1. Absolutism

2. Bell Work Who is in the painting? What is in the background?
What does this painting convey? What is its message?

3. Directions
Our goal is to create a definition of Absolutism by looking at several historical examples
Read through the examples of absolutism
Fill in the graphic organizer to help you keep track of ideas
If you finish early – move on to the second worksheet and find 4 similarities and 4 differences between your examples

4. Directions: with a partner…
Which 3 of these similarities do you think is most important?
Using these examples create a definition for the term Absolutism with your partner
Prepare to share

5. Assignment Read through the examples you have been given
Decide whether or not they are examples of Absolutism
If they are NOT examples of Absolutism, how would they need to change to fit the definition?
Hand in when finished

6. Online tour of Versailles
Louis XIV
Online tour of Versailles

7. Bell work
Have you finished listing the 3 critical attributes of Absolutism and created a definition for the label?
Prepare to share your attributes and definitions
Today’s Agenda
Finish Absolutism Packet
Online exploration of Versailles and Louis XIV
Assignment:
And
“The Age of Absolutism in France” Worksheet
Get it??
HAPPY FRIDAY!! 

8. Absolutism in France
“The Age of Absolutism in France” - Complete steps 1-4
You may use other websites for step 3 AND your textbook
Due by the end of the hour
Absolutism Packet
Due Tuesday**

9. 5 examples of absolutism

10. Bell Work
Have you finished your Absolutism Packet? Please grab a “Map of Europe” Sheet from the front of the room.
Sort of…

11. Where in the world are we?
We will fill out this new world map as we go
Spain
France
England
Austria and Prussia
Russia

12. Today’s focus
Spain and France
France
Spain

13. Absolutism in Spain Charles V Where have you heard this name before??
Two Crowns
Hapsburg Empire (including Holy Roman Empire) and Spain
Difficult for Charles to manage
Ottoman attacks
Reformation and German Princes
Resigns in 1556
Divides empire
Central Europe – Ferdinand (bro)
Spain (and overseas colonies), Netherlands, S. Italy – Philip II (son)

14. Philip II: 1556-1598 Goals Expand Spanish empire
Strengthen Catholic Church
Make his power ABSOLUTE
Resources
Silver from colonies in America
Personality – focused and serious
Somber isolated palace
Military power
Claim to power
Divine Right = His authority to rule came directly from God (Everyone MUST be Catholic)
Inquisition used against protestants

15. Philip II: 1556-1598 Spain’s Golden Age
Art, literature, science and math
El Greco
Cervantes and Don Quixote

16. Failures Religious War Netherland’s revolt 1560s-1580s England
Protestant rebels – faith, taxes, inquisition
1581 Dutch Netherlands
England
Elizabeth I is Protestant Enemy #1
Francis Drake and Sea Dogs
1588 Spanish Armada
Economic Decline
Weak heirs, high taxes, expulsion of Muslims and Jews, inflation

17. “A chicken in every pot”
France and Absolutism
Henry IV: Tries to rebuild France
Edict of Nantes: Catholic country with tolerance for Protestants
Reduced power of nobles
Expanded monarchy’s power into all areas of life
Roads, bridges, money to farmers for agriculture
Assassinated 1610
Son Lious XIII (9 yrs old!)
Cardinal Armand Richelieu
“A chicken in every pot”

18. Cardinal Armand Richelieu
Chief Minister to Louis XIII
Destroy the Huguenots and nobles – Why?
Defeated their militaries, tore down walled cities
Defeated the nobles’ military and fortified castles
Kept Protestants calm by still allowing them to practice their religion
Kept nobles tied to the king by giving them high posts at court or in the royal army

19. Louis XIV, The Sun King: 1643-1715
King at 4 - Chief Minister Jules Mazarin
Fronde
Nobles, merchants, peasants, urban poor
revolted
Driven out of his palace
Mazarin dies 1661
Louis shocks everyone by taking over
What does this quote tell you about Louis XIV?
“God’s power is felt in an instant from one end of the world to the other; royal power takes the same time to act throughout the kingdom. It preserves the order of the whole kingdom, as does God with the whole world.” Louis XIV
Divine Right
Sun Emblem
center of the solar system/center of the nation

20. Louis XIV, The Sun King: 1643-1715
Strengthening royal power
Attends to gov. affairs himself
Never convenes the Estates General
Appointed intendants (royal officials)
Taxes, recruited soldiers, carry out policies
Middle class wealthy men
Strengthens Army
State paid, fed, trained, supplied
300,000 soldiers
Colbert and the Economy
Bases economy on luxury items
Expands agriculture, mining
Taxes foreign goods
Expands colonies in Americas
What about the nobility?
Versailles and the Levee
“My dominant passion is certainly love of glory.”

