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# == CHAPTER 15 - AGE OF ABSOLUTISM ==
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# {} Chronology
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- ca 1500-1650 - Consolidation of Serfdom in Eastern Europe
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- 1533-1584 - Reign of Ivan the Terrible in Russia
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- 1589-1610 - Reign of Henry IV in France
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- 1598-1613 - Time of Troubles in France
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- 1620-1740 - Growth of Absolutism in Austria and Prussia
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- 1642-1649 - English Civil War, which ends with execution of Charles I
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- 1643-1715 - Reign of Louis XIV in France
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- 1653-1658 - Military rule in England under Oliver Cromwell (the Protectorate)
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- 1660 - Restoration of English Monarchy under Charles II
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- 1665-1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert applies mercantilism to France
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- 1670 - Charles II agrees to re-Catholicize England in secret agreement with Louis XIV
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- 1670-1671 - Cossack revolt led by Stenka Razin
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- ca. 1680-1750 - Construction of absolutist palaces
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- 1682 - Louis moves courts to Versailles
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- 1682-1725 - Reign of Peter the Great in Russia
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- 1683-1718 - Habsburgs push the Ottoman Turks from Hungary
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- 1685 - Edict of Nantes revoked in France
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- 1688-1889 - Glorious Revolution in England
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- 1701-1713 - War of the Spanish Succession
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# {} Seventeenth Century Crisis and Rebuilding
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Referred to as the Age of Crisis
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- Religious
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- Social
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- Political
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- etc
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Led to expansion of government, taxation, and military
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## == The Social Order and Peasant Life ==
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Social hierarchy in most countries:
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Monarch
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Clergy (catholic countries)
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Nobility
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Merchants
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Artisans
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Peasants
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In Western Europe many peasants owned land
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In Eastern Europe most peasants were serfs
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## == Famine and Economic Crisis ==
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Change in climate led to food shortages (just like before and during the plague)
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