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| a ruler that has complete control over the government and lives of the people |
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| Difficulty of Charles V wearing two crowns |
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- in a constant state of religious warfare
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| What Charles V did with those two crowns |
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- gave Hapsburg lands in central Europe to brother Ferdinand
- Gave Spain, Netherlands, and Southern Italy to his son Philip
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- authority came directly from God
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| Reasons for revolt against Philip in the Netherlands |
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- crushing Protestant faith
- high taxes
- threatened local traditions and self-government
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| Reasons why Philip attacked Queen Elizabeth I |
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- she supported the Dutch against Spain
- Sea Dogs attacked Spanish ships
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| Effects of armada upon Spanish power |
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- decreased naval superiority
- Spanish power defeated around the world
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| Why El Greco was significant to Spain's Golden Century |
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- Famous painter
- haunting religious pictures
- portraits of nobles
- landscapes of Toledo
- Brings cultural diffusion from Renaissance Italy
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| Why was 1550-1650 a "Golden Century" for Spain? |
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- great art and literature
- founded academies of math and science
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| What caused economic decline for Spain after 1650? |
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- overseas wars
- expulsion of Muslims and Jews (skilled artisans and merchants)
- Spain had inflation
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| St Bartholomew's Day Massacre |
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- Huguenots (French Protestants) and Catholics went to a royal wedding, fighting broke out
- resulted in 3,000 Huguentos dead
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| "Paris is well worth a Mass" |
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- Was Protestant, but coverted to Catholicism because France was mostly Catholic
- He did issue the Edict of Nantes to protect his former religion's followers, which granted Huguenots religious toleration and let them fortify their own towns and cities
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| Cardinal Armand Richelieu takes some power away from French nobles |
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- smashed walled cities of Huguenots and outlawed their armies
- defeated private armies of nobles and destroyed their castles
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- Uprising of nobles, merchants, peasants, and urban poor against 5 year old Louis XIV, drove him from his palace on one occasion
- Louis XIV would never trust his nobles again for the next 67 years of his reign
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- royal officials who collected taxes, recruited soldiers, and carried out Louis XIV's policies in provinces
- similar to missi dominici
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| Jean Baptiste Colbert's effect on the French economy |
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- had new lands cleared for farming, encouraged mining and other basic industries, and built up luxury trades such as lace making
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- symbol of Louis XIV's wealth and power
- was the king's home and seat of government
- housed at least 10,000 people, from nobles and officials to servants
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- a distribution of military and economic power that would prevent any one nation from dominating Europe
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| Effects of revocation of the Edict of Nantes |
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- Huguenots were persecuted
- more than 100,000 left the country
- Huguenots had been among the most hard-working and prosperous French subject so loss of them affected France's eonomy just as expelling Muslims and Jews affected Spain's economy
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- Warfare drained treasury and prosperity evaporated because of bad harvests, heavy taxes, and other problems
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