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Position:Home>History> Joseph II, Austrian Empire? please help?Question: Joseph II, Austrian Empire!? please help!? what were some actions of Joseph II that permitted a diversity of ideas
and cultural practices within the empire!. what were some actions that reflected intolerance!. (can anyone please help me i already have some good info i just need a little moree please help thanks so much_)Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: He abolished the death penalty in 1787 and it remained until 1795 In addition, Joseph abolished serfdom in 1781!. Later, in 1789, he decreed that peasants must be paid in cash payments rather than labor obligations!. These policies were violently rejected by both the nobility and the peasants, since their barter economy lacked money!. The spread of education, the secularization of church lands, the reduction of the religious orders and the clergy in general to complete submission to the lay state, the issue of the Patent of Tolerance (1781) providing limited guarantee of freedom of worship, the promotion of unity by the compulsory use of the German language—everything which from the point of view of 18th century philosophy, the Age of Enlightenment, appeared "reasonable"—were undertaken at once!. He strove for administrative unity with characteristic haste to reach results without preparation!. Hope that helped, Cheers!Www@QuestionHome@Com |