XIV’s absolute power over • policy • Church – Huguenots to Catholicism • Taxes l

Louis XIV Economy & War Economy – Jean-Baptiste Colbert -finances • mercantilism – decreased imports – increased exports – subsidies ($) to new industries l Military – Large army =power/ competitor – 4 wars –goal-territory=power • Coalitions form against France l Died 1715 – debt & enemies l

Other’s who follow Absolutism – Prussia • Frederick William the Great Elector – General War Commissariat: taxes for large army & civil gov. agency – Russian Czars (monarch) • Ivan the Terrible – Crushed Boyars (nobilities) power – Peter the Great • “Europeanize” Russia • Enlarged army-draft peasants