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Absolutism - Correct Answers ✅✅Monarch claims absolute power
often through divine right; involved the decrease of noble power and
the creation of a bureaucracy which directed economic life by forcing
tax increases or other means of raising revenue; kings also employed
armies and controlled all aspects of gov
Jean Bodin - Correct Answers ✅✅16th century English writer who
was the first to provide a theoretical basis for absolutist states; wrote
during French Civil wars and came to strongly support the divine right
of kings; believed only absolutism could provide order
Thomas Hobbes - Correct Answers ✅✅wrote the Leviathan (1651);
claimed that the state of natureal human life was poor before
organized society; people contracted a commonwealth of gov to
prevent chaos; commonwealth had unlimited, absolute power and
subjects were not to rebel
Bishop Bousset - Correct Answers ✅✅French theologian and court
preacher who was one of the chief theorists of divine right monarchy in
the 17th century; wrote "Politics Drawn from the Very Words of the
Holy Scripture" which supported divine right
Divine right of kings - Correct Answers ✅✅idea used to support
absolutism which held that right to rule comes from God; monarchs
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were responsible to no one but God (not even parliaments); limits on
power only came in fear of God's judgement
First Estate - Correct Answers ✅✅first class of French society made
up of clergy (the church)
Second Estate - Correct Answers ✅✅second class of French
society; had most power; made up of nobles
Third Estate - Correct Answers ✅✅third and last class of French
society; made up of peasants, the urban poor, the working class, the
middle class, and the bourgeoisie
Henry IV - Correct Answers ✅✅first Bourbon king and important
king in French history; rise to power ended French Civil Wars and
provided gradual course to absolutism; converted to Catholicism to
gain loyalty of Paris but gave Calvinists protections
Edict of Nantes - Correct Answers ✅✅granted the Huguenots the
liberty to conscience and the liberty of worship; towns could be
fortified; helped France reach absolutism and restored internal peace in
France
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Bourbon Dynasty - Correct Answers ✅✅lasted until 1555 until the
overthrow of the French monarchy in 1792; included Louis XIV through
Louis XVI
Nobility of the Sword - Correct Answers ✅✅old, hereditary nobles
of France; positions gained militarily; must be weakened if Louis XIV is
to exercise real authority
Nobility of the Robe - Correct Answers ✅✅the group of the French
nobility that acquired their positions by service or purchase; the "new"
nobility of France; created by Louis XIV to help him run his government
Duke of Sully - Correct Answers ✅✅Finance minister under Henry
IV; used Mercantilism to increase power of monarchy, reformed the tax
system, improved transportation, and reduced the royal debt
Louis XII - Correct Answers ✅✅in youth, nobles and princes
increased power; later rule was dominated by Cardinal Richelieu; rule
became more centralized under him
Cardinal Richelieu - Correct Answers ✅✅strengthened the French
monarchy by taking away the political and military but not religious
rights of the Huguenots; uncovered noble conspiracies; expanded
military; instituted Intendant system; POLITIQUE
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Politique - Correct Answers ✅✅A ruler who suppresses his or her
religious designs for his or her kingdom in favor of political expediency.
Examples: Elizabeth I (England), Henry IV (France)
Intendant system - Correct Answers ✅✅System was introduced by
Cardinal Richelieu under Louis XIII; used to weaken the nobility of the
sword; replaced local officials with intendents who reported directly to
the king
Peace of Alais - Correct Answers ✅✅amendment to Edict of
Nantes by Cardinal R; took away Calvinist rights; Protestants kept their
religion but had no political/military power
Louis XIV - Correct Answers ✅✅"Sun King" and most famous
absolutist; regent=Cardinal Richelieu; Thirty Years' War=expansion of
French power; mercantilist economic policies; built Versailles to contain
nobles
Fronde - Correct Answers ✅✅Nobles that resented centralized
administrative power and Cardinal Mazarin revolted, resulted in civil
wars; Louis XIV grew up with distrust of nobles
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