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Absolutism and the Age of Exploration

Explore the rise of absolutism and its impact on Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Learn about the major powers that emerged during this period and their quest for centralized control.

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Absolutism and the Age of Exploration

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  1. Do Now • Pages 76-77 • Learning Target: : I can Identify the major powers that emerged from the Age of Discovery to the Age of Absolutism. • Essential Question: What is absolutism? • Success Criteria: I can explain the changing role of monarchs • Why is it important: Sets a foundation for the Age of Exploration

  2. 10 minutes • Fill in your timeline for Renaissance and Reformation • At least 5 significant dates/events • Write Absolutism and Explorations Unit Across whole Page 72 • Staple in Absolutism and Explorations Deadlines to page 73 • Change: ID Terms Due January 12/13 • ID Terms (you will get these later) Page 74 • Chapt 15 & 16 Reading Page 75

  3. The Age of Absolute Monarchs

  4. The Age of Absolutism 16th & 17th Centuries • System of government • King or Queenhas complete control over government & its people • Autocracy • Centralized Government • Nation states

  5. Overview In the 1500s and 1600s, several rulers in Asia and Europe sought to centralize their political power. Claiming divine right, or authority from God, leaders such as Philip II in Spain and Louis XIV in France gained complete authority over their governments and their subjects. England resisted the establishment of absolutism. After a civil war, England’s Parliament enacted a Bill of Rights that limited the English monarch’s powers.

  6. Overview Main Ideas: • Monarchs acted to establish absolute power • Monarchs used the divine right theory and similar ideas to justify their power • Parliament and the Puritans in England resisted absolutism • A limited monarchy was established in England

  7. Absolutism Absolutism: Belief that monarchs hold supreme power, and are responsible only to God. • King has all power • People have no power • Common features- Strong armies, limited representative bodies, high taxes • Kings gain power & centralized governments lose power

  8. Absolutism • Absolute Monarch • Monarch (king/queen) has ALL power among their people • Hold unrestricted political power over the sovereign state and its people • Actions not restricted by laws • Kings gain power & centralized governments lose power

  9. Absolutism • Monarchs based their claim on Divine Right • Authority comes from God • Similar to “Mandate of Heaven” • Subject to no earthly authority • Don’t forget about primogeniture! • Church and state combined

  10. Absolutism • Balance of Power • Nations sought to maintain national sovereignty of all states • Seek to prevent one nation from becoming too powerful • Changed alliances a lot • End of religious wars • Expansion!

  11. Absolutism • Dynasty • a line of hereditary rulers of a country • Period of time where a country is ruled by one family, one purpose, one idea

  12. Causes of Absolutism • Breakdown of Feudalism/ Rise of Nation states • Continuous Warfare • Need for money • Exploration • Declining influence of the church

  13. Effects of Absolutism • Regulation of Religion & society • Loss of power by nobility & legislatures • New government Bureaucracies • Huge building projects

  14. Word Scrabble • 5 minutes: complete and put in notes

  15. Map Activity & Divine Right Primary Source • MAP DUE AT 12:34 • Primary source due at 12:20

  16. Exit Ticket: Reflective Writing • In your ET section • Make a prediction • Which country of the 5 emerging Powers will have the strongest ruler and why? • 5 minutes

  17. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…. • Who’s the absolutist of them all….. • Project. • To be completed on your own time. • Due January 27,28 • Before you leave today, I want to know who your partner is and who you are choosing.

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