1. Section 3 Response to Crisis: Absolutism. The emergence of Absolute power.

2. Response to Crisis in Europe Increasing monarchies power=stability –Absolutism: ruler holds total power –Divine Right power from God & answer only to God

3. (Absolutism of France) Model of Absolutism Louis XIII-King age 9 Chief minister: Cardinal Richelieu –Goal: strong monarchy Took away political & military rights of Huguenots Executed threats Louis XIV- king age 4 –Chief minister Cardinal Mazarin Took power from nobles =strong central gov

4. Louis XIV (4 th ) “Sun King” Lived at Versailles 1.House of Louis XIV 2.state offices 3.Home of officials (nobles)- didn’t trust. –busy court life- kept out of politics –Kept at Versailles- watched –Help control providences Louis XIV’s absolute power over policy Church –Huguenots to Catholicism Taxes

5. Louis XIV Economy & War Economy –Jean-Baptiste Colbert -finances mercantilism –decreased imports –high tariffs –increased exports –built roads, canals & merchant fleet –subsidies ($) to new industries Military –Large army =power/ competitor –4wars –goal-territory=power nations form coalitions-prevent French domination Died 1715 –debt & enemies

6. Absolutism in Central & Eastern Europe After 30 yrs War -300 German states –Prussia Absolutist Leader: Frederick William the Great Elector –large army –General War Commissariat: taxes for the army & civil gov. agency –Austria large empire Couldn’t become absolutist state –too many nationalities Common ruler-Hapsburg emperor

7. Russia -Peter the Great Ivan IV: first czar (Absolutist) –“Ivan the Terrible” –Expanded territory eastward –Crushed nobilities ( boyars) power –Dynasty ended in 1598 “Time of Troubles” –Michael Romanov czar 1613 Romanov dynasty lasted until 1917

8. Russia Under Peter the Great Peter the Great: Romanov dynasty –Absolutist monarch-czar 1689 –“Europeanize” Russia technology customs Western trade port –St. Petersburg (capital) –Military Drafted peasants (serve 25 yr) massive army & navy=power Divided Russia into provinces –“police states” of well ordered communities