 Take
your seat
 Take our your Warm-Ups/Timed Writing
 Terms Test Moved Friday
Timed Writing
Analyze the political arguments in support
of Divine Right and Absolutism during
the 17th century.
 Timed Writing
 Interactive
- Class Discussion
Notes – Absolutism in Central
Europe
 Homework:
• Finish reading and terms
The Hapsburgs, Prussian and
Romanov Empires
Explain the development of Absolutism in
Eastern Europe. Which countries
become the most powerful and why?
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Economically less advanced
than western Europe
• Agrarian economy
• No overseas empires
• Little to no overseas trade
 exception of grain Politically
unstable region due to continual
conflict
• Three Absolutist powers emerge
1. Habsburg Austria
2. Prussia begins to merge with
N. Germany
3. Imperial Russia – Romanov
Dynasty
 most
Polish monarchs
were foreigners and tools
for foreign powers
 Sejm or diet - a central
legislative body
• no real power
• any single veto, liberum veto,
could stop a Sejm
 (exploding the diet)
 Result
John III Sobieski at the
Battle of Vienna
= Poland disappears
from map in 18th century
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Hapsburgs maintained the title of Holy
Roman Emperor, but it no longer held
the same power.
territories were geographically &
culturally diverse = no real central
government
empire increases under Leopold I,
Joseph I, and Charles VI
• Pragmatic Sanction – Charles VI
legal basis for a single line of
inheritance within the Hapsburg
dynasty putting his daughter
Maria Theresa in charge

Frederick of Prussia invades Hapsburg
Empire and puts Maria at risk in 1740
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Frederick William, the Great Elector
• raised taxes to build an army
• Junkers could enforce serfdom
• army and Elector become powerful allies
Quick-Write:
Looking
at the maps to the
Frederick William’s successors
• William
I, helps why
Hapsburgs
in War of
left,
explain
Prussia
is
Spanish Succession, becomes King of
growing.
Prussia Given that we know
 Frederick William I – most successful Prussian
Prussia
no longer exists today,
leader
symbol of power and unity, while staying out of
what do
you think happens to
war
• Frederick
or Great –
this
majorIIEuropean
power?

 invaded Silesia starting long AustrianPrussian rivalry
c
c
The Romanov dynasty
is established with
Michael Romanov 17.
The only Russian
royal family  lasted
for 304 years!
 Brought
Russia
stability to
Romanov Family Crest
The Pendulum
of Russian History
Think-Pair-Share
Pro-West
For Progress & Change
Encourage New Ideas,
Technologies, etc.
Anti-West
Isolationist
Xenophobic
Ultra-Conservative
Why do you think this pendulum
exists
in Russian History?
What
 A few Tsars
 Most Tsars
makes
itelites
so different then
these
 Intellectual
Russian Orthodox
Church
 Merchants/businessmen
other European nations Military
that it has
 Young members of the
this
tradition
of constantly
being
middle
class.
 Boyars
behind?  peasants
REFORM-MINDED
LEADER
DEMAGOGUE
 Take
your seat
 Take our your Warm-Ups/Timed Writing
 Begin Precious Time
Precious Time
Work on anything you need to in your
notebook
 Precious Time
 Review/Discuss
Peter the Great
 Discuss “Masters
of the Universe”
 Homework:
• Finish Ch. 13 Notebook and TH Test
 Period 2 Notebook Due tomorrow
 Period 4 Notebook Due Wednesday
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Increased the size of the
military and improved navy
The Great Northern War –
defeats the Swedes and takes
control of Estonia, Lithuania,
parts of Finland
St. Petersburg –built in honor of
himself with places forcibly built
by the boyars that resembled
small versions of Versailles
• Window to the west
Bought the nobility and Russian
Orthodox Church more closely
under Tsar’s rule.
 Table of Ranks – service to
country became more important
than lineage

• Meritocracy based system

abolishes the patriarch and puts
in its place the Holy Synod
• Brings power of the church under
the Emperor

1725 – Peter dies and leaves no
successor as Russia becomes
unstable
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Dominant political power in
Muslim World after 1516
More religious tolerant than
Europe
sultans governed their empire
through millets
• officially recognized religious
communities


religious discrimination =
Dhimmis
devshirme – Christian boys
recruited and raised as Muslims
and put into the military as
infantry troops known as
Janissaries
• basically well treated slaves
 Unsuccessfully
attempt to expand their
empire into Europe.
 the power of the main political figure the
vizier grows and splits up the empire
 Europe passes the Ottomans in learning,
science, and military prowess = stronger
European armies
 Ottomans suffer military loses to the united
European states and Russia losing land and
revenue
Europe
sees EMPIRE
the Ottoman
as one
in By
Map
13–5
THE OTTOMAN
IN THE LATEEmpire
SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY.
the 1680s
the Ottoman
Empire
had reached
maximum extent,
but the Ottoman
decline
and
Islam
as anits inferior
religion
failure to capture Vienna in 1683 marked the beginning of a long and inexorable
decline that ended with the empire’s collapse after World War I.
Explain the development of Absolutism in
Eastern Europe. Which countries
become the most powerful and why?