Flashcards
Enlightened Despotism
Cards in this deck (5)
- 1frederick the greatethe king of prusia, invited Voltaire to his court and sought his advice and how to be an Enlightened ruler. he was an efficient statesman and made Prussia into the best-ruled nation in europe
- 2peter the greatehe was the one that try to make that Russia were part of Europe after centuries
- 3catharine the greateshe revised an codified the russian law, create hospitals, etc.
- 4maria theresashe established a national army, limited the power of catholic Church.
- 5Joseph IIhe granted religious tolerance to Calvinists and Lutherans, and eliminated many of the restrictions to Jews
