Unit 3 - Age of Absolutism

Unit Focuses:

    1. The centralization of political power in the hands of a monarch as the main form of government in European states (aside from England!)

      • Night 1: 472-476; “Charles I Authorizes Sunday Recreations”

      • Night 2: 476-477; Section 1 (pgs. 1-3)

    2. How government’s function economically (Mercantilism leads the way!)

      • Night 3: 511-516

      • Night 4: 516-524 (not 522-523)

    3. How the monarchy is able to respond with the state’s resources both politically and economically (the State becomes a big bully to weaker States!)

      • Night 4: 516-524 (not 522-523)

      • (majority of the rest of the readings!)

    4. England’s transition from monarchical-driven state to a parliamentarian-driven state (Absolutism turns into Constitutionalism!)

      • Night 5: 477-485

      • Night 6: 485-487; Section 5 (pgs. 14-17)

      • Night 7: Section 6 (18-21)

      • Night 8: English Bill of Rights; Two Treatises of Government: Various Excerpts

    5. Absolutism throughout Europe is utilized to gain control within the State and grow the borders of the State through war

      • Night 9: 487-489; Section 3 (pgs 7-9);

      • Night 10: “Hobbes Describes the Natural State of War, Leviathan”

      • Night 11: 492-493, 496-497; Section 2 (pgs 4-6)

      • Night 12: 524-528

      • Night 13: 489-492, 494-495

      • Night 14: Section 4 (pgs. 10-13); “The Ottoman Sultan’s Declaration of War Against the Empire”

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