Villalobos Eamon Barkhordarian

Period C 11/1/08

Review Questions pg. 118

1. Identify
a. St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
i. Occurred August 24, 1572. As Huguenot and Catholic nobles
gathered to celebrate a royal wedding, violence erupted that led to a
massacre of 3,000 Huguenots. In the next few days, thousands more
were slaughtered. For many, St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
symbolized the complete breakdown of order in France.
b. Edict of Nantes
i. Granted in 1598 that granted the Huguenots religious toleration and
let them fortify their own towns and cities.
c. Fronde
i. In an uprising called the Fronde, nobles, merchants, peasants, and
the urban poor rebelled across France, each group for its own
reasons.
d. Versailles
i. A palace that Louis XIV created from a royal hunting lodge. He
spared no expense to make it the most magnificent building in
Europe. It was the perfect symbol of the Sun King’s wealth and
power. It housed at least 10,000 people from nobles and officials to
servants.
e. War of the Spanish Succession
i. In the War of the Spanish Succession several European powers
combined to stop French succession to the Spanish throne which
would likely have been a resulting shift in the European balance of
power. The War of the Spanish Succession dragged on until France
signed the Treaty of Utrecht.
2. Define
a. Intendant
i. Royal officials that collected taxes, recruited soldiers, and carried
out Louis XIV’s policies in the provinces.
b. Levee
i. Morning rituals during which nobles would wait upon King Louis
XIV.
c. Balance of power
i. A distribution of military and economic power that would prevent
any one nation from dominating Europe.
3.
a. What were the effects of the French wars of religion?
i. Took a lot of wealth from Louis XIV’s empire. Rival ruler’s joined
forces to check French ambitions. These forces joined forces to
maintain the balance of power.
b. How did Henry IV rebuild French unity?
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Period C 11/1/08

i. Under Henry, the government reached into every area of French life.
Royal officials administered justice, improving roads, built bridges,
and revived agriculture. By building the royal bureaucracy and
reducing the influence of nobles, Henry IV laid the foundations for
royal absolutism.
4. Describe how Louis XIV strengthened the power of the monarchy.
a. He took full power for himself, and from then on insisted on taking all
major decisions personally. His main personal interests were in foreign
policy, national defence, and war: it was in those areas that his power
became truly absolute.
5. How did Louis’s persecution of the Huguenots harm France?
a. The Huguenots had been among the most hard working and prosperous of
Louis’s subjects. Their loss was thus a serious blow to the French economy,
just as the expulsion of Muslims and Jews had hurt Spain.
6. How were the ideas of Louis XIV about monarchy similar to those of Philip II of
Spain?
a. The two both centralized royal power, making every part of the government
responsible to himself. They both reigned as absolute monarchs, A ruler
with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people.