Post by Imorta Thaw on Jan 20, 2009 20:34:32 GMT -8
1. Political authorities such as Frederick of Saxony, Henry VIII of England, and Henry IV of France greatly influenced the Protestant revolution for their own political ends.
a. Frederick of Saxony
i. HRE
ii. Protected Luther
1. heretic
2. would have been burned
3. Preached state above church. Thus, got support
b. Henry VIII
i. England
ii. Wanted divorce
1. Pope was related to wife, so wouldn’t give it
2. Henry separated
3. remained Catholic, simply not with pope
iii. It was his son that really severed the ties.
1. Mary went back to Catholicism
2. Elizabeth was moderate/ protestant
c. Henry IV
i. France
ii. Won the war of three Henrys
1. Was between Huguenots and Catholics
iii. Huguenot
1. Became Catholic for Crown.
2. Said “Paris is worth a mass”
iv. Installed the Edict of Nantes
1. 150 cities practiced Protestantism in peace
2. …
3. Louis XIV used many methods of absolutism to obtain his goal of “one king, one law, one faith”, including Mercantilism, renovations in the army, and religious reconstruction, but was only partially successful, as at the end of his rule France was left bankrupt and ruined.
a. Mercantilism
i. To get one king (Mercantilism)
ii. Suffered through the Fronde and distrusted nobles
1. gave economic power to merchants
2. reinvented the French bureaucratic system
b. Army
i. For absolutism you need strong standing army (one law)
1. no longer dependent of army of nobles
ii. Reforms
1. new ways to recruit
2. new ways to feed
3. created medical squads to care for wounded
c. Religion
i. Revoked the Edict of Nantes
ii. Persecuted Huguenots
1. forced them to convert or flee
iii. Persecuted Jews
iv. Was not successful
1. too many wars
2. lost workers
4. …
5. The Netherlands rose as a leading commercial power in the period 1550-1650 due to intellectual advances, new stock companies, and religious toleration.
a. Intellectual
b. Stock companies
i. East India Trading
1. had control of India
c. Religious toleration
i. Protestants
1. Peace of Augsburg and treaty of Westphalia granted them rights
2. more people
3. more skills
6. The Third Estate in France was oppressed and often ignored by the first and second estate, even though the third estate contained 97% of France’s population. They faced heavy taxes, unequal representation, and high price of food. One of subgroups of the Third Estate was the Sans-culottes, who address their grievances by the march to Versailles, the Great Fear, and the Storming of the Bastille.
a. Third estate
i. Sans-Culottes
ii. heavy taxes, sometimes triple taxes (lord, monarch, church)
iii. unequal representation in the estates general
1. 1 vote for everyone
iv. high food prices
1. some merchants held food back to raise prices
b. Address of problems
i. march on Versailles
1. woman wanted bread
2. stormed palace and tried to kill Marie Antoinette
3. marched monarchs to Paris
ii. Storming of Bastille
1. Heard about invaders
2. Wanted weapons to defend themselves with
3. Stormed Bastille and killed all guards.
4. Took it apart stone by stone.
c. Great Fear
i. after king was executed
ii. took charge of government
iii. wanted stability
iv. drove out nobility
v. no more second or first estate
7. During the period 1789 to 1799 Enlightenment thinkers, libertarians, and Protestants all influenced the French revolution.
a. Enlightenment thinkers
b. Libertarian thought
c. Protestant thought
8. …
a. Frederick of Saxony
i. HRE
ii. Protected Luther
1. heretic
2. would have been burned
3. Preached state above church. Thus, got support
b. Henry VIII
i. England
ii. Wanted divorce
1. Pope was related to wife, so wouldn’t give it
2. Henry separated
3. remained Catholic, simply not with pope
iii. It was his son that really severed the ties.
1. Mary went back to Catholicism
2. Elizabeth was moderate/ protestant
c. Henry IV
i. France
ii. Won the war of three Henrys
1. Was between Huguenots and Catholics
iii. Huguenot
1. Became Catholic for Crown.
2. Said “Paris is worth a mass”
iv. Installed the Edict of Nantes
1. 150 cities practiced Protestantism in peace
2. …
3. Louis XIV used many methods of absolutism to obtain his goal of “one king, one law, one faith”, including Mercantilism, renovations in the army, and religious reconstruction, but was only partially successful, as at the end of his rule France was left bankrupt and ruined.
a. Mercantilism
i. To get one king (Mercantilism)
ii. Suffered through the Fronde and distrusted nobles
1. gave economic power to merchants
2. reinvented the French bureaucratic system
b. Army
i. For absolutism you need strong standing army (one law)
1. no longer dependent of army of nobles
ii. Reforms
1. new ways to recruit
2. new ways to feed
3. created medical squads to care for wounded
c. Religion
i. Revoked the Edict of Nantes
ii. Persecuted Huguenots
1. forced them to convert or flee
iii. Persecuted Jews
iv. Was not successful
1. too many wars
2. lost workers
4. …
5. The Netherlands rose as a leading commercial power in the period 1550-1650 due to intellectual advances, new stock companies, and religious toleration.
a. Intellectual
b. Stock companies
i. East India Trading
1. had control of India
c. Religious toleration
i. Protestants
1. Peace of Augsburg and treaty of Westphalia granted them rights
2. more people
3. more skills
6. The Third Estate in France was oppressed and often ignored by the first and second estate, even though the third estate contained 97% of France’s population. They faced heavy taxes, unequal representation, and high price of food. One of subgroups of the Third Estate was the Sans-culottes, who address their grievances by the march to Versailles, the Great Fear, and the Storming of the Bastille.
a. Third estate
i. Sans-Culottes
ii. heavy taxes, sometimes triple taxes (lord, monarch, church)
iii. unequal representation in the estates general
1. 1 vote for everyone
iv. high food prices
1. some merchants held food back to raise prices
b. Address of problems
i. march on Versailles
1. woman wanted bread
2. stormed palace and tried to kill Marie Antoinette
3. marched monarchs to Paris
ii. Storming of Bastille
1. Heard about invaders
2. Wanted weapons to defend themselves with
3. Stormed Bastille and killed all guards.
4. Took it apart stone by stone.
c. Great Fear
i. after king was executed
ii. took charge of government
iii. wanted stability
iv. drove out nobility
v. no more second or first estate
7. During the period 1789 to 1799 Enlightenment thinkers, libertarians, and Protestants all influenced the French revolution.
a. Enlightenment thinkers
b. Libertarian thought
c. Protestant thought
8. …
i like the ones about protestants, and about the third estate. Good luck tati!