Kick offOctober 28, 2013

Name at least 4 qualities that are important for a monarch to possess and tell why.

Pair/share

•Discuss the list of qualities with your partner.•Are your qualities similar or

different? Why do you think that is?

•Did your partner bring up any qualities that you would add to you list?

•What quality is the most important? Why?

Chapter 18.1Absolutism in Spain and France

Map activity• With your partner, label and

shade the following countries:

• France

• England

• Russia

• Austria

• Ireland

• SPAIN

• Label and shade the following bodies of water:

• Atlantic ocean

• Mediterranean Sea

• Baltic Sea

• English Channel

• Label and shade the following cities:

• London

• Madrid

• Paris

• Moscow

• Rome

• Vienna

• St. Petersburg

• Textbook pages: 534, 539, 555, 557, 566

Age of Absolutism: Spain

•With your partner, answer the questions on the “Section Quiz.”

•You will have 15 minutes. Use your notebook and your textbook to help you!

Age of absolutism: spain

Age of absolutism: france

• With your partner, read and complete the Interactive Reader.

• Be sure to highlight/underline key points!

Religious Wars and Henry IV

• By 1560s, 10% of France was Huguenot (Calvinist, protestant)• Many were nobles

• 1562 - Conflict between Catholic monarchy and Huguenots

• 1572 - Queen of France orders St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre• Slaughter of Huguenots• Henry of Navarre becomes

Henry IV after converting to Catholicism

Compromise and Progress

• Henry wanted peace between Catholics and Huguenots• Signed Edict of Nantes

in 1598• Gave Huguenots limited

freedom of worship• Catholicism still remained

official religion

Louis XIII and Richelieu

• Henry IV stabbed to death

• Louis XIII becomes king at early age• Weak ruler

• Cardinal Richelieu = chief minister• Strengthen monarchy• Reduced power of

Huguenots

Louis XIV

• Best example of an absolute monarch

• Mazarin = chief administrator

• Demanded absolute control

• Removed nobles from Paris, forced them to come to Versailles

Protestantism, Money, Military

• Revoked Edict of Nantes, smashed Protestantism, forced 200,000 Huguenots out of France

• Lavish spending habits saved by efficient policies of finance minister, Colbert

• Built up huge military to regain French territory

• War of Spanish Succession was most costly• Spanish king died without heir, three rulers

claimed it• England, Netherlands, HRE went to war w/

France• Treaty of Utrecht allowed Louis’ grandson to

take throne but said France and Spain would never be ruled by same person

Versailles

• Look at Louis’ floor plan for the Palace of Versailles

• How would you design your ideal palace? What would the floor plan be like? How many rooms would you have? What activity rooms would you have? How would you decorate your palace? Come up with a design on a separate sheet of paper, to be turned it. You have unlimited money to spend since you are an absolute monarch.

• Be creative!! Use magazine clippings, internet pictures, etc.