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Louis XIV chose to live the social aspect of life. And pass the job of being ruler onto the shoulders of his colleagues, like Jean Baptiste Colbert, but not all the time like in instances of war. On the other hand we have the Peter the Great. Modern Russia started with the rule of the Czar. He realized that Russia should be westernized to ensure its independence. Already fascinating by mechanical inventions, he studied government and business s of the West. The Sun King, as he liked to be called because of his performance in one of his plays. The sun was associated with Apollo, god of peace and arts, and was also the heavenly body, which gave life to all things, regulating everything as it rose and set. The first twenty years of the king's personal reign were the most brilliant. With his minister Colbert, he carried out the administrative and financial reorganization of the kingdom, as well as the development of trade and manufacturing. With the Marquis de Lou