Unit 3 - Age of Absolutism
Unit Focuses:
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)
How government’s function economically (Mercantilism leads the way!)
Night 3: 511-516
Night 4: 516-524 (not 522-523)
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!)
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
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”