Ap Euro Chapter 16

Ap euro chapter 16

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French financial weakness
-taxation -the government had to fund the army which wasted government money -war
Peace of Utrecht
-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 -
Medieval kings/rule
-ruled by the grace of God -the beginning of divine right
Dutch political power
-oligrachies of wealthy merchants and financiers
War of Spanish Succession;causes and results
;-provoked by the territorial disputes of the previous century -also, the dynastic question of the succession to the Spanish throne - -results -Louis� grandson Philip was king of Spain -France surrendered Newfoundland, Nova, Scotia, and the Hudson Bay territory to England
Decline of Spain
-lack of middle class -no flow of sliver
Sully
-Henry�s chief minister -with Henry, he restored public order in France and laid the foundations for economic prosperity -
Intendants
-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 -
Richelieu�s genius
-created absolutism in France-was shown in his administrative system
Richelieu�s domestic policies; foreign policies
-the nobles were the biggest threat-the foreign ones were against the Hapsburg
Navigation Act
-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
Louis and Huguenots
-became Catholic so that they would be able to go to Versailles -if they knew Louis XIV, they got offices -they left Calvinism -
Hobbes
-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�
Decline of the Dutch
-the Peace of Utrecht, signed in 1713 to end the war, marked the beginning of the Dutch economic decline
Richelieu�s justification
-raison d�etat