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Chapter Chronology
Answer the focus questions from each section of the chapter.
What were the common crises and achievements of seventeenth-century European states?
What factors led to the rise of the French absolutist state under Louis XIV, and why did absolutist Spain experience decline in the same period?
What were the social conditions of eastern Europe, and how did the rulers of Austria and Prussia transform their nations into powerful absolutist monarchies?
What were the distinctive features of Russian and Ottoman absolutism?
Why and how did the constitutional state triumph in the Dutch Republic and England?