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AQA AS-Level History 7042
1A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204
Topic overviewThe Church, the Seljuk Turks and Byzantium before the CrusadesManzikert and the Call of the First CrusadeThe First Crusade: Motives and CampaignThe Kings of Jerusalem and the Early Crusader StatesThe Knights Templar and the HospitallersThe Crusader States, Byzantium and the Latin WestZengi and the Fall of EdessaThe Second Crusade
1B Spain in the Age of Discovery, 1469–1598
Topic overviewThe Kingdoms of Iberia in 1469Ferdinand, Isabella and the NobilityForeign Policy, Society and the Church under Ferdinand and IsabellaThe Inquisition, the Jews and the Fall of GranadaThe Alpujarras Revolt, the Economy and Overseas ExpansionThe Casa de Contratacion, Navarre and Spain by 1516The Inheritance of Charles VImperial Ideology and Conciliar GovernmentCharles V's Wars, Absences and Religious PolicyThe Conquest of the Americas and the Price RevolutionCharles V's Abdication and Spain by 1556
1C The Tudors: England, 1485–1603
Topic overviewHenry VII's Claim to the ThroneHenry VII's Councils and GovernmentHenry VII's Finances, the Nobility and Foreign PolicyPretenders and Rebellions under Henry VIISociety and the Economy under Henry VIIReligion, Humanism and the Arts under Henry VIIHenry VIII: Character and AimsWolsey, Cromwell and the Break with RomeThe Dissolution, Foreign Policy and Henry VIII's WivesThe Ranks of Tudor SocietyThe Pilgrimage of Grace, Wales and the Henrician EconomyHumanism and Religious Change under Henry VIII
1D Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702
Topic overviewThe Political Nation, Divine Right and James ICourt, Crown Finance and Religious Division, 1603-1629Disputes between Crown and ParliamentArminianism, Puritanism and the Revenues of the Personal RuleThe Personal Rule, the Long Parliament and the Road to WarThe First Civil WarThe Second Civil War and the LevellersThe Army, Parliament and the Regicide
1E Russia in the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment, 1682–1796
Topic overviewRussian Society and Government in 1682The Succession Crisis of 1682 and the StreltsyPeter's Western Interests, the Great Embassy and St PetersburgPeter I's Early Economic, Political and Military ReformsOpposition to Peter's Reforms and the Streltsy RevoltThe Azov Campaigns and the Battle of NarvaThe Poll Tax and State MonopoliesThe Holy Synod, the Senate and Church ReformThe Colleges, Provincial Government and the Table of RanksWesternisation, Opposition and Peter's Legacy by 1725The Great Northern War and Peter's Foreign PolicyThe Service State under Peter the Great
1F Industrialisation and the People: Britain, c1783–1885
Topic overviewThe British Political System in 1783Pitt the Younger and His MinistriesPitt's Financial and Trade ReformsEarly Industrialisation: Textiles, Iron and SteamEnclosure and Agricultural ChangeSocial Classes, Working Conditions and the Old Poor LawThe French Revolution and British RadicalismThe Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the Act of UnionThe Wars with France and the Home FrontLuddism and Britain by 1812Lord Liverpool, the Corn Laws and PeterlooCanning, Wellington and Catholic EmancipationTextiles, Iron, Coal and the Common LandsUrbanisation and Working-Class DiscontentRadicals, Abolitionists and the Rise of MethodismThe Great Reform Act of 1832
1G Challenge and Transformation: Britain, c1851–1964
Topic overviewParliament and the Franchise before 1867The Second Reform Act, Gladstone and DisraeliThe Workshop of the World, Free Trade and Agricultural DepressionClass and Region in Victorian BritainThe Domestic Reforms of Gladstone and DisraeliIreland, the Great Famine and the Land QuestionGladstone's Home Rule Bill and Its OpponentsConservative Dominance before 1905Socialism and the Birth of the Labour PartyNew Liberalism, the People's Budget and the Parliament ActThe Great Depression, Industrial Decline and Tariff ReformNew Unionism, the Great Unrest and Women's SuffrageLiving Standards, Poverty and the Liberal Welfare ReformsThe Home Rule Movement and the Irish Party
1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964
Topic overviewAutocracy and Serfdom in 1855The Emancipation of the Serfs and Alexander II's ReformsReform, Reaction and the Death of Alexander IIPobedonostsev and RussificationLiberals, Populists and the Tsarist PoliceEconomy and Society after EmancipationNicholas II, Bloody Sunday and the Fundamental LawsThe Dumas, Stolypin and Witte's IndustrialisationWorkers, Peasants and the Grain TradeLiberals, Socialist Revolutionaries and MarxistsThe First World War and the February RevolutionLenin's Return and the October RevolutionLenin's Ideology, War Communism and KronstadtStalin's Rise and the Power Struggle
