AP Euro Ch.15 Essay SPRITE – Flashcards
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Social (family, gender relations, social classes, inequalities, life styles)
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- nobles were required to stay w/ Louis in Versailles, domestication of the nobles - upper bourgeoisie was enlisted as royal admin./intendents - peasants/lowest classes were left to pay all the taxes, joining the army = respectable occupant - Nobles of the Sword (old), Nobles of the Robe (new, served King in Council) didn't have to pay taxes
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Political (leaders/elite, state structure, war, diplomacy treaties, courts/law)
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- king in both court and council, nobility gave up power -centralized gov't - natural borders -intendents - 1679 Peace of Rynswick - standing army (reforms/professional) - foreign policy - natural borders - wars - Treaty of Utrecht
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Religious ( holy books, beliefs/teachings, conversations, sin/salvations, deities )
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- wanted religious uniformity - one king, one law, one faith (censorship) -no toleration of any other religion other than his (Louis') or version of Catholicism that opposed his - Rescinded the Edict of Nantes, goes after Huguenots, Quietists, Jansenists, Gallicans, Jesuits bc they believed the Pope was more powerful than monarchy
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Intellectual Arts (art/music, writing/literature, philosophy, math and science, education)
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- censorship - mesmerized nobles at Versailles w/ theater (gardens) - court life = male society, bound by rules (Lully) - Paris City life = salons, mix of ppl/different backgrounds, dominated by women - at Versailles: domestication of nobles through use of art, music, dance (ballet) |--> impressed foreigners, French men -- Molien, Racine
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Technological (new inventions, new tools/weapons, ways to improve life, technical solutions, infrastructure {water, roads, etc. }
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- improved roads, waterways, and bridges to help with development of manufacturing - industry to equip army - wonders of Versailles
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Economic (types of system, technology/industry, trade/commerce, capital/money, types of businesses)
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- state doesn't get the full wealth of the nation because the nobles don't pay taxes - Tariff union Colbert established in 1/2 the country = mercantilism, west indies profitable colony made sugar, sold public office/noble titles = gov't expense later, war and famine shattered France's finances and improvements - Industry, trade and manufacture slowed due controlled by gov't unlike in GBritian - export of food prohibited to save money - 25% taxes reached treasury in 1666, 80% taxes reached treasury in 1683
