Chapter 10: Renaissance and
Discovery
Section 3: Revival of Monarchy In
Northern Europe
By Dallin F. Hardy
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Feudal Monarchy
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High Middle Ages
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Representative Assemblies
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Parliament
Estates General
Cortes
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Alliance of King & Town
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Results
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Led to
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Decline of Feudalism
Rise of sovereign states
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Sovereign State
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Nation ruled
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Monarchs
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Directly by a monarch
Acted independently
Allowed
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Nation building
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Defenders of Sovereign States
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Marsilius of Padua
Machiavelli
Jean Bodin
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15th-century Military
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Directed by
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Monarch
Standing armies
Very expensive
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Royal Revenue
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Taxes
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Excluding Nobility
Loans
Inflation
France
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Charles VII
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Ruled 1422-1461
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Louis XI
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Ruled 1461-1483
Accomplishments
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Expanded
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Created
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National postal system
Established
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Trade and industry
Silk industry
Conquered
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Burgundy
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French Nation Building
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Two cornerstones
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Defeat of
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England
Burgundy
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Burgundian Wars
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1474-1477
Burgundy vs. France
Fought over
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French unification
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Results of Burgundian Wars
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French victory
Burgundy
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Divided by
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France
Holy Roman Empire
Spain
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Ferdinand II
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Reigned 1479-1516
King of Aragon
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Isabella
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Reigned 1474-1504
Queen of Castile
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Marriage of Isabella & Ferdinand
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1469
Protested by
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France
Portugal
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Accomplishments of Ferdinand & Isabella
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Secured borders
Ventured abroad militarily
Christianized Spain
Subdued their realms
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Conquest of the Moors
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1482-1492
Granada
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Christianization of Spain
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Non-Christian peoples
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Driven into exile
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Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros
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Led
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Christianization of Spain
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Spanish Inquisition
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Tribunal to maintain
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Catholic orthodoxy
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Joanna The “Mad”
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Mother of
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Charles I
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Charles I
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Reigned 1516-1556
First King of Spain
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Charles V
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Reigned 1519-1556
Holy Roman Emperor
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Catherine of Aragon
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1509
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Married
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Henry VIII
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Christopher Columbus
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1492
Discovered
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New World
England
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Richard II
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Reigned 1377-1399
Deposed by
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Henry IV
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Wars of the Roses
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1455-1485
House of Lancaster vs.
House of York
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Henry VI
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Reigned 1422-1461
House of Lancaster
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Battle of Tewkesbury
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1471
Lancaster vs. York
Results
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York victory
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Edward IV
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Reigned 1461-1483
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Edward V
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Reigned 1483
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Princes in the Tower
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Edward V & Richard
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Richard III
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Reigned 1483-1485
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Battle of Bosworth Field
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1485
Lancaster vs. York
Results
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Lancastrian Victory
Death of
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Ended
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Richard III
War of the Roses
Henry VII
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Became king
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Henry VII
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Reigned 1485-1509
Established
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Tudor Dynasty
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Marriage of the Roses
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1486
Henry VII & Elizabeth
United
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Lancaster
York
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Administration of Henry VII
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Created
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Court of the Star Chamber
Governed
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Without reliance on
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Parliament
Holy Roman Empire
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Germany
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15th Century
Resisted
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National
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Consolidation
Unity
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Charles IV
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Reigned 1346-1378
Holy Roman Emperor
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Golden Bull
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1356
Electoral college
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Administrative body
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Reichstag
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National assembly
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Fractionalized Germany
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16th Century
Became susceptible to
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Protestant Reformation