HY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nicolas Fouquet, W. M. Keck Observatory, Nepotism
19 Jan 2016
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Germany (or german states) losing upwards of 40% of population. Feudal era officially ending: aristocrats losing a lot of power, merchants pissed at loss of trade routes and war discouraging trade, peasants pissed about taxation and dying in wars. Outcome: in order to survive as a country, there needs to be a country, meaning that it needs an army. How to consolidate power and to have all of those things: france and. To have an army it must have: a leader, money, a government, modern taxation, etc. Louis xiv (quatorze) pursued absolutism: absolutism population owing its allegiances to one man, the king, used as a way to restore system to modern state. Young louis and the fronde (french for slingshot : louis ascends to the throne in 1648 at age of 4, nobles seize opportunity and start a revolution (fronde). Begins at the noble"s court, then spreads to paris parliament, then to the people of.
