Ap Euro Chapter 16

-taxation -the government had to fund the army which wasted government money -war

-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 -

-ruled by the grace of God -the beginning of divine right

-oligrachies of wealthy merchants and financiers

;-provoked by the territorial disputes of the previous century -also, the dynastic question of the succession to the Spanish throne - -results -Louis

-lack of middle class -no flow of sliver

-Henry

-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 -

-created absolutism in France-was shown in his administrative system

-the nobles were the biggest threat-the foreign ones were against the Hapsburg

-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

-became Catholic so that they would be able to go to Versailles -if they knew Louis XIV, they got offices -they left Calvinism -

-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

-the Peace of Utrecht, signed in 1713 to end the war, marked the beginning of the Dutch economic decline

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