Alex Bryant 12 January 2023 APWH Mr. Stevens The Development of Monarchical Control: Early Modern Era During the feudal post-classical era, peasants resided on ‘common land’ owned by higher, noble classes. Due to their needs being met, and ignorance of the other, better ways, they could live their lives, they were content with these feudal common land beliefs. As time progressed into the Early Modern Era, people began questioning everything. A plethora of inventions were introduced, bringing Europe out of the dark ages, and advancing other nations' knowledge through newly created ways such as Gutenburg’s printing press. This printing press not only allowed for the spread of ideas, but it made scriptures more affordable; cheap enough for even …show more content…
Different empires used culture in different ways. For example, the Mughal’s demonstrated a relative tolerance for outside cultures whilst east Asia focused more on a pure internal culture, disregarding external influences. In Document 1, we can see that due to their foreign culture, the rajapous are being exploited for their natural ability to fight if they do not pay tribute. The author of this document claimed that the only reasons that the Mughal’s accepted such people was due to what they could bring to the table. The use of culture to strengthen power is also seen in Document 6 depicting the Chinese education system. Ming China followed Confucianism during this era. The reason these people were forced to read these four books regarding Confucious before they even knew the characters was so that once they learned them, they would only know of Confusism. Had they been taught before, they may have had the ability to read scriptures of other followings; or foreign culture. During this era, spread of foreign ideas was exactly what China was trying to avoid. The purpose of this document is to point out …show more content…
The first document that supports this is Document 2. We can see multiple edicts issued by the Chinese Emperor. The most notable is the fourth, which tries to get law-abiding peasants to team up with him against the “obstinate”; or the stubborn ones willing to revolt. These laws strengthen the emperor’s position and ultimately cause the peasants uprising power to wane. Another document that supports this is Document 3. This document shows how the French ruler disregards the lives of the ones below him so long as he and his empire continues to prosper. These feudal castles he was referring to were doing nothing but costing him money, so in his eyes, why should they persist? This shows how the French ruler was strengthening control over his lower classes. Document 7 also demonstrates this claim by describing the role of the lower class. The author is saying that god has created everyone with differentiated status for the sake of humanity's needs. They are saying that through this differentiation comes a great ruler that unites everyone for the greater good. The most likely purpose of this document is to stress the importance of having an absolute monarchy, and how it is good. The author most likely wants to convince everyone that what they are doing is correct, and attempt to spread it around, showing the strengthening of a
The main sources that the author relies on are the merchant manuals, for they were likeminded and resembled Confucius philosophy. The author uses these manuals, which “were imbued to some extent with the desire to teach Confucian morality,” to support his main argument. The foremost purpose of these merchant manuals in late imperial China was “to help people achieve success and attain wealth through commerce.”
The main theme that entangles itself in all of the source material is the idea of how governments should be run in such a powerful empire, such as Imperial Rome and the Han Dynasty. Starting with the first source, it is evident that the first Qin emperor believed that only the orthodox teachings should be tolerated, which meant that the works of the Five Classics and its teachings were to be extinguished. The next primary source serves as a supplement to explaining the fall of the Qin dynasty due to its warring ideas and Jia Yi argues that if Confucius teachings were implemented then the dynasty would have still been intact. The third source explains how the Qin dynasty was unjust in its equal appropriation of punishment against criminals regardless of motives or social class. Essentially, Dong Zhongshu believed that a dynasty could not be successful if it failed to establish a fair and righteous justice system for its citizens.
Different factors played a part in the change of the world from 1500-1750 to reach the modern world that we see today but the printing press and the way it impacted the spread and accessibility of literature and how it connected to newfound religious ideas was by far the most powerful. To begin, the printing press led to the spread and accessibility of literature. The creation of the printing press led to a big domino effect as “printing made books less expensive and more available”1 allowing for a larger quantity of writings to be produced for a cheaper price for the consumer giving more people the opportunity to purchase and read different works evidently leading to increased literacy rates. The printing press also affected the spread of writings as “printing revolutionized the speed and range of distribution of texts”2. This increase of speed and range can be concluded due to the fact that literature before the printing press had been handwritten.