1J The British Empire, c1857–1967
Topic overviewThe Suez Canal and the Occupation of EgyptThe Indian Mutiny and the Government of India ActThe Scramble for Africa and the Chartered CompaniesMissionaries, the Civilising Mission and Party Attitudes to EmpireThe Boers, the Zulu War and Southern AfricaExpansion in Africa and the Government of IndiaLord Cromer and the Veiled Protectorate in EgyptIndirect Rule and the Entente CordialeChamberlain, Tariff Reform and Cecil RhodesThe Justifications for Empire and National EfficiencyExhibitions, Youth Movements and Popular ImperialismThe Boer War and the Union of South Africa
1K The Making of a Superpower: USA, 1865–1975
Topic overviewJohnson, Grant and Radical ReconstructionThe Redeemers and the Gilded Age PresidentsThe Post-Reconstruction South and Jim CrowThe Railroad Boom and Big Business in the Gilded AgeThe Closing of the Frontier and Gilded Age Foreign PolicyThe Populist Movement and the People's PartyProgressivism and Roosevelt's Square DealWilson's New Freedom and America's Economic RiseImmigration, Urban Growth and SegregationAmerican Imperialism and the War of 1898Neutrality and Entry into the First World WarAmerican Society and Industrial Power by 1920
1L The Quest for Political Stability: Germany, 1871–1991
Topic overviewThe States of the German Empire in 1871The Constitution of 1871: Bundesrat and ReichstagBismarck's Domestic PoliciesWilhelm II and WeltpolitikGerman Industrial Power before 1914The Burgertum and the Prestige of the EliteWorkers, Pressure Groups and Germany by 1914War, Revolution and the Weimar Constitution, 1914-1919Reparations, Putsches and the Crisis of 1923Stresemann, the Dawes Plan and Locarno
2A Royal Authority and the Angevin Kings, 1154–1216
2B The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1499
2C The Reformation in Europe, c1500–1564
Topic overviewPapal Supremacy and the Church HierarchySalvation and the Seven SacramentsCorruption, Humanism and Demands for Reform before 1517The Holy Roman Empire and Its ElectorsThe Imperial Diet, the Young Luther and the 95 ThesesThe Disputations, Luther's Theology and the 1520 TreatisesLuther in Print, Excommunication and the Diet of WormsKarlstadt, the Zwickau Prophets and Luther's ReturnZwingli, the Eucharist and the Knights' RevoltThe German Peasants' WarThe Swiss Reformation, the Kappel Wars and MarburgThe Diets of Speyer, the Augsburg Confession and Melanchthon
2D Religious Conflict and the Church in England, c1529–c1570
Topic overviewThe English Church and Its Wealth in 1529Humanism and the Call for Church ReformHenry VIII's Great MatterThe Reformation Parliament and the Break with RomeReformist and Conservative Factions at CourtFaction, Diplomacy and the DissolutionThe Reasons for and Effects of the DissolutionThe Pilgrimage of GraceThe Ten Articles, the Six Articles and the King's BookReligion and War in Henry VIII's Last Years
2E The English Revolution, 1625–1660
Topic overviewJames I's Legacy and Charles I's KingshipCharles I, Buckingham and the Petition of RightThe Personal Rule and Its MinistersLaud's Reforms and Protestant FearsThe Scottish Prayer Book and Thorough in IrelandPuritan Emigration, the National Covenant and the First Bishops' WarThe Bishops' Wars and the Recall of ParliamentCharles I and the Parliamentary Opposition in 1640John Pym and the Long ParliamentDeadlock, the Fall of Strafford and the Irish RebellionThe Attempt on the Five MembersThe Militia Ordinance and the Drift to WarThe Nineteen Propositions and the Outbreak of War
2F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–1715
Topic overviewRichelieu and the Regency of Anne of AustriaMazarin, the Parlement and the FrondesWestphalia and the Treaty of the PyreneesThe Start of Personal Rule and France in 1661Louis XIV's Conception of KingshipThe Royal Council, the Intendants and VersaillesColbert, Mercantilism and the Royal AcademiesThe Huguenots and the Edict of FontainebleauGloire, Foreign Policy Aims and Louvois's ArmyThe Decline of Spain and Louis XIV's Wars to 1684
2G The Birth of the USA, 1760–1801
Topic overviewMercantilism, Salutary Neglect and the Colonies in 1760The Thirteen Colonies and the Impact of the Seven Years WarFrom the Proclamation of 1763 to the Boston Tea PartyThe Intolerable Acts of 1774The First Continental CongressCommon Sense and the Organisation of ResistanceGeneral Gage and the Road to LexingtonThe Declaration of Independence
