2.+Wars+of+Religion

UNIT 2: WARS OF RELIGION

2012-2013

Syllabus (Revised September 21)



Importance of the 17c

[|Pivotal 17c in Europe]

French Wars of Religion

Dutch Wars: An interactive map showing the religious division of Europe:

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John Calvin

Thirty Years' War

TYW Map:[]

Peace of Westphalia

The Fall of Constantinople and Ottoman Empire

[|Ottoman Empire Rises]

Witch hunts and Society

European Exploration and Early Colonies

An interactive map of routes and colonies:[]

Literature and Art

Absolultism

Louis XIV: Domestic

Great video on Versailles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSDMqVd_Gqg&feature=relatedhttp://en.chateauversailles.fr/homepage

Podcast: [] Resources for Louis XIV: [|Louis XIV Sources]

Louis XIV: Foreign Policy

Lords and Peasants, Constitutionalism

English Civil War and Oliver Cromwell

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Dutch Golden Age

Austria and Prussia

Russia

Ivan IV (the Terrible)A useful interactive map of Russian expansion beginning with Ivan IV[]