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Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Finance minister of King Louis XIV, mercantilism
Petition of Right
Parliament issued it against Charles I - “You have to get our permission to tax people, you have to follow habeas corpus”
Intendant System
Richelieu in France, civil servants worked at local level and answered directly to the king
Protectorate
Oliver Cromwell, Military dictatorship
William of Orange
Dutch spotholder, from Netherlands, take over as King of England, signs English Bill of Rights
War of Spanish Succession
No heir to the Spanish Habsburg Dynasty throne, lead to creation of Bourbon dynasty in Spain, people upset throne could go to Bourbon king Phillip, ended with Treaty of Utrecht
Agricultural Revolution
Movement to create more commercial farms through new technology, gets rid of the commons
St. Petersburg
New capital in Russia created by Peter the Great, his version of a Versailles, Window on the West
divine right
God gave the king the right to rule