HY 102- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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HY 102
Final EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
HY 1/17/18
Power Struggles 1648-1690: The Age of Absolutism in Europe
Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Ended the Thirty-Years’ War
Uderstadig the oder
- Why do Western Civ classes begin in 1648?
- What akes this period oder
- Changing role of religion
• Secularization thesis
- The nature of statehood
- New economic models
Key ideas:
- Absolutism and Constitutionalism developed in response to the crises of the mid-17th
century
- The importance of the question of legitimacy
• Devine right, natural law, social contracts
Post-1648 Landscape
- Economic stagnation
• Famine, fewer goods and less specie
- Demographic downturn
• 25-40% of all inhabitants of the Holy Roman Empire died during the Thirty-Years’
War
- National security privileged above religion
- Growth of state power (raiso d’état = reason/rational of the state)
- Versailles
Louis XIV: L’état, ’est oi = the state is e
- France as the model absolutism state
• How asolute was Louis’ asolutis?
• Fronde rebellions
- The King and the Court
• Cooptation of nobles through offices and honors
- Women as advisors
Exercise of absolute power
- Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685)
- Employment of intendants
- Suppression of the parlements (gatherings of elites)
- Constant warfare: War of Devolution, Dutch War and the War of the League of
Augsburg
Mercantilism
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert and the new economics
• Government intervention to increase national wealth
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• Protectionist tariffs
• North American expansion
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Document Summary
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