2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815
Topic overviewLouis XVI and French AbsolutismThe Three Estates and Seigneurial RightsTaxation and the Weaknesses of the Ancien RegimeThe Philosophes and the EnlightenmentThe Financial Crisis of the Ancien RegimeCalonne and the Assembly of NotablesThe Crisis of 1788 and the Estates-GeneralThe Cahiers and the Opening of the Estates-GeneralThe National Assembly and the Fall of the BastilleThe Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the Constitution of 1791The Political Clubs, Varennes and the Fall of the MonarchyThe Founding of the RepublicThe Execution of Louis XVI, the Vendee and the Federalist RevoltThe Levee en Masse and the Coming of the TerrorThe Fall of the Factions and the Great TerrorThermidor and the Dismantling of the TerrorVendemiaire and the Directory
2J America: A Nation Divided, c1845–1877
Topic overviewFederalism and States' RightsThe Northern Economy by 1845Cotton, Plantations and the Southern EconomyThe Missouri Compromise and the Nullification CrisisManifest Destiny and the Compromise of 1850The Fugitive Slave Law, Abolitionism and Pro-Slavery ArgumentsThe Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding KansasThe Formation of the Republican PartyDred Scott, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and Harper's FerryThe Election of 1860, Secession and Fort Sumter
2K International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890–1941
Topic overviewHow Britain and France Made Foreign PolicyThe Economic and Military Strength of the Great PowersThe Scramble for Africa and Great Power RivalryBalkan Nationalism and Austria-HungaryThe Naval Race, the Arms Race and War PlansThe Moroccan CrisesThe Entente Cordiale and the Triple EntenteThe Decline of the Ottoman EmpireThe Bosnian Crisis of 1908The Balkan WarsSarajevo and the Austrian UltimatumMobilisation and the Schlieffen PlanThe July CrisisItaly, the USA and the Widening War
2L Italy and Fascism, c1900–1945
Topic overviewA Young Kingdom: North, South and the RisorgimentoThe Italian Monarchy and the Narrow FranchiseGiolitti and the Gentiloni PactIndustrial Growth, Socialism and Labour UnrestNationalism, Futurism and the Triple AllianceIntervention in 1915 and Italy's War AimsThe Isonzo Front and CaporettoThe Home Front and the Peace SettlementFiume and the Mutilated VictoryPost-War Crisis and Political InstabilityThe Biennio Rosso and the Fascist ResponseThe March on Rome and Mussolini's AppointmentWhy the Elites Accepted MussoliniFascist Ideology, the Ras and the Cult of the DuceThe Grand Council, the Acerbo Law and the Matteotti CrisisBuilding the Dictatorship, 1925-1926Corfu, Fiume and the Consolidation of Power
2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957
Topic overviewThe Liberal Landslide of 1906 and New LiberalismThe Lib-Lab Pact, Tariff Reform and the Edwardian EconomyEdwardian Class, Poverty and the People's BudgetThe Liberal Welfare ReformsThe Parliament Act, Women's Suffrage and Home RuleThe Labour Unrest of 1910 to 1914The Wartime Coalitions and the Liberal SplitThe War Economy, DORA and Post-War IndustryWomen's War Work, the Vote and ConscriptionThe War Poets, the Easter Rising and Irish IndependenceLiberal Decline, the First Labour Government and BaldwinThe Return to Gold, the Coal Crisis and the General StrikeThe Divided Regions, Women and Culture in the 1920sThe Flapper Vote and the 1929 Election
2N Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953
Topic overviewTsarism and the Strain of War by 1917The February RevolutionThe Provisional Government and the April ThesesThe October RevolutionThe First Decrees, the Constituent Assembly and the Leaders of 1917The Cheka and the Rise of One-Party RuleBrest-Litovsk and the Causes of the Civil WarTrotsky and the Building of the Red ArmyWhy the Reds Won the Civil WarBolshevik Social Reform, War Communism and the Red TerrorTambov and KronstadtThe New Economic PolicyForeign Intervention, the Comintern and Soviet DiplomacyLenin's Death, His Testament and the Contenders for PowerPermanent Revolution and Socialism in One CountryThe Defeat of the Oppositions and the Great TurnThe Stalin Cult and Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1920s
2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
