After you've read each chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Discuss the idea and application of absolute monarchy in Louis XIV's France;
- Identify the causes and long-term consequences of the English Civil War;
- Assess the impact of Parliament in seventeenth-century English politics;
- Compare and contrast the fortunes of Eastern and Central European states
after the Thirty Years' War;
- Describe the economic and political interest that led to war in Eastern Europe;
- Explain the importance of international commerce in European economics and
politics.
