Mercantilism, Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and the War of Spanish Succession

     "What were the key ideas of mercantilism?"        

The key ideas of mercantilism were basically the simple ideas of most board games. One loses, and the other wins. This was perhaps the most revealing trait of mercantilism. It was the opposite of the free-market economy. In a free market economy you are free to buy and sell as you see fit. In mercantilism this is all regulated by the government.

Under mercantilism, governments would try to limit who you would buy from and who you would sell to. We saw governments regulating imports and exports and also telling people what they could and couldn't sell. These were the key ideas of mercantilism.




"How was the revocation of the Edict of Nantes justified in the document you read?"


In the document I read, they justified the revocation in some quite intriguing ways. One of these points in the document I read said something along the lines of that they should obliterate the confusion and evils that the progression of Protestant religion had caused to occur in the kingdom.

The document noted that many of the Protestants had converted to Catholicism, so they thought that they didn't really have any reason to keep the Edict of Nantes around. These are the main ways that the revocation was justified.



"What was at stake in the War of Spanish Succession?"


As you can probably guess the succession to the Spanish crown was at stake. Leopold I and Louis XIV were the two main contending parties in trying to get their "chosen" heir on the throne. The concern was that if a central power gained control of Spain, they would have far two much power in the hands of that monarch. In the end, the Spanish provinces were split up to make peace after the thirteen years of fighting.

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