Topic overviewThe Collapse of 1918 and the Kiel MutinyThe Weimar Constitution and the Terms of VersaillesThe Military Terms of Versailles and German ReactionsThe Ruhr Occupation and the Hyperinflation of 1923The Spartacist Uprising and the FreikorpsThe Ruhr Crisis, the Courts and the Munich PutschThe Munich Putsch and Weimar's CoalitionsStresemann and the Dawes PlanWeimar Culture: Bauhaus, Art and TheatreHindenburg's Election and the Golden YearsStresemann's Foreign Policy and LocarnoThe Wall Street Crash and the German BanksBruning's Deflation and the Nazi Electoral BreakthroughNazi Propaganda, the SA and Nazi AppealThe Divided Left, Hindenburg and PapenThe Prussian Coup and Hitler's Refusal of OfficeThe Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act and the End of DemocracyGleichschaltung and the One-Party StateThe Night of the Long Knives
2P The Transformation of China, 1936–1997
Topic overviewJapanese Encroachment and the GuomindangThe Encirclement Campaigns, the Long March and Mao's IdeologyYan'an, the Xi'an Incident and the Second United FrontThe Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945The Race for Territory and the Marshall MissionThe Nationalist Position in 1946The Civil War and the Nationalist CollapseChina in 1949 and the Founding of the RepublicThe Mass Campaigns and the Grip on PowerThe Soviet Alliance and the Korean WarThe Hundred Flowers and the First Five Year PlanThe Great Leap Forward and the People's CommunesRectification, the Marriage Law and Social Change
2Q The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945–1980
Topic overviewAmerican Power and Politics in 1945Truman and the Fair DealContainment, NATO and the Korean WarTaft-Hartley, the 1948 Election and McCarthyismCivil Rights in the Truman YearsEisenhower and Modern RepublicanismThe Fall of McCarthy and the Fifties EconomySuburbia, the Highways and the New LookHungary, Rollback and the Berlin CrisisEisenhower, South Vietnam and SEATOBrown, Montgomery and Little RockThe Election of 1960The New Frontier and the Berlin WallCivil Rights under Kennedy and America by 1963
2R The Cold War, c1945–1991
Topic overviewYalta, Potsdam and the Wartime AllianceThe Sovietisation of Eastern EuropeThe Marshall Plan and American Aid to EuropeThe Division of Germany, the Berlin Blockade and NATOJapan, China and NSC-68Korea in 1950 and the UN ResponseMcCarthyism and the Isolation of ChinaNATO, the Warsaw Pact and the First Indochina WarKhrushchev and the Crises of 1956 in Poland and HungaryThe Hungarian Uprising, Peaceful Coexistence and the Paris SummitThe U-2 Affair, the Missile Race and the Space RaceThe Berlin Crisis and the Berlin WallThe Division of Vietnam and the NLFCuba, the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis
2S The Making of Modern Britain, 1951–2007
Topic overviewThe Conservative Prime Ministers, 1951 to 1964The Long Boom and Stop-GoWomen, Youth, Immigration and the Notting Hill RiotsForeign Policy, Suez and Decolonisation, 1951-1964Harold Wilson and the National PlanDevaluation and Labour's Economic Policy, 1965-1969In Place of Strife, Education and Northern IrelandThe Abolition of Hanging and Divorce ReformThe Media, the Permissive Society and Race in the 1960sVietnam, the EEC Veto and the Atlantic AllianceHeath, the 1970 Election and Selsdon ParkThe Industrial Relations Act and the 1972 StrikeThe Oil Crisis and the Second Miners' StrikeNorthern Ireland from Bloody Sunday to SunningdaleThe Social Contract, the IMF Crisis and the Winter of DiscontentFeminism, Equality Legislation and Immigration in the 1970sPunk and the New Politics of the 1970sBritain's Entry into the EEC and the 1975 ReferendumThe Special Relationship and Detente in the 1970s
2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000
Topic overviewStalin's Death and the System He LeftKhrushchev's Rise and the Anti-Party GroupThe Secret Speech and De-StalinisationThe Sovnarkhozy, Housing and the ThawThe Virgin Lands Scheme and Agricultural FailureThe Thaw, China and Khrushchev's Foreign PolicyThe Fall of KhrushchevBrezhnev and His Leading ColleaguesThe Kosygin Reforms and Economic StagnationDetente, Afghanistan and the Second Cold WarDissidents and Nationalist Unrest under BrezhnevAndropov, Chernenko and the Rise of GorbachevGorbachev's Aims and PerestroikaGlasnost, Afghanistan and the End of the Cold WarChernobyl, Economic Restructuring and DemocratisationThe Opposition to GorbachevThe August Coup and the End of the USSRYeltsin and Shock TherapyPutin's Rise and the Second Chechen War
2F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–1715
- 10 subtopics
- 55 things to know
- Component 2
What 2F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–1715 covers
Option 2F is a depth study of Louis XIV, taken as one of the Component 2 choices. It examines the building of absolutism at home, the wars that carried it into Europe, and the challenges of the reign's later years.
