(Compare and Contrast how Louis XIV‚ Peter the Great and the Hohenzollern family (btw. 1640-1740) created successful absolute monarchies through their use/manipulation of nobility‚ religion‚ bureaucracy‚ and economics.) The absolute age of Europe (roughly 1600’s-1750) was a time when absolute monarchy had begun becoming more popular by countries such as Habsburg’s lands‚ France‚ and Russia. There Is no one specific formula for an absolute monarchy however‚ in studying several such monarchies of
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permitted people to transplant to a religion whose faith was more congenial. Augsburg Augsburg‚ Germany DATE: August 24‚ 1572 DESCRIPTION: King Charles IX of France order the assassination of the leaders of Huguenot Protestant. The result was the massacre of tens of thousands of Huguenots across France. Paris DATE: 1618–1648 DESCRIPTION: The Thirty Years War. European war of religion and struggle for power to alter the European balance of power. Germany and the Holy Roman Empire were convinced
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Shianne Schimmel Period 2 Chapter 14 Review Discovery and Crisis in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Age of Discovery and Expansion By the sixteenth century the Atlantic coast was the center of commercial activity. This age of expansion was a factor in European transition from the farming economy to a commercial and industrial capitalistic system. Expansion led to Europeans meeting non-European people that started a new age of world history. Motives of Expansion • • • • • • • •
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Ashtyn Crowder AMH2070 – September 30‚ 2014 Women in Florida Originally extending over what is now the southeastern United States‚ but with no defined boundaries‚ Florida was a component of the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the expansion of the Spanish Empire. Wide-ranging expeditions were mounted into the surrounding area during the 16th century‚ but Spain never exercised complete control over Florida outside an area of what is now the State of Florida‚ southern Georgia‚ southern Alabama
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astronomy. For his first published mathematical work appeared in Paris in 1571. While in Paris‚ Charles IX was authorized to the massacre of the Huguenots. Both who were an increasingly powerful group of French Protestants on August 23‚ 1572. It must have been a difficult time for Viete. He‚ though‚ was not active in the Protestant cause‚ because he was a Huguenot himself. Charles did not live long after this event. The massacre was apparently haunting him for rest of his life. On October 24‚ 1573 he appointed
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King Louis XIV’s ideology for French power and centralization‚ “one king‚ one law‚ one faith‚” was his main focus during his reign as France’s ruler. He achieved “one king” by declaring himself as the absolute ruler of France‚ “one law” by limiting the power of other governmental figures and “one faith” by uniting the French religion. As an absolutist leader‚ with a centralized government‚ his many actions (including the removal of the Edict of Nantes) made France the supreme European power‚ but
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like France‚ Italy‚ Germany‚ Scandinavia‚ and Spain also creating many inventions. One of the countries that impacted Europe was France because it was racked by turmoil from the religious conflicts of the reformation also the kingdom was divided by Huguenot protestant forces and Catholic loyalist. In the ruling of the house of Valois became extinct when Queen Margaret died in 1615. Another country was Italy this country had dominated by the Spanish Hapsburg royal family and came to a position of Duchy
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John Calvin John Calvin was a theologian/ecclesiastical statesman. He also fought as a protestant for the reformation he was mostly known for being one of the most important people in the reformation. John Calvin was born in France in July 10‚ 1509. In 1523 he went to the University in Paris where he studied theology then‚ in 1528 John Calvin went to law school at University of Orleans. The only reason he studied law was because his father wanted him to but in 1531 when his father died John Calvin
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Religious Wars Catholicism had been the dominant religious power in Europe for centuries. However‚ after the Protestant Reformation‚ Protestantism spread to many countries in Europe. Attitudes towards these two religions have generally remained the same‚ with Catholicism remaining consistently more popular and Protestantism the minority. Nevertheless‚ there have been significant changes in attitudes towards Catholicism and Protestantism‚ including increased toleration between the two groups. Clearly
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Colton Blanchard 2/26/14 Kings and Queens Paper Henry IV Henry IV a Huguenot prince inherited the French throne in 1589. For four years‚ right after he took up the throne he fiercely fought for control of France against catholic oppression‚ and to end the fighting finally he changed to Catholicism. Even though he was now officially a catholic‚ he issued the Edict of Nantes in 1598 that provided Huguenots religious freedom. After all‚ of that Henry IV set out to fix all the damage he had done
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