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2. What was a success of Louis in maintaining absolute authority

  • there was no challenge to authority
  • Relations with the pope
  • Madame de Maintenon's infuence
  • had to take in moral teachings from church
  • only a minority of nobles could afford to live at versailles

3. Why did Louis become involved in the War of Spanish Succession?

  • Because Carlos II bequested Louis's grandson, Philippe
  • He wanted to explot the situation following the dutch war
  • Because he believed his wife had rights to the Spanish throne
  • Because he thought he could become King of Spain
  • Because the dutch didn't support Louis during the war of devolution

4. Which one of these was NOT an objective of Louis's within his foreign policy?

  • to strengthen frontiers
  • to gain financially
  • To start a war on every country in Europe
  • To gain the title 'the most christian king in europe'
  • Pursuit of glory

5. Louis introduced new forms of taxation because the old was causing social tension

  • True
  • False

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Zofia de Rooij

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A good quiz to remind someone about what Louis XIV really wnated and what happened

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