Centralization in Europe ( AP World History)

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reason for the governments focus on creating organized taxation and bureaucracy

Europeans gaining wealth from trade

Used money and power to control the nobility

Louis XIV (France) and Phillip II (Spain)

powerful centralized system run by a monarch with a professional
standing army rather than one dependent on the local soldiers of nobles

division of power between Kings and nobility

roles of nobility in government

nobles were incorporated into the central bureaucracy by Louis XIV

Devine rights of the KIng

a theological doctrine that said that the King was a vessel through which God ruled

Versailles Palace

monuments that were constructed to symbolize the Kings power; a result of the Devine Rights of King doctrine

The Gentry

non- nobel citizens and merchants who accumulated mass amounts of wealth and land

commercialization

selling agriculture for profit

Enclosure and removal of Common Land Rights

In order to utilize maximize the amount of land and labor that can be used for agricultural production, the gentry started to close off their land with fences. This enclosure stripped peasants of their right to the land ( Common Land Rights)

House of Lords

The nobility and clergy ( half of the parliament )

House of Commons

consisted of the gentry class ( the other half of parliament that gained power as the gentry class gained more wealth)