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French financial weakness
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-taxation
-the government had to fund the army which wasted
government money
-war
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Peace of Utrecht
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-represented the balance of power principle in operation
-completed the decline of Spain as a great power
-expanded the Bristish empire
-the end of French expansionist policy
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Medieval kings/rule
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-ruled by the grace of God
-the beginning of divine right
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Dutch political power
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-oligrachies of wealthy merchants and financiers
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War of Spanish Succession;causes and results
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;-provoked by the territorial disputes of the previous century
-also, the dynastic question of the succession to the Spanish
throne
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-results
-Louis� grandson Philip was king of Spain
-France surrendered Newfoundland, Nova, Scotia, and the
Hudson Bay territory to England
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Decline of Spain
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-lack of middle class
-no flow of sliver
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Sully
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-Henry�s chief minister
-with Henry, he restored public order in France and laid the
foundations for economic prosperity
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Intendants
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-royal commissioners
-transmitted info from local communities to Paris and
delivered royal orders from the capital to their generalites
-were appointed directly by the monarch
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Richelieu�s genius
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-created absolutism in France-was shown in his administrative system
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Richelieu�s domestic policies; foreign policies
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-the nobles were the biggest threat-the foreign ones were against the Hapsburg
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Navigation Act
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-in 1651
-by Cromwell
-it required that all English goods be transported on English
ships
-it was a great boost to the development of an English
merchant marine
-it brought about a short but successful war with the Dutch
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Louis and Huguenots
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-became Catholic so that they would be able to go to
Versailles
-if they knew Louis XIV, they got offices
-they left Calvinism
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Hobbes
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-English philosopher and political theorist
-in Leviathan, he maintains that sovereignty is derived
from the people, who transfer it to the monarchy by
implicit contrast
-his view did not please anyone
-people and monarchy
-said that �life is nasty, brutal, and short�
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Decline of the Dutch
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-the Peace of Utrecht, signed in 1713 to end the war,
marked the beginning of the Dutch economic decline
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Richelieu�s justification
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-raison d�etat
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