1. Warm Up Part 2 List 5 characteristics of a good leader
List 5 characteristics of a bad leader
Do you think a leader should have complete power (absolute power) over an entire country? Why or Why not?
Does President Trump have absolute power?

2. The Age of Absolutism

3. The Theory of Absolutism
European monarchs tried to claim the authority to rule without limits
Goal- to control all aspects of society
Divine Right- the idea that God created the monarchy and the monarchy acted as God’s representative on Earth
Answered only to God, not to the people

4. What else was happening in Europe
A rise of cites
A rise in Middle Class merchants…… which usually backed monarchies
Monarchs use their wealthy colonies to pay for their ambitions- Mercantilism
Church authority broke down, the Reformation and 30 years war occurred
Religious and territorial disputes between states led to almost constant warfare
Some people wanted a strong leader to guide them through all the problems and changes taking place

5. Review Questions
1.What did Absolute Monarchs believe?
2. What is divine Right?
3. What did absolute monarchs control?

6. France
And
Louis XIV

9. Louis XIV Ruling Family - Bourbons
“I am the State”
“L'état, c’est moi”
Call me the “Sun King” because all that is good radiates from me
How Louis gained Absolute Power
1. Weaken the power of nobles, so that nobody could threaten his power
Kept his enemies close. They worked at his palace
2. Increased the power of government workers, but watched them closely

10. Wanted France to make all its own goods
3. Hired Jean Baptiste Colbert as Minster of Finance. He tried to make France Self-sufficient using Mercantilism. People loved Colbert, because he greatly improved the economy
Wanted France to make all its own goods
Placed high tariffs on goods from other countries
Encouraged people to move to France's colonies to help export more raw materials to France
Fur trade from the Americas added money for France

11. Louis Grand Style 1. Louis surrounded himself with the finest of items
Do not write
Each meal was a feast with over 500 cooks
Louis was awakened everyday at 7:30 and outside stood 100 nobles all waiting to help him dress, however, only 4 were given the honor of getting him his slippers

12. The Palace of Versailles
2. He built a huge palace, The Palace of Versailles, 11 miles outside of Paris
15,000 acres of gardens
1,400 fountains
36,000 laborers
6,000 horses
2,000 rooms
2 billion dollars

15. Louis' Downfall
1. Under Louis, France was the most powerful country in Europe with nearly 20 million people, but he made some fatal flaws
After Baptiste died Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes. Many skilled protestant artisans and businessmen fled to other countries , thus robbing France of many skilled workers
In a series of wars France tried to increase its boundaries. He won a couple territories. However, a European alliance, was formed against France and Louis was stopped.

16. Louis's Downfall
France was also weekend by a series of bad harvests, and high taxes imposed to support the cost of war
France was forced to give Britain its North American territories after they lost the Seven Years War

17. Questions
How did Louis make sure he kept his power?
Where did Louis live?
How did Louis XIV bring disaster to France?

18. Prussia and Frederick the Great

21. Prussia Ruling Family - Hohenzollern
1. Prussia was a new state to the north of Austria
2. It will later form part of Germany
3. Prussia rose to power in late 1600s
4. Like the Hapsburgs of Austria, Prussia’s ruling family the Hohenzollerns had big dreams
Prussia Ruling Family - Hohenzollern

22. Frederick the Great
5. Frederick William created a society based on a strong military and paid for it with mandatory taxation. Wanted to avoid another major war, like the 30 Year War
6. Frederick The Great followed in his father’s footsteps and maintained a strong military society

23. 2. What was Prussia’s society based on?
Questions
1. Who was the greatest monarch for Prussia?
2. What was Prussia’s society based on?

24. Ruling Family - Romanovs
Russia
And
Peter the Great

26. Background – Do not write
Ivan IV, called Ivan the Terrible was Russia’s first Czar
Good- gained territory, and developed a code of laws
He was constantly fighting with the boyars, or landowning BAD- His wife was murdered and to avenge her death he hunted down anyone he thought was a traitor and killed them, usually the boyars
“Secret Police” killed thousands
After Ivan, Russia fell into a period of turmoil
Russia needed a strong leader

27. Peter the Great
Peter took the throne in Russia was still a land of serfs and boyars- very underdeveloped
2. Russia was cut off from Western Europe and new advancements
Mongols kept them isolated during the Renaissance and Age of Exploration
Geographic barriers isolated Russia-ICE
Religious differences separated them- Russia was Eastern Orthodox

28. Peter the Great 3. Peter visits Western Europe and finds
New inventions and tools
Ships and exploration
Peter believed Russia needed a warm water port to help modernize the country

29. Peter the Great
4. Peter’s main goal- westernize Russia
5. Peter believed he needed absolute control to help westernize the country

30. How He Westernized Russia
Brought the Eastern Orthodox church under his control
took power away from landowners
Modernized the army with western weapons and tactics
New army meant taxes for all
Introduced potatoes
Started a newspaper
Increased women’s rights
Ordered nobles to wear western fashions
Building a new Capital- Saint Petersburg

31. Peter the Great Peter created a new capital
1. Peter went to war with Sweden to gain control of the Baltic Coast, after 21 years he won.
2. He built Saint Petersburg on the formally owned Swedish land.
3. 25,000 to 100,000 people died while making the new capital
4. Saint Petersburg’s location on a warm water port allowed Russia to trade year round

33. Questions
1. Who was Russia’s greatest monarch?
Why was Russia Isolated?
How did Peter help westernize Russia?

34. England
Ruling families: Tudors
King Henry VIII
Elizabeth I