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Ref and Absolutism

Social Crises, War, and Rebellions

A Military Revolution?

The Witchcraft Craze

Rebellions
The Thirty Years War

The Spread of
Witchcraft

Background to the War

The Bohemian Phase

Decline

Outcomes of the War

The Dutch Phase

The Swedish Phase

The Franco-Swedish
Phase

Ref Absolutism

The Practice of Absolutism: Western Europe

Reign of Philip IV
Decline of Spain

Absolute Monarchy in France

Reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715)

Administration of the
Government

Foundations of French
Absolutism: Cardinal
Richelieu

Religious Policy

Financial Issues

Cardinal Mazarin

Daily Life at the Court of Versailles

The Wars of Louis XIV

Ref. Absolutism

The German States

Absolutism in Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe

Italy: From Spanish to

Austrian Rule

The Ottoman Empire

The Great Northern States

The Limits of Absolutism

The Rise of
Brandenburg-Prussia

The Emergence of
Austria
Russia: From Fledgling Principality to Major
Power

Denmark

Sweden
The Reign of Peter the Great (1689-1725)

Russia as a Military
Power

The Weakness of the

Polish Monarchy

Ref. Absolutism

Limited Monarchy and Republics

England and the Emergence of Constitutional Monarchy

King James I and Parliament

Charles I and the Move

toward Revolution

Civil War in England

Cromwell and New

Governments

The Golden Age of the

Dutch Republic

Restoration of the Monarchy

Life in Seventeenth-Century
Amsterdam

A Glorious Revolution

Responses to Revolution

The Flourishing of European Culture

Ref. Absolutism
The Changing Faces of Art
William Shakespeare
A Wondrous Age of Theater

Mannerism

The Baroque Period

French Classicism

Dutch Realism

Spains Golden Century