Kirby Landon, Carolina Ribeiro, Cristi Schlesinger
How were the political, social, and economic
changes in Europe and Russia all related?
Commercial
integration,
religious conflict,
consolidation of
power
Changes in
Russia
Vast
domain
Internal
diversity
Changes
in Europe
Absolutist
government
Rise of
northern
powers
Successful
monarchies
Mercantilist
wars
Expansion of Russia (Muscovy)
 Not affected by Thirty Years’ War
 Security and religion inspired expansion
 Eliminated the steppe nomads
 Internally diverse
 Europe or Asia?
Map of Russian Expansion
Russia’s Budding Economy
 Extended commercial networks
 Trading posts
 Taxation of aboriginals
 Privateers
 Romanovs
Absolutist Government
Tsar
Nobles
Local aristocrats
Peasants
Siberia
 People migrated eastward
 Escaped serfdom
 Settled their own land
 Great Siberian Post Road
 Land of prisoners
The Thirty Years’ War





Originally German Catholics vs. German Protestants
Became a conflict throughout Europe
Depopulation
Ended with Treaty of Westphalia (1648)
Changed European warfare
Social Consequences
Large armies
Expensive war
Heavy taxes
Peasant revolts
European Economies
 Rise of northern cities
 Dutch pioneered economic practices
 England and France protected their economies
 Agricultural developments in northwestern Europe
 England changed the organization of property
French Monarchy
 Absolute monarchy
 Divine right of kings
 Versailles was center of
court life
 Not everyone was
pleased
 Protestants, peasants,
criticism, nobles
English Monarchy
 Beginning with Queen Elizabeth




in 1555
Control of patronage
Court festivities
Queens could rule by themselves
Parliament was still important
Puritans vs. Anglicans
Puritans
• Simple worship
• Equality within
church government
• Parliament
Anglicans
• Ornate ceremonies
• Religious hierarchy
headed by monarch
• The Church of
England
Civil War
• Beheading of King
Charles I
(Anglican/The Church
of England)
• Victory for
parliamentary army
(Puritan)
• Twelve years without a
monarch
Glorious Revolution
Monarch
• James II
• Absolutist
Parliament
• Shared
power
Glorious Revolution
• Parliament and monarch must
rule together
• King William III and Queen
Mary II
• Church of England became
official church
• Presbyterians and Jews could
practice their religion
• Catholicism was “forbidden”
• Nobility and merchant classes
got a say
Political Writings
 Leviathan by Thomas
Hobbes
 Defending absolute
power
 Two Treatises of Civil
Government by John
Locke
 Focused on rights of
people
 Discussed consequences
of unlimited power
Mercantilist Wars
 Conflict over trade
regions
 Merchants smuggled
goods into enemy
territory
 Mostly outside of Europe
 Led to French and
Indian War
 Britain emerged as
greatest power
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