During the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation began due to the use of the printing press to spread new religious ideas, the corruption of the clergy, and the Church’s practice of the sale of indulgences. The printing press was used to spread new
In Domat’s “Social Order And Absolute Monarchy” the argument is that monarchs should stay in power and that is their divine right to rule that would keep society together, monarchs are natural and necessary form of government that society should follow. Jean is of the mindset that monarchies are one of the most effective and natural forms of government, however he mistaken to believe this. “The first distinction that subjects people to others is the one created by birth between parents and children. And this distinction leads to a first kind of government in families, where children owe obedience to their parents who head the family. The second distinction among persons arises from the diversity of employment required by society” (Domat 28).
The abuses of absolute rulers were the starting point of revolutions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For example, Louis XVI of France became king at a very young so he had no experience. Although he was inexperienced, that is not an excuse for the countless amount of times he ignored the people’s needs and requests because he wanted control. For example, he ignored the people’s demands to enforce the
The nobility declared they have rights to hunt on the land of peasants and they had monopolies on the ovens, wine and oil presses (Spielvogel, 555). This indicated the Europe was dominated by the powerful lords who had the large landed estate. It should be studied today because it indicated the relationship between the peasants and land owners at that time.
Chapter 19: Describe the impact of the printing press on the protestant reformation. Johann Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press led to mass production of information that was, for the first time, available to the public. The printing press created a new era of the informed individual with the ability to develop their own opinions. In the 16th century, the Roman Church’s Greedy and Immoral acts began to escalate; This made it clear that there was a need for change. One man, Martin Luther, noticed the offenses made by the church and decided to act by writing the 95 subjects he disagreed on with the church.
Between the 1500’s and 1600’s absolute monarchs had a great power over their kingdoms. Absolute monarch means one monarch who has unlimited power over a kingdom. During this time absolute monarchs believed that they had the “divine right” to rule over a kingdom, because they were chosen from God to be on the throne. Absolute monarchs did not share power with moves, parliaments, or the church. The absolute monarchs of the 1500’s and 1600’s showed that they held a great deal of power over their kingdoms.
The Ninety-Five Theses criticized the practices of the Catholic Church, including the selling of indulgences. Leading up to the Protestant Reformation, advances in writing and book producing took place. Scribes used to write original books and make the copies by hand. Then, in the mid- 1450’s, Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press. He made this invention secretively, so no one knew his failures, or what he was thinking when he made it.
Shanti Gurung History 101 Final Exam Professor Montague 12/06/2015 1. As some 16th and 17th c. leaders sought to strengthen their control over both the legislative and administrative machinery of their respective kingdoms, others witnessed the destruction of absolutism as their principle governing philosophy. What obstacles did English royalty face in their effort to establish an absolute monarchy in the early decades of the 17th century? (Hint: Remember the tactics monarchs employed to achieve absolutism.)
Absolute monarchies had all the power in Europe. Their kingdoms were powerful and accomplished. Although absolute monarchies empowered and enriched their kingdoms, they were still largely detrimental because of King Louis XIV of France, debt, Frederick the Great’s seizure of Silesia, and the city of St. Petersburg. King Louis XIV of France was an absolute monarch.
In the 1500s and the 1600s the feudal system was beginning to fall. Different countries were trying new different types of governments instead of the dysfunctional feudal system. The feudal system consisted of many different nobles ruling over their own land. It was not a uniform system of ruling over the country. There were small city-states run by a singular ruler.
As a dynastic ruler everything that you done was to increase your land holding and power. Love and war are both different strategies to try and increase both of these. From my study of dynastic rulers I found that love was the more effective way to increase your power and your children’s future power and prospects. During this period some very well-known dynastic rulers like Maximillian I depended on both love and war. In this essay I will argue how making love instead of war was a more effective way of gaining land and power.
The late middle ages saw the rise of a new form of learning throughout all areas of academic life, focused around the re assessment and remodelling of classical sources. The lost languages of Greek and Hebrew were promoted again by many 15th and 16th Century scholars allowing them to study and translate the original texts and make them available for the masses. In previous centuries, the main port of call for biblical scholarship was St Jerome’s Latin Vulgate Bible, yet it was well known that this contained serious inaccuracies, highlighted in 1516 by Erasmus in his Novum Instrumentum, a retranslated bible in Greek that also touched upon the weaknesses of the Vulgate. On the surface, it would seem that the rise of a text critical model of