AP Euro Review: 17 Century

Thirty Years War

• Bohemian Phase (Catholic Ferdinand II inherited = Defenestration of Prague = protestant Frederick II loses = catholic mandate and future rebellions)
• Danish Phase (Ferdinand II tries to stop revolts = Wallentein defeated protestants in north = Edict of Restitution = fear = fired Wallenstein)
• Swedish Phase (France & Sweeden join to stop Hapsburgs = Sweden's Adolphus invaded HRE = Wallensteign rehired = defeat of Sweden = Wallensteing assassinated)
• French Phase = (France & Sweden change roles = most destructive phase)

English Civil War

• Spark = Charles attempts to arrest parliament members
• Cavaliers vs. Roundheads
• New Model Army & Cromwell = Restoration of limited monarchy and Puritan theocracy
• Rump Parliament

Peace of Westphalia

Fronde

Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg

• King of Prussia
• Hohenzollern
• The Great Elector = military, calvisnim, trade/mercantillism

Anglo-Dutch Wars

Louis XIV

• Sun King = I Am The State
• Colbert = Mercantillism
• Treaty of Versailles
• War of Spanish Succession = Treaty of Utrecht
• Jansenists
• Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

The Restoration

Glorious Revolution

• JCCCJ
• Mary & William of Orange = English Bill of Rights & Toleration Act

Peter the Great of Russia

Government

• Bakewell: Animal Husbandry
• Tull: Seed Drill
• Townsend: Crop Rotation
• Enclosure Movement

Colbert's economic reforms

• Expanded manufacturing (built canals, reduced tax collectors, created French trading companies, funded companies)
• Protected industries (tariffs)
• Recognized colonies (access to raw materials, encouraged migration to Canada)

Cossack revolt in Russia

Society &

Economy

Huguenot Revolt in France

Social Contract Theory

Hobbes, Leviathan

Test Act

• Parliament excluded all Catholics from public office
• Reaction against Treaty of Dover & Declaration of Indulgence

Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

• Reaction against the Jansenists (op. of Jesuit theology)
• Ordered the destruction of churches, closed schools, Catholic baptism of Huguenots, etc.

Locke, Two Treaties on Government

• Natural Rights: Life, Liberty, & Property
• Tabula Rasa
• Free Will

James II

Religion &

Philosophy

Sir Francis Bacon

Descartes

Tull

Newton, Principia Mathematica

• Law of Universal Gravitation
• Described the universe as a giant clock

Science &

Technology

17 Century

Cervantes, Don Quixote

Flourishing of the French Theater

Golden Age of Dutch Culture

Construction of Baroque palaces & remodeling of capital cities in Eastern Europe

Bach

Enlightenment Begins

Arts & Letters

Conflict over seas & trade routes

Rebellion of French nobles

Westernization

Richelieu

Ottoman Siege of Vienna

• Ruler under Louis XIII
• Increased power of the Bourbon family
• Against huguenots and nobles = Fronde

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English Poor Law

Height of Mercantilism

Height of Dutch Commercial Activity

British East India Company

Agricultural Revolution

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Free groups and outlaw armies originally comprising of runaway peasants

Last Catholic Monarch

• Absolute government
• Social contract

French Calvinists

Agreement by which people create a government

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I think therefore I am

Seed Drill

Scientific Method

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• Moliere
• Racine

• Voltarie, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquie, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Beccaria

German composer

• Rembrandt
• Vermeer

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