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6). Results of Louis XIV’s actions were 100,000 French Huguenots, Protestants, left France less revenue from taxes, and the economy was destroyed. King Louis XIV and Czar Peter the Great both created palaces with their power and by doing this turned out to create cultural centers for the economy but on the down side they destroyed their economies (Doc 2)...
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King Louis XIV and Czar Peter the Great both created palaces with their power and by doing this turned out to create cultural centers for the economy but on the down side they destroyed their economies (Doc 2). Some accomplishments from Peter the Great besides building St...
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DBQ Absolutism and Democracy October 15, 2006 DBQ Absolutism and Democracy During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there were two forms of government. The two forms of government were democracy and absolutism...	2 / 502
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Absolutism: The Best Form of Government God establishes kings; so therefore, a monarch's authority to govern should be absolute. In Document 3, Bishop Jacques Benigne Bossuet writes that God establishes kings as his ministers and reigns through them over the people...	3 / 609
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