Maria Theresa's Greatest Achievements

Maria Theresa's Kingdom

    Maria Theresa made so many great achievements in her life time. Not only was she archduchess of Austria, but also Queen of Bohemia and Hungary. For her, people often said, "with great power becomes great responsibility." Maria did many things and can up with ideas to expanded her kingdom.
Her achievements are:
-Provided Education for Serfs.
-Unification of the currency, measures, weights, customs, and taxes.
-Created unified judicial code that we called Theresian and was foundation for many today's Central European laws.
-Created professional army by maintaining seven year service for every male serf in the kingdom.
-Maria made the German language was the only acceptable language to communicate in.
-She had the ability to select gifted men to be her advisers. This was one of her most impressive abilities as a ruler.
-Maria decreased the power of the nobility. 
-The reformation that she lead for Austria was well structured.
-She limited the power of labor that nobles would force peasants to do.
-The empress had a long reign which spanned forty years.
    Maria Theresa was kind-heart, courageous, and generous. She respected the rights of others and expected others to respect her rights. Throughout the empire, the peasants were obligated to pay monetary and work dues to their lords. The empress had a long reign which spanned forty years. She died on November 29, 1780.