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English Civil War

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parliaments response to Charles asking for more money in making it contingent to the curbing of monarchical power

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Charles I

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(1625-1649)

  • James son
  • married sister of french catholic King and always was fighting with France and Spain
  • problems with parliament and had to ask for more funds for war
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Commonwealth

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  • victory of parliament led to execution of Charles and establishment of commonwealth
  • deteriorated into a fundamentalist Protestant dictatorship under the rule of Oliver Cromwell
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Restoration

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(1660-1688)

  • parliamentarians worked to establish a restoration of English monarchy
  • invited son of Charles I to take throne as Charles II
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James II

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  • Charles brother ascended to throne
  • catholic
  • determined to establish religIous freedom for Catholics, to avenge his father and restore absolute monarchy
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Mary (wife of William of Orange of the Netherlands)

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-was called to thwart James II plan

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Glorious revolution

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  • Mary of Orange
  • bloodless uprising that coordinated parliament led uprisings with the invasion of a Protestant fleet and army from the Netherlands
  • led to expulsion of James II in 1688
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Constitutional monarchy

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A system by which the monarch in Britain rules within the

Limits of the laws passed by a legislative body

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French absolutism

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The lack of religious turmoil allowed french monarchy to have an alliance with clergy and middle class and to use both administrations for a centralized government

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Louis XIII

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(1610-1643)

- chief minister: Cardinal Richelieu

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Cardinal Richelieu

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  • used royal army to strip autonomy granted to few Protestant (Huguenot) towns left
  • Divided franc into 30 administrative districts and out each under control of an INTENDENT
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Intendent

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An administrative bureaucrat usually chosen from middle class who owned his position and loyalty was directly to Richelieu

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Cardinal Jules Mazarin

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Continued Richelieus policies

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Louis XIV

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  • perfected Richelieus policies and added bribery
  • built Versailles and gave nobles a choice: oppose him and be destroyed or join him and have all the perks
  • nobles gave up any control and lived luxuriously
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Peter the great

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(1689-1725)

  • the Romanov tsars consolidated power by buying the loyalty of the nobles
  • in return for loyalty, tsars gave nobility control over classes of people below them
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Law code of 1649

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Converted the legal status of groups as varied as peasants and slaves into that of a single class of serfs

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Baroque Style

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  • art of the 17th century
  • emphasis on grandeur and drama
  • Versailles is baroque
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Sides to English Civil War

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  • forces LOYAL TO KING fought to defend monarchy, Church of England, noble privileges
  • forces SUPPORTING PARLIAMENT fought to end official state church and notions of individual liberty