Western Civilization I / Unit 14 WC1 1305 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Financial Revolution: New Men and New Taxes
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The idea
Guns, mercenaries and fortresses demanded revenue, so kings levied territory-wide taxes on salt, heads and hearths. Humanist-trained townsmen staffed the offices, the new men, dismissable unlike nobles, and their targets were nobles and the Church.
In practice
The French crown appointing French bishops.
Where people slip
Consent came from Parliament and the Estates General; the anchor's parlements were courts.
Your place on the trail
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- 1306Spain United: Isabella, Ferdinand, Granada, 1492
- 1308England: The War of the Roses and Henry VII's Council Courts
- 1310France: Charles VII's Army, the Taille, and Louis XI the Spider
- 1319Classifying a New Monarchy's Tool: Army, Tax, Official, Court, Church
- 1322Why States Got Stronger: Guns, Money, Officials, and the Church's Wealth
- 1412Henry VIII's Reformation: Catherine, Anne, and the Act of Supremacy
- 1519Nobles of the Sword, Nobles of the Robe, and Despised Merchants
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