1. Absolutism
And Religious Wars

3. France Problems (from about 1600) Cardinal Richelieu Religious
Economic
Weak kings (Louis XIII)
Cardinal Richelieu
De facto ruler
Manipulated foreign affairs
Suppressed the Huguenots
Established central taxation
Three Musketeers

4. “What is done for the state is done for God, who is the basis and foundation of it......Where the interests of the state are concerned, God absolves actions which, if privately committed, would be a crime.”
— Cardinal Richelieu

5. "If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him."                                     —Cardinal Richelieu

6. France Louis XIV Boy king
Assumed total authority when Cardinal Mazarin, successor to Richelieu, died
Influenced by his mistresses
Wars, destablization

7. France Louis XIV Golden Age Mercantilism Repeal of the Edict of Nantes
The Sun King
L'état c'est moi
Versailles
French culture = prestige
Mercantilism
Repeal of the Edict of Nantes

8. Periods from 1500 to the present:
– dominated by the issue of what to believe in religion [the 1st estate];
– dominated by the issue of the mode of government [the 2nd estate];
1790-present – dominated by the issue of social and economic equality [the 3rd estate].
– from Barzun, Jacques, From Dawn to Decadence, Perennial, 2000, p.xxi.

9. Germany Divided by the Reformation The Thirty Years War
Population losses in Germany
as a result of the Thirty Years War
Divided by the Reformation
The Thirty Years War

10. Austria Ruled by Hapsburgs Hapsburgs married other royal families
Resignation of Charles V
Separation into Spanish and Austrian branches
Hapsburgs married other royal families
Grew the Holy Roman Empire

11. Spain Decline Effects of Thirty Years War War of Spanish Succession
Spanish armada defeat
Economic difficulties
Effects of Thirty Years War
War of Spanish Succession
Alliance with France but both possessions
Hudson Bay basin
Portugal, Naples & Sicily, Netherlands

13. Russia Romanoff family united people Descendants of Roman Empire
Ivan I married daughter of last Byzantine emperor
Caesar = Tsar
Ivan IV (the terrible)
Peter the Great

14. Lands added by Peter the Great

15. Thank You

16. Witch Hunts Viewed as evils of Catholicism
Killed throughout central Europe
Spilled into American colonies