Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0311 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Absolutism: Louis XIV and Prussia
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The idea
Richelieu's intendants laid France's foundation. Louis the Fourteenth, king from sixteen forty-three to seventeen fifteen, outlasted the Fronde and ruled from Versailles. Prussia's Great Compromise traded nobles' control of serfs for the king's taxes and army.
In practice
Governments about four times larger; armies from twenty thousand past one hundred fifty thousand.
Where people slip
Spain, bankrupt by the sixteen twenties, shows absolutism failing.
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