The Sun and Tsar

​The Sun and Tsar

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• I can examine absolutism through a comparison of the reigns of Louis XIV and Tsar Peter the Great

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Learning Targets

Roman Numerals

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• L = 50

• C = 100

• D = 500

• M = 1,000

• I = 1

• V = 5

• X = 10

• If a smaller number comes after a larger number - add

• If a smaller number comes before a larger number -subtract

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• Who had the power during Feudalism?

• 1300s Monarchs consolidate their power

• 1600s many have absolute power

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Feudalism to Absolutism

Louis XIV

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• Became King at the age of 4 in 1643

• His mother and regents ruled on his behalf until he was 22

• Technically the longest reigning monarch in history - 72 years, 110 days

• Queen Elizabeth II - the 2nd longest - 70 years, 214 days

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• His life was threatened as a child

• 1661 - he took control of the government

• Determined to consolidate power

• Had been threatened by 3 groups of people: common people of France, Catholic clergy, and landed nobles

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Road to Absolutism

Solutions of the Sun King

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• Common people = move Monarch residence to Versailles (12 miles from Paris) in 1682

• Catholic clergy = loyalty to King by repealing the Edit of Nantes (Protestants can worship freely) in 1685

• Landed Nobility = replaced officials with intendants, lived at the Palace of Versailles

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• hold up to 10,000 people

• 700 major rooms (bedrooms, ballrooms)

• 2,300 rooms in total (bathrooms, staff rooms)

• amusement park of absolutism

• hunting, parties, operas, dinners, gardens, endless activities

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Palace of Versailles

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• redefined the power of the Romanov family in the early 1700s

• consolidated power to be absolute monarch

• faced more challenges than Louis XIV did

• Russia was not as linked to the outside world like France

• one trading port in Archangel, and small community of Dutch and German merchants in Moscow

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Tsar Peter the Great

Challenges

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• Boyars - the nobles who still depended on feudalism

• Clergy - Eastern Orthodox

• Geographic Isolation - politically, economically, and technologically

• Russia needed to look to the West in order to modernize

• 1696 - took a grand tour of Europe

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• established a newspaper

• elevated the status of noblewomen

• ordered the Boyars to match European fashion

• established schools of navigation, arts, and science with faculty trained in Europe

• replaced government roles with commoners

• abolished the Patriarch and replaced with the Holy Synod

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Solutions

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• modernized the Russian army and navy

• took territory from Sweden to establish a warm water port in St. Petersburg

• New modern capital now St. Petersburg instead of Moscow as a "window to Europe"

• everything was built in the Baroque style (like the Palace of Versailles)

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Solutions cont.

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Assignment - Funko Pops

• Choose either Louis XIV or Tsar Peter the Great as your main Funko Pop

• The other one will be one of your mini ones

• Write 5 facts about your main in the biography section from the Wayground only

• Draw 2 accessories that would represent them

• Choose one other European monarchs at the time of the Revolutions who also represent absolutism for the other mini Funko pops

  George III of England* Catherine the Great of Russia

  Louis XVI of France* Joseph II of Austria

• Can Google these people for your drawings

• MUST be in color!