Essential Questions:
1) Which Western countries most clearly illustrate the new patterns of political organization?
2) What social and economic factors limited absolute monarchs?
3) How and why did the rulers of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, each in a different social environment, manage to build powerful absolute monarchies that proved more durable than that of Louis XIV?
1) Which Western countries most clearly illustrate the new patterns of political organization?
2) What social and economic factors limited absolute monarchs?
3) How and why did the rulers of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, each in a different social environment, manage to build powerful absolute monarchies that proved more durable than that of Louis XIV?