Lecture Slides, GMU, His 125 009, Fall 2019

1. Absolutism and
Prosperity
Week 10

2. Overview
• 1500-1763
• Absolutism
– Japan
– France
– China
– The Ottoman Empire
• Constitutionalism
– Great Britain
• The Seven Years’ War
Süleyman giving advice to the
Crown Prince, Mehmed Khan

3. Absolutism
The Landing of Marie de’
Medici at Marseilles, Rubens,
1622-1624

4. Absolute Monarchs
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) Louis XIV (1638-1715)

5. Japan

6. Japan
• Sengoku (16th century)
– Emperor
– Daimyo
• Tokugawa Shogunate
(1600 – 1867)
– Tokugawa Ieyasu (r. 1603
– 1616)
– Battle of Sekhigara, 1600
– Shogun
• Absolutism
– Bakufu
– Edo

7. Daimyo Castle
White Heron Castle, Himeji, c. 1600

8. Population Growth
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
1600 1700 1850
Millions
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9. Japanese Society
• Class
– Daimyo
– Merchants
– Peasants
• Culture
– Ukiyo
– Kabuki
• Religion
– Shintoism
– Neo-Confucianism
– Buddhism
– Christianity
– Shimabara, 1638
• Trade
– Dutch Learning
• Military

10. The Commercial District of Osaka

11. Europe After the Peace of Westphalia, 1648

12. Louis XIV (b. 1638, r. 1643-1715)
• The Sun King
• Bourbon Dynasty
• The Fronde
• The Nobles/Aristocracy
• Intendants
• Versailles
• Mercantilism
• Religion
– Abolishes the Edict of
Nantes
• War of Spanish
Succession (1702-1713)

13. Louis’ Wars

14. Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911)
• Ming
• Monetization
• Li Zicheng, 1644
• Manchus
– Nurhaci (r. 1616 – 1626)
• Government
– Civil Service Examination
• Economy
• Manchu Culture
– Neo-Confucianism
– Queue Edict, 1645
• Banner System
• Emperor (Son of Heaven)
– Kangxi (1661-1722)
– Qianglong (1736-1795)

15. The Qing Empire

17. Foot Binding

18. Kangxi Emperor (1661-1722)

19. Chinese Population Growth
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20. Ottoman Empire
• Sultan
– Mehmed II (1432-1481)
– Suleiman the Magnificent (1494-
1566)
• Expansion
• Vienna, 1683
– Kara Mustafa Pasha
– John III Sobieski
• Mamluks
• Koprulu Reforms
• Sharia
• Education
– Ulama
– Printing Press, 1729
• Tulip Period
• Grand Vizier Damat Ibrahim (r.
1718-1730)
Polish Winged Hussar

21. Suleiman the Magnificent

22. Siege of Vienna, 1683

23. The Ottoman Empire

24. Two Models of Government:
• Absolutism
– France
– China
– Spain
– Ottoman Empire
– Russia
– Safavid Persia
– Mughal India
• Constitutionalism
– Great Britain
– The Netherlands/Dutch
Republic
– Italian City-States
– Poland-Lithuania
• By 18th Century, two choices:

25. Poland-Lithuania

26. The British Example
• Stuart Dynasty
• Civil War (1642-1646)
– Oliver Cromwell
(b. 1600, r. 1647-1658)
• The Restoration
(1658-1688)
• Glorious Revolution
(1688)
– English Bill of Rights
• Board of Trade (1696)
• Act of Union (1707)
• Hanoverian Dynasty
(1714-1901)
• Parliament
William III and Mary II

27. Great Britain and the British Empire

28. The Seven Years’ War/French and
Indian War (1756-1763)
• Mercantilism
• European Allies
– Britain, Prussia, Portugal
– France, Austria, Russia, Spain
• The Ohio Country
• The Iroquois League
• “Half-King”
• Battle of the Monongahela,
1755
• Battle of Plassey, 1757
• Battle of Rossbach, 1757
• Battle of the Plains of
Abraham, 1759
• Results
– Treaty of Paris, 1763
– Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707)

30. North
America,
c. 1713

31. The Iroquois League

32. Iroquois King/Sachem, c. 1710

33. Col. George Washington,
Charles Wilson Peale, 1772

34. Jumonville Glen

35. Fort Necessity

36. Fort Necessity

37. Fort Necessity

38. India

39. North
America,
c. 1763

40. European Empires