Name: ____________________________
Global History and Geography
Date: ________
Aim #5: How did Machiavelli shape the power of monarchs during the Age of Absolutism?
Person / Monarch
What They Did
Niccolo Machiavelli: (1469-1527)
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Wrote the book, The Prince – how to guide to run a state
Father of Political Science
“End Justify the Means”
Do what is necessary to achieve your goal
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
King Louie XIV: 1638-1715
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Peter the Great: (1672-1725)
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Louie 14 – velvet glove (sneaky)
Sun King - “I am the State” – I am France
Bankrupts France – it’s okay  chosen by God
Google Earth  Versailles (canal built in a shape of a cross)
Hall of Mirror  expensive and rare to have mirrors
Whole mirrors placed along the hall of mirrors
French Revolution – 1st time they saw themselves in a mirror
Built a Church within to pay homage
Nobles quietly come to his bedchambers to wake him up
Marble Staircase  expensive and rare
27 mile canals to have gardens water fountains - 100
Started the trend of wearing heels
1st to drink champagne at events
Peter the Great – takes the city back from the Nobles and names St.
Petersburg after himself.
Takes land from the Nobles
Rules by brute force  iron fist
Looks like a French/Spanish monarch – not a Russian Czar
Western style  westernizes Russia compared to Ivan the Terrible
(robe/long beard)
Wanted warm water ports (no money if boats are not moving)
To this, he had to go to war with Sweden
Peterhof- The Grand Palace – Versailles of Russia
St. Petersburg Square – many died building it- it was a swamp
Cathedral of the Resurrection Christ (built lavish palaces to flex muscles
and show power)