Absolutism Was Difficult for the Habsburgs to Achieve in the Holy

question 40

Multiple Choice

Absolutism was difficult for the Habsburgs to achieve in the Holy Roman Empire because:

• A)the Habsburgs produced a series of ill and weakened monarchs in the seventeenth century.
• B)a powerful middle-class resistance to absolutism emerged in the Holy Roman Empire.
• C)controlling the Austrian colonies abroad took all the military power the Habsburg had,so they could not fulfill their ambitions of absolutism in the Holy Roman Empire.
• D)the Holy Roman Empire was made up of many individual states that ruled in their own interests.
• E)the Austrian Hapsburgs were not able to harness propaganda to their advantage enough to convince the nobles of the Holy Roman Empire to accept absolutist rule.

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