HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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They financed expeditions to the Americas.
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They encouraged the growth of democracy
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They increased the power of their central governments.
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They eliminated all bureaucratic positions in the government.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What were two major similarities between Louis XIV and Peter the Great during their reigns? Both achieved self-sufficiency for their state as an absolute monarch by attaining economic and cultural success. What did both rulers do to the power of the nobility? Both constrained the power of the nobility.
Detailed explanation-2: -Absolute monarchy is also called absolutism. A prime example of an absolute monarchy in French history includes King Louis XIV; he referred to himself as the title of Sun King. Peter the Great is an example of an absolute monarch in Russian history.
Detailed explanation-3: -By the 16th century monarchical absolutism prevailed in much of western Europe, and it was widespread in the 17th and 18th centuries. Besides France, whose absolutism was epitomized by Louis XIV, absolutism existed in a variety of other European countries, including Spain, Prussia, and Austria.
Detailed explanation-4: -Louis XIV’s centralisation of power saw the creation of a new category of royal officer, the intendants, who were dispatched to the provinces with the task of steering the kingdom’s economic development. From the Palace of Versailles, Louis XIV ruled over a centralised state centred upon his own royal person.