The Age of Absolutism, 1660-1815 |
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administrative affairs Age of Absolutism American ancien régime aristocracy army attempt Austria Bohemia Britain British Castille Catalonia central Charles Charles III Charles VI Church colonies colonists commerce Controller-General Controller-General of finance Council court created Crown death despite dominant dynasty economic eighteenth century Empire England enlightened despotism Estates Europe European existed fact favour Ferdinand VI feudal fiscal foreign France Frederick French Revolution German Habsburg hereditary Hungarian Hungary ideas imperial important industrial institutions Joseph King lands latter legislation Louis XIV Magyar ment military ministers modern monarch monopoly Napoleonic nobility nobles officers Parlements Parliament peace peasants period Peter Philip physiocratic Poland political population Portugal principle privileges provinces reforms reign religious remained revenues revolutionary rôle royal rule rulers Russia Secretaries serfdom serfs seventeenth century Silesia social society Spain Spanish succession successors taxation taxes territorial tion trade wars wealth western whole XIV's