21. Bell Work: can you solve the riddle?
The following sentences have two blanks that can be filled with two words that are anagrams of each other. Please find those words. 1. Mark's math __________ was a mild-mannered man. But one thing he would not tolerate was a __________. He would immediately fail anyone caught doing so. 2. The patient __________ his pain through physical therapy. He had seen enough __________ surgeries to know that too many people elected surgery when they shouldn't have. 3. After a long and successful career of serving his country, the nation was in shock as the highly regarded __________ was arrested and tried for __________.
1. teacher, cheater
2. lessened, needless
3. Senator, treason

22. failures Expensive wars with little gain
Louis XIV wants to expand but other nations band together to stop him from taking over
Balance of Power
War of Spanish Succession
Edict of Nantes
Revoked 1685
100,000+ Huguenots fled –economy
His heir (Great Grandson Louis XV)
France is weakened economically = wars and bad harvests
Louis XV focused on partying – country falls apart
“After us, the deluge”

23. Assignment
Please compare and contrast the reigns of Philip II of Spain and Louis XIV of France using the Venn Diagram

24. Parliament and England

25. Today’s focus
Britain

26. Directions
Complete the Venn Diagram Read p and complete the worksheet – Due tomorrow

27. Bell work:
Please take out your assignment from yesterday (p ) for a work check.
Riddle:
I can be straight or not
I can be flat or round
I have three layers
The rounder I am – the straighter I am
I can be a person’s trademark
I can be chemically challenged
What am I?
Today’s Agenda
Correct Worksheet
Video on England and Parliament

28. Austria, Prussia and the 30 years war

29. Bell Work Today’s Agenda Finish Cromwell/Parliament Video
Notes on the 30 years war Austria/Prussia
Compare nations graphic organizer

30. Today’s focus
Austria and Prussia? p. 428

31. Peace of Augsburg leads to….
The Holy Roman Emperor has no real control over German Princes
The Princes argue over which of them has control
North Protestant
South Catholic
= The Thirty Years War

32. Quick Facts: Thirty Years War
Political and religious causes
Begins in Bohemia: Ferdinand (Hapsburg King) tries to suppress Protestants and take control
Defenestration of Prague – Protestant Noblemen ‘open a window’
Revolt ends up Involving almost all of Europe
1 year later
Ferdinand is elected Holy Roman Emperor
Catholic nations fight with F against Protestant countries
Protestant nations (Netherlands, Sweden etc.) ban together to fight Ferdinand
As time drags on…
Religious based alliances are exchanged for political ones
Protestant and catholic leaders fight together to get the territories they want

33. What does this quote tell you about the fighting?
“for one of the peasants they had taken they thrust into the baking oven and there lit a fire under him,… as for another, they put a cord around his head and twisted it so tight with a piece of wood that the blood gushed from his mount and nose and ears. In a word each had his own device to torture the peasants.”
-Jacob von Grimmelshausen
An estimated 1/3 of Germans Die

34. Peace of Westphalia - 1648 Ends conflict Redraws map of Europe
France gains territory
Holy Roman Empire is greatly weakened
Hapsburgs are forced to accept independence of all princes in the Holy Roman Empire
Germany is divided into 360 separate states
Recognize HRE as leader but each has their own coin, government, church, military
Netherlands and Switzerland are now independent states

35. Assignment
Map on p. 428 – How can you tell from the map that the Holy Roman Empire was not a strong state after the Thirty Years War?
Read pages and fill in your “Absolutism Graphic Organizer” for Austria and Prussia
If you have time begin filling in information for the other nations that we have covered so far

36. Extra slides

37. Absolutism Timeline
Phillip II Spain
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1740 Frederick of Prussia challenges Austria
Louis XIV
France
Cromwell and Commonwealth
Maria Theresa in Austria
Peter the Great
And
Catherine the Great
Russia
1603 Stuart monarchy begins
1698 English Bill of Rights Limited Monarchy in England
1660
Stuart King returns to England

38. Absolutism Timeline
Phillip II Spain
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Louis XIV
France
Cromwell and Commonwealth
1603 Stuart monarchy begins
1698 English Bill of Rights Limited Monarchy in England
1660
Stuart King returns to England

39. Absolutism Timeline
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