[War and Empire]
  
Before class 
  
      * Read Palmer, 241-263, 308-312, 316-323
  
      * Key terms: 
  			
	South Sea Company			War of the Austrian Succession
	Cardinal Fleury				Frederick II
	House of Commons			Diplomatic Revolution of 1756
	Whigs					East India Companies
	George I				William Pitt
	Robert Walpole				Seven Years’ War
	taille					French and Indian Wars
	Turgot					Catherine the Great
	corvee					Eastern question
	partitions of Poland

      * Key Concept: Enlightened Despotism

      * Key questions

    
1. What were the "parallel" developments taking place in eighteenth-century
   France and Britain?

2. What role did the nobility play in eighteenth-century France?

3. Analyze the major political changes in Britain in the first half of the eighteenth century.  	

4. What characteristics distinguished the enlightened despots from earlier monarchs?  Assess 
the successes and failures of enlightened despotism in (a) France, (b) Austria, (c) Prussia, 
and (d) Russia.

5. What principal issues were involved in both the War of the Austrian Succession and the 
Seven Years' War? 

6. How did warfare in the eighteenth century compare to earlier wars?

7. "For most of the eighteenth century, war was between governments, not between whole 
peoples.  It was fought for power, prestige, or calculated practical interests, not for 
ideologies, moral principles, world conquest, national survival, or ways of life."  Comment. 

 
 

[War and Empire]

In class 

      * Outline

		1. Western Europe
		
		2. Central and Eastern Europe
		
		3. Eighteenth-century wars as linked to imperialism

      * Key terms

	Louis XV
	oligarchy
	authoritarianism
	Peter the Great 
	Catherine the Great
	westernization
	mercantilist empires 
	War of Spanish Succession, 1701-13
	asiento
	War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48
	Frederick the Great
	Seven Years' War, 1756-63

      * Key question

Why did the shift in power in eighteenth century Europe take place? 

      * Key concepts
  
Difference between nature of warfare in eighteenth century and
earlier eras 
Changing nature of empire

      * Key quotation 

  
It is in my person alone that the sovereign power resides . . . and the rights and interests of the 
nation are necessarily joined with mine and rest only in my hands.

						Louis XV