Enlightened Monarchs: Crash Course European History #19
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Funak
Worth mentioning that absolute monarchs were not exactly ruling alone, then just like now you needed to control and appease the keys to power else the keys would find someone else to appease them and you would lose your power. It's completely possible that most of these great rulers like Frederick and Catherine were fully on board with the enlightenment ideas but really the best thing they could do about it was to lead by example and then hope the aristocracy(whom's support they needed) would follow suit.
The struggle between rulers and different sets of keys is pretty much the story of all civilization, from dictatorships to democracies. No man rules alone.
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Worth mentioning that absolute monarchs were not exactly ruling alone, then just like now you needed to control and appease the keys to power else the keys would find someone else to appease them and you would lose your power. It's completely possible that most of these great rulers like Frederick and Catherine were fully on board with the enlightenment ideas but really the best thing they could do about it was to lead by example and then hope the aristocracy(whom's support they needed) would follow suit.
The struggle between rulers and different sets of keys is pretty much the story of all civilization, from dictatorships to democracies. No man rules alone.
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david
This episode was an interesting, uplifting break between war and revolution - some movement to democracy and 'civilisation' although the gap between rich and poor was widening (can't wait for the French Revolution. Here in Britain, more internal conflict (Jacobites, battles around the world (and slavery, under monarchs - Anne, George's I to III - who were pretty pathetic compared to some in continental Europe (notably female, Catherine the Great and Maria Theresa.
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This episode was an interesting, uplifting break between war and revolution - some movement to democracy and 'civilisation' although the gap between rich and poor was widening (can't wait for the French Revolution. Here in Britain, more internal conflict (Jacobites, battles around the world (and slavery, under monarchs - Anne, George's I to III - who were pretty pathetic compared to some in continental Europe (notably female, Catherine the Great and Maria Theresa.
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mdr893
I kinda think people are quite often to misunderstood Aristocracy with Monarchy. While in practice the two are almost inseparable, conceptually speaking they are not the same thing. To put it simply, the original concept of Aristocracy would be that the best people are the one who rule the country; while Monarchy is a country that govern by a royal family (which is not always the best of the citizen.
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I kinda think people are quite often to misunderstood Aristocracy with Monarchy. While in practice the two are almost inseparable, conceptually speaking they are not the same thing. To put it simply, the original concept of Aristocracy would be that the best people are the one who rule the country; while Monarchy is a country that govern by a royal family (which is not always the best of the citizen.
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Darya
11: 13 This is particularly interesting to me because in IB history of the Americas we are taught the opposite. As I learned maybe wrongly, that the Bourbon reforms blocked and took away the creole or people of Spanish descent positions in the Spanish colonies clergy, political offices, and army.
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11: 13 This is particularly interesting to me because in IB history of the Americas we are taught the opposite. As I learned maybe wrongly, that the Bourbon reforms blocked and took away the creole or people of Spanish descent positions in the Spanish colonies clergy, political offices, and army.
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Kaloyan
Hi, John, French speaker here. I appreciate your efforts, but please stop butchering French words. At some point when you were saying -parlement- I was wondering what you meant. The L is similar to the one in -Lily- or, well, -similar-
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Hi, John, French speaker here. I appreciate your efforts, but please stop butchering French words. At some point when you were saying -parlement- I was wondering what you meant. The L is similar to the one in -Lily- or, well, -similar-
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Youssef
hey you forgot, it wasn't ruled with iron hand (at least I and another historian named John Green -The Great-) believe that it was TOPAZ hand! (y know mohs scale) in fact better carbonado hand LoL!
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hey you forgot, it wasn't ruled with iron hand (at least I and another historian named John Green -The Great-) believe that it was TOPAZ hand! (y know mohs scale) in fact better carbonado hand LoL!
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education
Monarchs stay in power by empowering their nobility, so it's not like they had a choice - socialism or full blown liberalism would be suicidal.
If they wanted to keep their power, that is.
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Monarchs stay in power by empowering their nobility, so it's not like they had a choice - socialism or full blown liberalism would be suicidal.
If they wanted to keep their power, that is.
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bradwatson7324
It's time to do away with government (of all kinds) altogether. Every man and woman are equals; no one has the right to rule over anyone else. Voluntarianism is true enlightenment.
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It's time to do away with government (of all kinds) altogether. Every man and woman are equals; no one has the right to rule over anyone else. Voluntarianism is true enlightenment.
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CybershamanX
(1: 05) Hmmm. Interesting list of criticisms. It in no way parallels what is happening in today's world whatsoever. Nope. Not at all. ;)
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(1: 05) Hmmm. Interesting list of criticisms. It in no way parallels what is happening in today's world whatsoever. Nope. Not at all. ;)
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