Where it is assessed
Component 2
A depth study, of which a student sits one.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 10 subtopics
Each one has its own page. AQA AS History students sit this topic in the first year.
- Richelieu and the Regency of Anne of AustriaRecall questions on Richelieu's ministry, the Peace of Alais of 1629, his intervention in the Thirty Years War, the death of Louis XIII and how Anne of Austria secured full regency powers.Open →
- Mazarin, the Parlement and the FrondesRecall questions on Mazarin's origins and unpopularity, the Parlement of Paris and its hold over royal edicts, the Fronde of the Parlement and the Fronde of the Princes, Condé, and why the Frondes failed.Open →
- Westphalia and the Treaty of the PyreneesRecall questions on the Treaties of Westphalia and France's gains, the continuing war with Spain, the Treaty of the Pyrenees and the marriage and dowry it arranged, and France's position in Europe by 1661.Open →
- The Start of Personal Rule and France in 1661Recall questions on Mazarin's death and Louis XIV's decision to rule personally, the monarchy and Parlement after the Frondes, the taille and tax farming, the two nobilities, the peasantry and France's population.Open →
- Louis XIV's Conception of KingshipRecall questions on his understanding of divine right, the traits that shaped his rule and his pursuit of authority and prestige.Open →
- The Royal Council, the Intendants and VersaillesRecall questions on how Louis reshaped his council, the intendants' legal, financial and judicial work, the curbing of the parlements, and Versailles as a gilded cage, a stage for ritual and a tool of propaganda.Open →
- Colbert, Mercantilism and the Royal AcademiesRecall questions on the royal academies and patronage of the arts, Colbert's tax reforms, the taille and gabelle, mercantilism and the manufactures royales, the Canal du Midi, the navy, colonies and trading companies.Open →
- The Huguenots and the Edict of FontainebleauRecall questions on the restrictions placed on Protestants before 1685, what the Edict of Fontainebleau decreed, why Louis revoked the Edict of Nantes, and the emigration and economic and diplomatic damage that followed.Open →
- Gloire, Foreign Policy Aims and Louvois's ArmyRecall questions on gloire, defensible frontiers and dynastic claims as Louis XIV's aims, the standing army and Military Academy, and Louvois's reforms of uniform, supply, promotion and care for wounded soldiers.Open →
- The Decline of Spain and Louis XIV's Wars to 1684Recall questions on Spain's decline, the War of Devolution and Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, the Triple Alliance and Treaty of Dover, the Franco-Dutch War and William III, Nijmegen, the Reunions and the Truce of Ratisbon.Open →
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Why was Richelieu's foreign policy during the Thirty Years' War considered paradoxical for Catholic France?
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Who served as regent for Louis XIV during his minority, and for what period?
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What was Mazarin's national origin, and who had trained him in statecraft?
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What triggered the Fronde of the Parlement (1648-1649)?
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What agreement temporarily ended the Fronde of the Parlement in March 1649?
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What major European conflict did the Treaties of Westphalia end in 1648, and what was the impact on the Habsburgs?
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How did Spain's failure regarding Maria Theresa's dowry later benefit Louis XIV?
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Describe the economic condition of France in 1661.
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How did Louis XIV aim to establish unchallenged royal authority?
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What was Louis XIV's aim regarding French prestige and glory?
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What was Louis XIV's aim concerning French territory?
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What were intendants in Louis XIV's France?
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What was one function of the intendants regarding royal legislation?
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How did Louis XIV reduce the political power of the parlements?
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What was the purpose of Louis XIV's patronage of the Académie Française?
