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Long-Term Causes 

  • Decrease use of the feudal system

  • Cities rising

  • Size of Middle class increasing 

  • Decrease in the church's power 

 

Immediate Causes

  • Holy wars

  • Teritory wars

  • Size of armies increasing which causes a rise in taxes

  • Peasants and nobles rebel

 

 

European Monarchs Claim Divie Right To 

Rule Absolutely

Immediate Effects

  • Rules are placed on religion and society an example of this was the treaty of Augsburg

  • Bigger courts 

  • Bigger building projects 

  • Government steps in on more things now

  • Decrease in nobility and legistlative power

 

Long-Term Effects

  • French Revolution 

  • Western Europe effects Russia 

  • Influence current U.S. deocracy 

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