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CHAPTER TIMELINE
1600
1625
Rule by Cardinal Richelieu
Thirty Years’ War
1650 1675
1700 1725
Peter the Great Glorious Revolution
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
Louis XIV
Plays of Molière
Paintings of Rembrandt
Reign of
Frederick William the Great Elector
Official recognition of the Dutch Republic
Plays of Shakespeare
CHAPTER REVIEW
Upon Reflection
Q What does the witchcraft craze tell us about European society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
Q What did Louis XIV hope to accomplish in his domestic and foreign policies? To what extent did he succeed?
Key Terms
absolutism (p. 362) boyars (p. 368) procurator (p. 369)
Suggestions for Further Reading
GENERAL WORKS For general works on the seventeenth cen- tury, see T. Munck, Seventeenth-Century Europe, 1598–1700, 2d ed. (London, 2005); Q. Deakin, Expansion, War, and Rebel- lion, 1598–1661 (Cambridge, 2000); and J. Bergin, Seven- teenth-Century Europe, 1598–1715 (Oxford, 2001).
English Civil War
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
The story of the witchcraft craze can be examined in R. Briggs, Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft, 2d ed. (Oxford,
2002).
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Q What role did the nobility play in England?
gentry (p. 372) Mannerism (p. 378) Baroque (p. 378)
WITCHCRAFT CRAZE