Wonderful Wednesday– Oct.

22 nd

 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.
 Today’s Agenda
 Timed Writing - Class Discussion

 Interactive Notes – Absolutism in Central

Europe

 Homework:
• Finish reading and terms
Absolutism in Eastern Europe
The Hapsburgs, Prussian and
Romanov Empires
 Focus Question
Explain the development of Absolutism in
Eastern Europe. Which countries
become the most powerful and why?
 Central and Eastern Europe
 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
 Poland with no Central Authority
 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 = Poland disappears
John III Sobieski at the
Battle of Vienna
from map in 18th century
 The Hapsburg Empire and the Pragmatic
Sanction
 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
Prussia under the Hohenzollern
Family
 Frederick William, the Great Elector
Quick-Write:
• raised taxes to build an army
• Junkers could enforce serfdom
• army and Elector become powerful allies

Looking at the maps to the

Frederick William’s successors
left, explain
• William I, helps why Prussia
Hapsburgs in War of is
Spanish Succession, becomes King of
growing.
Prussia Given that we know
Prussia no longer exists today,
 Frederick William I – most successful Prussian
leader
what do war you think happens to
symbol of power and unity, while staying out of

this majorIIEuropean
• Frederick or Great – power?
 invaded Silesia starting long Austrian-
Prussian rivalry
 Russia – The Romanov Dynasty (1613-
1917)
c The Romanov dynasty
is established with
Michael Romanov 17.
c The only Russian
royal family  lasted
for 304 years!
 Brought stability to
Russia

Romanov Family Crest

 The Pendulum
of Russian History
Think-Pair-Share
Pro-West Anti-West
For Progress & Change Isolationist
Why do you think this pendulum
Encourage New Ideas,
Technologies, etc.
Xenophobic
Ultra-Conservative

exists
 A few Tsars
in Russian History? What
 Most Tsars
makes itelites
 Intellectual so different then these
Russian Orthodox
Church
other European
 Merchants/businessmen
 Young members of the
nations that
 Military it has
this tradition
middle class. of constantly
 Boyars being
behind?
 peasants

REFORM-MINDED
LEADER DEMAGOGUE
 Wonderful Wednesday– Oct. 22 nd

 Take your seat

 Take our your Warm-Ups/Timed Writing
 Begin Precious Time

Precious Time

Work on anything you need to in your

notebook
 Today’s Agenda
 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
 Peter the Great – Early Years

 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
Peter the Great – Later Years
 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
 The Ottoman Government
 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
 The End of the Ottoman Empire
 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
Map 13–5 THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THE LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. By the
1680s
Europe
 the sees the Ottoman Empire as one in
Ottoman Empire had reached its maximum extent, but the Ottoman failure to capture
Vienna in 1683 marked the beginning of a long and inexorable decline that ended with the
empire’sdecline
collapse afterand
World Islam
War I. as an inferior religion
 Focus Question
Explain the development of Absolutism in
Eastern Europe. Which countries
become the most powerful and why?