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  • Period: 1400 to 1500

    Italian Renaissance

  • Period: 1422 to 1515

    French New Monarchs (Charles VII)

    Ends civil war between two houses; first permanent royal army; gains Brittany by marriage; Concordat of Bologna (control of clergy appointments)
  • 1440

    Printing press invented

  • Period: 1455 to 1487

    War of the Roses

    War between houses of Lancaster and York for control of English throne. Ultimately both lines went extinct and the Tudors took over.
  • Period: 1462 to 1505

    Formation of Russia (Ivan the Great)

    Kievan Rus (around Ukraine) under Mongol suzerainty; Dutchy of Moscow gains power --> Ivan the Great expands territory by adapting Mongol institutions
  • Period: 1469 to 1516

    Spanish New Monarchs (Ferdinand + Isabella)

    Aragon and Castile remain independent but share foreign policy after marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella; Govern through royal council and exclude nobles; complete Reconquista by taking Granada; expel Jews and do Inquisition to find secret Jews, ally with everyone that can help defend against France
  • Period: 1485 to 1509

    English New Monarchs (Henry VII)

    Govern through royal council over Parliament; appoint professional classes to council instead of nobility; negotiate instead of waging war; marry with Catherine of Aragon for legitimacy
  • 1492

    Columbus reaches America; end of Reconquista

  • Period: 1500 to

    Colonization 1.0 (Spain and Portugal)

    Conquest of Aztecs and Incas; Spanish empire; transatlantic slave trade; sugar plantations in Caribbean
  • Period: 1509 to 1547

    English Reformation

    Henry VIII splits with Catholic church because Charles V forces pope to deny his divorce requests; Anglicanism creates bureaucratic state
  • 1517

    Martin Luther Publishes 95 Theses

  • Period: 1517 to 1555

    Reformation

  • Period: 1519 to 1556

    Charles V's Habsburg Empire

    Through multigenerational marriage alliances, he inherited Holy Roman Empire, Spain + Spanish colonial holdings; pretty much everyone but France and Ottomans were his ally; super Catholic, champion of the counter-reformation but failed to stop Reformation
  • Period: 1533 to

    Ivan the Terrible

    peasants --> serfs; expand territory with Cossack (independent warrior band) support; purge nobility and replace with service nobility
  • Period: 1540 to

    Scientific Revolution

  • 1555

    Peace of Ausburg

  • Period: 1558 to

    English Greatness

    Following Bloody Mary, Elizabeth I institutes Anglican orthopraxy to accomodate both Anglicans and Catholics; prosperity; wrecks Spanish Armada; eliminates Catholic Mary Queen of Scots;
  • Period: 1568 to

    Dutch War of Independence

    Calvinism spreads in Spanish-held Netherlands --> riots + violent suppresion --> civil war between Catholic and Calvinist provinces --> Northern United Provinces becomes Protestant and south stays Spanish and Catholic

  • Spanish Armada Destroyed

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    Dutch Golden Age

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    Foundations of French Absolutism

    Henri le Grand + Louis XIII; gradual centralization via intendents, infrastructure
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    English Constitutionalism

    Elizabeth has no heir --> Stuart kings --> King vs Parliament on taxation needed to put down Scottish and Irish revolts --> civil war --> Parliament (aka Oliver Cromwell) wins --> Protectorate = military dictatorship --> Restored monarchy too Catholic for Anglican parliament --> Glorious Revolution
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    Romanov Dynasty

    Ends Russian time of troubles; Conquer Siberia; fur trade; continues crushing serfs
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    30 Year's War

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    Habsburg Absolutism 1.0

    Ferdinands consolidate their empire after 30 Year's War; establish direct rule of Bohemia; reconquers Hungary but fails to establish total control
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    Prussian Absolutism 1.0 (the 3 Fredericks)

    create of Prussia from scattered territories; coopt nobility to fund army; create military state

  • Peace of Westphalia; La Fronde (French civil war)

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    Louis XIV

    Absolutism; Versailles; Expensive wars
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    Russian Absolutism 1.0 (Peter the Great)

    Westernization; Building St. Petersburg to import Western culture and contain nobles; conquer Sweden with difficulty; crush peasants; beard trimming

  • Glorious Revolution

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    Enlightenment

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    Prussian Absolutism 2.0 (the 4th Frederick)

    War of Austrian Succession --> Prussia conquers Silesia from Austria
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    Austrian Absolutism 2.0

    Maria Theresa = old-fashioned absolutist
    - church, agricultural and administrative reforms
    Joseph II
    - abolishes serfdom, lets peasants pay landlords in cash --> huge disaster, peasant revolts

  • Industrious Revolution

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    7 Year's War

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    Russian Absolutism 2.0 (Catherine the Great)

    Promotes enlightenment learning; modest legal reforms --> Cossack revolt --> crushes serfs; partition of Poland
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    French Revolution

    Calling of estates general to thermidorian reaction
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    French Directory

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    Napoleonic era

    Coup of 18 Brumaire to Congress of Vienna