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18 Cards in this Set
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Netherlands
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First European republic, with central government (States General) and provincial authorities
Agricultural success, economic success, financial success Declined after Willian III died - everything stagnated and other nations caught up |
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Louis XV
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Lous XIV's great-grandson; became king at the age of five
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Duke of Orleans
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Regent for Louis VX, wan't very good at anything
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John Law
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France's financial minister and a gambler; source of the Mississippi Bubble Scandal
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Mississippi Company
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Sold stock and issued paper money; France ran out of gold; there were problems
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Cardinal Fleury
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Chief court minister who improved France's economy somewhat, but lacked the funding for dramatic improvement
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Whigs
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Favored by George I because the opposed the French; supported Parliamentary sovreignty, commercial interests, and toleration
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Tories
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Not favored by George I because they preferred peace with France; supported strong monarchy, low taxes, and Anglicanism
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Robert Walpole
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Unofficial first Prime Minister of Britian; created the South Sea Company and saved the economy
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Pragmatic Sanction
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Charkes VI of Austria secured a successor, his daughter Maria Theresa
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Frederick William the Great Elector (of Prussia)
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Broke local noble estates and organized a royal bureaucracy
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Frederick Willian I
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Granted title King of Prussia after helping the Habsburgs in the War of Spanish Succession; beginning of kabinett government; transformed allegiance into a duty; built a huge army
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Boyars
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Old rich
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Streltsy
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Guards of the Moscow garrison
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Peter the Great
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Sought to copy Western Europe; built St. Petersburg
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Administrative colleges
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Bureaus operating according to written instruction, instead of departments with a single minister; managed taxes, foreign relations, war, and economic affairs
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Table of Ranks
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Equated social position and privileges with loyalty to Peter
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Religious reform
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Peter replaced the patriarch with a Holy Synod headed by a lay procurator general
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