Section 3 Response to Crisis: Absolutism.

Big Idea: The emergence of Absolute power.

Response to Crisis in EuropeIncreasing

monarchies power=stability–Absolutism: ruler

holds total power–Divine Right

•power from God & answer only to God

(Absolutism of France) Louis XIII

• Chief minister: Cardinal Richelieu–Goal: strong monarchy

• Took political & military rights of Huguenots

• Executed threats Louis XIV

– Chief minister: Cardinal Mazarin • Took power from nobles

Louis XIV (14th) “Sun King” Lived at Versailles

1.House of Louis XIV2.state offices & officials home

(nobles)-didn’t trust.– busy court life- kept out of

politics Louis XIV’s absolute power over

• policy• Church

– Huguenots to Catholicism• Taxes

Louis XIV Economy & War Economy

– Jean-Baptiste Colbert -finances• mercantilism

– decreased imports– increased exports– subsidies ($) to new industries

Military– Large army =power/ competitor– 4wars –goal-territory=power

• Coalitions form against France Died 1715

– debt & enemies

Other’s who follow Absolutism– Prussia

• Frederick William the Great Elector–General War Commissariat:

taxes for large army & civil gov. agency

– Russian Czars (monarch)• Ivan the Terrible

–Crushed Boyars (nobilities) power

– Peter the Great• “Europeanize” Russia• Enlarged army-draft peasants