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What was the taille?
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Where did French colonisation expand in North America under Louis XIV?
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What did the Edict of Fontainebleau order regarding Protestant churches?
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What did the Edict of Fontainebleau require regarding children?
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What types of skilled people did France lose due to Huguenot emigration?
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Why did Louis XIV seek to secure defensible frontiers for France?
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What was Louis XIV's ultimate ambition regarding France's position in Europe from 1661?
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How large was the French standing army in 1661, and what was its significance?
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How did prolonged warfare contribute to Spanish military decline after 1659?
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What military commitment did Charles II of England make in the secret Treaty of Dover (1670)?
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How did the Franco-Dutch War expand beyond its original combatants?
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How did the system of intendants strengthen royal government under Louis XIV?
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Why did Louis XIV face little institutional opposition to his authority in the later reign?
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What weakness resulted from the absence of formal consultation mechanisms in Louis XIV's government?
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What problem affected French financial management after 1683?
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How did the crown use the sale of offices as a wartime financial expedient?
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Besides selling offices and manipulating currency, what other financial expedients did the crown resort to?
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How did the Four Gallican Articles limit papal power within France?
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What was the Camisard revolt and when did it occur?
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How did regional diversity complicate royal administration in France?
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What event in 1688 brought William of Orange to the English throne and created a Dutch-English alliance against France?
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Which two major Protestant powers were united under William of Orange's leadership after 1688?
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What was the League of Augsburg?
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In which four main regions were the major land campaigns of the Nine Years War fought?
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What type of military actions characterised King William's War in North America?
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What territories did Louis XIV return under the Peace of Ryswick?
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What was Louis XIV's primary objective regarding the Spanish Succession?
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What did France aim to prevent regarding Spanish territories after Charles II's death?
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What action by Louis XIV in 1701 triggered the start of the War of the Spanish Succession?
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What was the outcome of the Battle of Ramillies in 1706?
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What natural disaster struck France in 1709 and how did it affect the war effort?
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What significant territorial gain did the English make in Acadia in 1710?
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In what year was the Treaty of Utrecht signed, and what war did it end?
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Which North American territories did France cede to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht?
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What was the succession problem facing France in 1715?
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Why did Louis XIV patronise the Académie Française and the Academy of Sciences?
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Why did Spanish military power decline after 1659?
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What did the Four Gallican Articles assert, and why did Louis XIV clash with the Papacy?
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Where was the Nine Years War fought, on land and at sea?
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Commonly confused
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Intendant vs Parlement
Intendant: crown-appointed provincial official overseeing administration and finance. Parlement: high court that registered and remonstrated against royal legislation.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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Who served as chief minister to Louis XIII from 1624 until 1642, and what were his main achievements in centralising royal power?
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Cardinal Richelieu served as chief minister, centralising royal authority and reducing the political power of the nobility and Huguenots.
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What agreement in 1629 suppressed Huguenot political privileges while maintaining their religious freedoms?
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The Peace of Alais (1629).
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How did Richelieu extend royal control into the provinces?
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He established the intendant system, which bypassed traditional local authorities and allowed direct royal administration in the provinces.
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Why was Richelieu's foreign policy during the Thirty Years' War considered paradoxical for Catholic France?
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Despite France being Catholic, Richelieu pursued an anti-Habsburg policy by allying with Protestant powers to weaken Habsburg dominance.
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When did Louis XIII die, and how old was his successor Louis XIV at the time?
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Louis XIII died in May 1643, leaving the throne to his four-year-old son Louis XIV.
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Why was a Regency established following Louis XIII's death?
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Because Louis XIV was a minor (only four years old) and unable to rule independently.
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2F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–1715 revision questions
- Is 2F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–1715 examined at AS in AQA History?
- Yes. It sits in Component 2, which you take in the first year, so it is on the AS paper as well as counting towards the full A level.
- What does 2F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–1715 cover in AQA AS-Level History?
- 10 subtopics: richelieu and the regency of anne of austria, mazarin, the parlement and the frondes, westphalia and the treaty of the pyrenees, the start of personal rule and france in 1661, louis xiv's conception of kingship, the royal council, the intendants and versailles, colbert, mercantilism and the royal academies, the huguenots and the edict of fontainebleau, gloire, foreign policy aims and louvois's army and the decline of spain and louis xiv's wars to 1684. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is 2F The Sun King: Louis XIV, France and Europe, 1643–1715 organised?
- By the AQA 7042 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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