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EHAP CH18 Terms
The 18th Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change
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History
12th Grade
11/20/2009
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Louis XV of France (1715-1774)
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-Grandson of Louis XIV.

-Took the French throne at age 5.

-Chose to rule alone in 1743 when advisor Cardinal Fleury died

-lazy and weak; easily influenced..

-mistress Madame de Pompadour
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Louis XVI of France(1774-1792)
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-grandson to Louis XV

-took the French throne at age 20

-incompetent leader

-wife = Marie Antoinette
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Robert Walpole of Britain
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-British Prime Minister (1721-1742)
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Catherine II the Great of Russia(1762-1796)
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-wife of Peter III

-emerged as autocrat of all Russias after Peter's murder

 -intellectual; corresponed with philosophes (Voltaire & Diderot)

-wished to reform Russia along the Enlightenment

-wrote Instruction as guide to deliberations

-divided Russia into 50 provinces that were further divided...

-Charter of the Nobility(1785)

-policies favored nobles w/ land => worse conditions for peasants

 
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Junkers
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