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HIST 111 Chapter 15 Lecture Europe Transformed Reform and State Building


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Topics covered in this episode: 

  • Discuss the main tenets of Lutheranism and Calvinism and how they differed from each other and from Catholicism.
  • ™Appreciate why the period between 1560 and 1650 is considered an age of crisis in Europe.
  • ™Understand what absolutism was, as well as what the main characteristics were of the absolute monarchies that emerged in France, Prussia, Austria, and Russia.
  • ™Grasp how and why England avoided the path of absolutism.
  • ™Understand how the artistic and literary achievements of this era reflected the political and economic developments of the period.
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