AP European History
Study Questions
Chapter 15: State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century
Social Crisis, War and Rebellion
1. How did economic and population changes change Europe in the seventeenth
century?
2. List and describe the causes and effects of the “witchcraft craze.”
3. Describe the causes of the Thirty Years’ War.
4. Explain each of the following phases of the Thirty Years’ War.
a. The Bohemian Phase
b. The Danish Phase
c. The Swedish Phase
d. The Franco-Swedish Phase
5. List the results of the Thirty Years’ War.
6. How did military warfare change during the Thirty Years’ War?
The Practice of Absolutism: Western Europe
7. Define absolutism.
8. List Bishop Jacques Bossuet’s theories on divine-right monarchy.
9. Explain how cardinal Richelieu strengthened the French monarchy.
10. How did Richelieu strengthen the central administration of France?
11. What were the causes of the “Fronde?” How did cardinal Mazarin deal with it?
12. List the reforms that Louis XIV implemented upon his ascension to the throne.
13. How did Louis XIV restructure the French government?
14. How did Louis XIV control the provinces and the people? Why?
15. How did Louis XIV deal with French Huguenots?
16. List the economic polices of Jean –Baptiste Colbert.
17.
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