Reading outline week 2

Week S-2 Reading Notes

Social Crisis, War, and Revolution (434-447)

Economic and Social Crisis

Inflation: ___________________________________________________________
Explain the causes for inflation in Europe in the 1600’s

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The Witchcraft Trials

Witchcraft: _________________________________________________________

What were the characteristics of the majority of those accused of witchcraft?

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The Thirty Years’ War

Holy Roman Empire: __________________________________________________

Bohemia: ___________________________________________________________
How did the Peace of Westphalia impact the Holy Roman Empire?

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Revolutions in England

James I: ____________________________________________________________

Divine Right of Kings: __________________________________________________

Puritans: ____________________________________________________________

Charles I: ____________________________________________________________

Cavaliers: ____________________________________________________________

Roundheads: _________________________________________________________

Oliver Cromwell: ______________________________________________________

Commonwealth: ______________________________________________________

James II: _____________________________________________________________

Trace the Sequences that lead to the English Bill of Rights. _____________________

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Response to Crisis: Absolutism

France under Louis XIV

Absolutism: ___________________________________________________________

Louis XIV: _____________________________________________________________

Cardinal Richelieu: _____________________________________________________

What steps did Louis XIV take to maintain absolute power? ____________________

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Focus on Everyday Life pp442 – 443

How did Louis XIV attempt to control the life of his nobles? _____________________

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Why did Louis like the gambling that went on at Versailles? _____________________

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Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe

Frederick William the Great Elector: ________________________________________

Why was the Austrian Monarchy unable to create a highly centralized, absolutist state?

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Russia Under Peter the Great

Ivan IV: ______________________________________________________________

Czar: _________________________________________________________________

Boyars: _______________________________________________________________________

Michael Romanov: ______________________________________________________________

Peter the Great: ________________________________________________________________

St. Petersburg: _________________________________________________________________

Why was it so important that Peter the Great have a seaport on the Baltic? ________________

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