Western Civilization

CHAPTER TIMELINE

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?

Q What role did the nobility play in England?

Key Terms

absolutism(p. 362)

boyars(p. 368)

procurator(p. 369)

gentry(p. 372)

Mannerism(p. 378)

Baroque(p. 378)

Suggestions for Further Reading

GENERAL WORKS For general works on the seventeenth cen-

tury, seeT. Munck,Seventeenth-Century Europe, 1598–1700,

2d ed. (London, 2005);Q. Deakin,Expansion, War, and Rebel-

lion, 1598–1661(Cambridge, 2000); andJ. Bergin,Seven-

teenth-Century Europe, 1598–1715(Oxford, 2001).

WITCHCRAFT CRAZE The story of the witchcraft craze can

be examined inR. Briggs,Witches and Neighbors: The Social

and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft, 2d ed. (Oxford,

2002).

1600 1625 1650 1675 1700 1725

Rule by Cardinal

Richelieu

Reign of Louis XIV

Frederick William the Great Elector Peter the Great

Thirty Years’ War

English Civil War

Paintings of Rembrandt

Plays of Shakespeare

Plays of Molière

Glorious Revolution

Official recognition of the Dutch Republic

Thomas Hobbes,Leviathan John Locke,Two Treatises of Government

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