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Austria did not become absolutist because
Catholic Church and nobility would not give up power and different ethnicities were hard to unite
Thirty years war
France involved on the Protestant side
Divine right of kings
God given ability to rule not bound
Cardinal Richelieu
King Louis XIII's person thingy
Cardinal Mazarin
King Louis XIV's person thingy
Great Northern war
Russia acquired warm water sea ports
Joseph II
Tried to make Austria absolutist
Peter I
Wanted Russia to adopt western ways
Catherine II
continued Peter's westernization in Russia
Absolutism
increased royal power with no checks
Hohenzollern family
led the German state to prominence
Ivan
named himself Czar
Romanov family
ruled Russia 300 years
Time of Troubles
violent period after Ivan IV's death