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9H Absolutism in France
Respond to the following questions thorouhgly using specific details.
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- Define the term absolutism. What is your prediction of its impact on European history?
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- Who was King Henry IV (France) and how were his policies geared more towards the mass populous as opposed to the elite members of society?
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- Who was King Louis XIII and why was his rule more known for the power wielded by Cardinal Richelieu?
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- What policies and actions did Cardinal Richelieu carry out to help consolidate power under the French Crown?
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- As King Louis XIV took the throne at the age of five, how did his mother and Cardinal Jules Mazarin use his royal power for him? How did it influence the rise of the Fronde and the future placement of Louis’s palace Versailles?
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- How did the policies of Finance Minister Jean Baptiste Colbert propel France economically? How did conflict with the Dutch in the 1670s undo much of his work? How did Louis’s ending of the Edict of Nantes impact France economically?
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- Describe the Palace of Versailles. How was it both the representation of the French Crown and the socioeconomic divide that existed in the kingdom?
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- What was the War of Spanish Succession? What were the stakes for France? What were the stakes for the rest of Europe? What was the outcome?
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