STEP 4: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER
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PUT IT ALL TOGETHER
Now, take a step back and try to explain the big picture. Remember to use specific examples from the chapter in your answers.
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ABSOLUTISM What common challenges were faced by absolutist monarchs? How did the rulers of France, Austria, and Prussia respond to these challenges? What social and economic trends accompanied the rise of absolutism in eastern Europe? |
CONSTITUTIONALISM Why did the efforts of English monarchs to build an absolutist state fail?
In what ways was the Dutch Republic unique among seventeenth- |
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RUSSIA AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE How did the Russian tsars gain control over Russia’s landowning elite? How did the Ottoman absolutist state differ from its European counterparts? 
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MAKE CONNECTIONS
How did the conflicts and tensions unleashed by the Reformation shape seventeenth-
What steps were taken during the seventeenth century toward the emergence of the modern nation- 
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