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Absolute Monarchy

Absolute Monarchy. In this unit you will: Understand the Definitions of Political, Social, and Economic. Analyze the characteristics of an Absolute Monarch and analyze their impact the political, social, and economic lives of the people. Political.

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Absolute Monarchy

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  1. Absolute Monarchy • In this unit you will: • Understand the Definitions of Political, Social, and Economic. • Analyze the characteristics of an Absolute Monarch and analyze their impact the political, social, and economic lives of the people.

  2. Political Practice and theory of influencing other people. Distribution of power and resources within a given community. Exercising or seeking power in government, involving state or local government. Practice or profession of conducting governmental affairs.

  3. Economic Describes the factors which determine the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Explanation of why individuals buy certain products and how products are made.

  4. Social Having to do with society, culture, and attitudes. The everyday lives of people.

  5. What is an absolute monarch? • Rule by ONE PERSON—a monarch, usually a king or a queen—whose actions are restricted neither by written law nor by custom. • Absolute monarchy persisted in France until 1789 and in Russia until 1917. • Today only Swaziland and the Vatican are absolute monarchies

  6. Monarchy • A monarchy, (from the Greek "monos arkhein" -- "one ruler") is a form of government that has a monarch as Head of State. • The position of monarch often involves inheritance in some form. Henry VIII of England

  7. Characteristics of an Absolute Monarch • Ruled by one person • Rule is Hereditary or passed down through the family • Actions are not restricted by written law or custom • They believe their authority to rule comes from god

  8. One theme = CONTROL!!! • Control the government -Centralize & create bureaucracies -Reduce power of representative bodies • Control the nobility -Increase size of court; regulate social gatherings -Reduce nobles’ power in the government • Control economics -Great works -Economic policies centralized • Control power -Divine right & regulate religion

  9. Rights and Responsibilities • Absolutism is the form of government that existed in the feudal age. • Under feudalism the Monarch and their subjects had specific rights and responsibilities based on their social class

  10. Lord Vassal Social Contract

  11. Rights and Responsibilities cont

  12. The Peasantry • Most Rights and Responsibilities only applied to the upper class(Nobility) • Peasants were required to pay taxes, provide labor, resources, and military services all without political or economic say. • In exchange the peasants gained the protection of their King or Lord

  13. Example: Louis the XIV 1638-1715 • Intendants: Poltical • Government agents who collected taxes and administered justice (like FBI). They were under Louis’ control only and kept the gov’t centrally controlled. • Sun King Court: Social • Louis required all nobles to stay at Versailles with him and attend his daily routine. That meant being in his chambers when he rose and went to bed as well as attending meals. Louis was the sun king because everything revolved around him. • Divine Right: Social and Political • “The sovereign power of government should be proportionate to its mandate, and in the station he occupies in the body of human society that makes up the state, he who is the head should hold the place of God. For since God is the only natural sovereign of men, their judge, their lawgiver, their king, no man can have lawful authority over others unless he holds it from the hand of God .... The power of sovereigns being thus derived from the authority of God, it acts as the arm and force of the justice that should be the soul of government; and that justice alone has the natural claim to rule the minds and hearts of men, for it is over these two faculties of men that justice should reign.” –Jean Domat, Jurist • Economics & Jean Baptiste Colbert • Tariffs, expand manufacturing, fur trade

  14. Royal Gardens

  15. Hall of Mirrors

  16. Hall of Battles

  17. Royal Bedroom (King’s Chambers) One of several

  18. Furniture

  19. Louis as Apollo

  20. Louis as Cavalier

  21. Louis as Sun King

  22. Other Absolute Monarchs in Europe 1500-1800Chapter 17: 410-439 • Phillip II of Spain: Section 1 • Charles I of England: Section 3 • James I of England: Section 3 • Maria Theresa of Austria: Section 4 • Frederick the Great of Prussia: Section 4 • Peter the Great of Russia: Section 5 • Catherine the Great of Russia: Section 5

  23. Formative Assessment Find the Political, Social, and Economic policies of your Absolute Monarch.

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