Saturday, August 26, 2017
'European Absolutism and Tyranny'
'During the 16th and seventeenth century was a period of owing(p) upheaval in Europe. Religious and territorial reserve conflicts caused continuous state of war, which caused the political science to lay heavier taxes on the suffering populations to say the large standing(a) army. The pressures brought the peasants to revolt. In response, as unquestioning rulers, monarchs act to increase their get power. They created new governance bureaucracies to direct the preservation of their ground. Their goal was to control all the typeface of society, with no limitations. moreover with the freedom, they could rule as the sheer(a) monarchs. compulsive monarchs believed in prophesy rights, which they acted as the congresswoman of God on Earth. They only answered to God, not to his or her subjects. The European absolutism was a period of tyranny, due(p) to the with child(p) tax income toward the peasants, the limit kernel of freedom, and the harsh rules that the absolute monarc hs rule at.\nThe absolute monarchs compel heavy taxes on the peasants which caused their country staggered in debt and scathe its economy. \nEvery course of instruction, the power of Spain had an income of five one billion millions of opulent, only if his expenses were six millions, and this wasted is covered by extraordinary taxes fit to the aspects that he ruled over (Document 8). The increase taxation let the absolute monarchs to prove the government, but too the government was plunged into the lurch debt. As the Debt of gallant Family chart showed that the form 1643 the debt was 400 million livres, and it steadily change magnitude until 1683. After, it increased such(prenominal) more than ever. During the year 1715, the debt was about 2000 million livres. The increased core of the debts because the constant warfare that France fought and Louis XIV had constructed the castling of Versailles (Document 10). King of Spain already got lots of gold from other count ries, but it was not replete for him to thrash the expenses. To overcome the expenses, he imposed heavier tax...'
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