Centralization and New Elites Notebook #18 AP World History Modern

Philip II in Spain

a Spanish ruler who used money and power to control the nobles

Louis XIV in France

a Spanish ruler who used money and power to control the nobles

Divine Right of Kings

a doctrine held that the king received his authority directly from God, and therefore, could not be questioned

Palace of Versailles

magnificent palace in Versailles France

the gentry

a new class of powerful people emerging in which regular citizens and merchants began to accumulate massive amounts of wealth, and purchased land, and then sold grain on a marketplace

commercialization

This concept of selling agriculture for profit

Enclosure Movement

a movement to the close off or build a fence around their lands, and the removal of the traditional peasantry

Common Land Rights

a right that enabled peasants to use the land for hunting and gathering as they please, so long as they maintained the corvée labor payments to the Manor

private property

property owned by individuals or companies, not by the government or the people as a whole

The House of Lords

England's Parliament which was limited to nobility and clergy

House of Commons

a second house in English Parliament which gave individuals of non-noble birth authority in England's legislative body