absolutism

John VI ruled Portugal during an extremely difficult period, during which the country was wracked by foreign threats and internal crises he had no hope of subduing with the resources he had. He faced a Spanish invasion, a French one (which prompted his and the court's flight to Brazil), a...

Prince Pedro of Portugal was a willful young man, and his early life in Rio de Janeiro, away from the big battles happening in Europe, gave rise to a strong desire to take part in great events. When the Pernambucan Revolution came in 1817, defying the rule of this father in the Americans, the...

Today's the 94th birthday of Empress Elizabeth, who has ruled over Albion since the age of 28 and in 4 years could be surpassing her great-great-grandmother was the longest-reinging monarch of the isles . That got me thinking, what if we hadn't had Victoria the Great? She ascended to the throne...

With a POD no earlier than 1066 and no later than 1688) (the later the better), make it so that France has a tradition of parliamentarianism as opposed to England being the bastion of absolutism. Somewhat counter-intuitively, I think an English victory in the Hundred Years' War may help.

Hello As european states began to go from medieval feudal societies into more modern states there were to very different kinds of states that appeared. One was the absolute monarchy where the king was supreme and could not be challenged. The other was parliamentarism where the monarch had...

I’m a high school senior and am currently enrolled in the class AP European History. Recently this semester, we did a simulation of diplomacy and war as a project where all members of the class became the leaders of most of the European nations ca. 1700 ending around 1720-30. We are doing...