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Title: Absolutism


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Absolutism
  • Consolidation of Power

2
Monarchies
  • Absolute Monarchy
  • Divine Right of Kings
  • Limited Monarchy

3
Why was Europe in need of absolute monarchies?
  • Decline of feudalism
  • Rise in political power by the Middle Class
  • Rise of Nationalism
  • Rise of Cities
  • Monarchs control of the colonies
  • Decline of Church authority

4
Dynasties of Absolute Monarchies
  • The Hapsburgs in Spain and the Netherlands
  • The Hapsburgs in Austria
  • The Hohenzollern of Prussia
  • The Bourbon family in France
  • The Romanovs of Russia

5
Spanish Empire
  • Philip II

6
Central Europe
  • Hapsburgs Hohenzollerns

Maria Theresa of Austria
Frederick the Great of Prussia
7
French Empire
Henry of Navarre, the future King Henry IV
8
French Empire
Cardinal Richelieu
Louis XIII
9
French Empire
Louis XIV
Cardinal Mazarin
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Russian Empire
Catherine the Great
Peter the Great
Ivan IV
13
England and the Limited Monarchy
  • Growth of Parliament
  • English Civil War
  • Commonwealth
  • Restoration
  • Glorious Revolution

Charles I
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Decline of Absolute Monarchies
  • Enlightenment ideas
  • Spread of ideas of independence/ freedom
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