Absolutism

Absolutism

1. SP

2. Comes from

   • Feudalism
     • nobles v king
       • lack of cent. auth.
     • King
       • nobles
         • peasants
           • serfes

3. Louis XIV

   • continuing the gradual process of consolidating royal power (centralized authority)
     • at the expense of nobles
       • tax authority
         • prov and local authorities
   • Philip the Fair
     • Philip Augustus
       • Hugh Capet
   • mercantilism
     • FR take raw materials from colonies
       • create finished goods
         • send back
   • Revenue
     • Delhi Sultanate
     • Tokugawa
       • resources went down and devalued then couldnt fix because were isolated...
     • Ottoman Empire
       • tax farming

4. Russia

   • Tsar
     • legitimized by orthodox church
     • owns everrything
       • has a monopoly over the economy

5. Prussia

6. Eng*

7. AUS

8. Divine rule

   • legitimize right
     • Japanese emperors
     • Aztecs
     • China - Mandate of Heaven
     • Incas

9. all need $$

   • how?
     • taxes
       • how?
         • Russia, Prussia, Austria
           • deal
             • through nobles
           • Russia
             • control over serfs
               • Feudal structure, but more Cent. auth
           • Prussia
             • becomes germany
             • you get *Peasant and you go into army controlling peasants, or you go into c.b.
               • relies on nobles
                 • separated, small,
                   • wants more peoples
                     • offers religious tolerance
                       • more people
                         • more people in army
                           • very militaristic society
                             • best army
                           • more land
           • Aus
             • Peasants
         • Eng
           • without consent
             • Taxation w/o representation
             • need parliment
             • Fr
               • Estates General
                 • needs clergy and nobles to agree to be taxed peasants most heavily taxed nobles get a vote clergy gets a vote and peasants as whole get a vote 3/3 to get anything passed