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Form an international perspective. The Peace of Westphalia(1648) marked
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The emergence of France as the dominant power in Europe
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The uncertainties caused by European colonization in the Americas and religious and political warefare at home all result in
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More centralized forms of government.
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The Thirty Years' War began when
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A Catholic prince became the ruler of a Protestant territorry
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The primary problem caused by the Prince Revolution of the late sixteenth century was
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Inflation
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Peter Paul Rubens stressed _______ of the Baroque style
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Extravagance
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The Thirty Years' War is best described as
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A European-wide struggle for political dominance
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Much of the literature and art from 1550-1660 sought to
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Not (recreate classical forms of drama and art)
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In economic terms, the early colonization of Americas had the most profound impact on
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The Spanish
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Early modern crisis of religious and political authority led many scholars and authors to
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Not (become more religiously devout)
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The social and political crises of the English Cival War
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Swelled the ranks of unfree labor in British colonies in America
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One of the factors that contributed to the long-term hostillities between England and Spain was
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The fact that Spain secretly supported the Irish rebellion against England that began in 1565
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What focuses Charles I to summon a new parliment, after he had ruled without one for eleven years
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An invasion force from Scotland
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The primary goal of Cardinal Richelieu's government was
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To increase and centralize power over France
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During the revolt of the Netherlands, Protestant forces of William of Orange
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Not Were Catholic
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Most French Protestants were
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Calvinists
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European contact with the Americas ultimately resulted in a decline of the pre-Columbia population there of
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90%
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The main cause of immigration from England to its colonies was
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A desire to live in a colony that did not rely on slave labor
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Montaigne's essays, Shakespeare's plays and Rembrant's portraits all explore
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The search for the meaning of human existence
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The relatively few number of (usually male) settlers to Spanish territories in the Americas resulted in
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Spanish cultural assimilation to indigenous customs
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The main theme of Montaige's Essay was
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A search skepticism about all human knowledge
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Both Protestants and Chaholics supported the increasingly powerful government of their time by
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Participating in an early modern "witch craze"
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Economic stagnation in most of Europe after 1600 was caused by
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Not (a rapidly declining population and a halt in the influx of silver from the Americas)
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More than any other commodity, slave trade was driven by the European appetite for
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Sugar
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Using the Portuguese "fort and factory" model of colonial expansion, ___________ became the most prosperous commercial empire of the seventeenth century
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Not France
