g. The Age of Walpole 4. Rise of Absolute Monarchy in France: The World of Louis XIV a. Years of Personal Rule b. Versailles c. King by Divine Right d. Louis’s Early Wars e. Louis’s Repressive Religious Policies i. Suppression of the Jansenists ii. Revocation of the Edict of Nantes f. Louis’s Later Wars i. The League of Augsburg and the Nine Years’ War ii. War of the Spanish Succession
g. France after Louis XIV i. John Law and the Mississippi Bubble ii. Renewed Authority of the Parlements 5. Central and Eastern Europe a. Poland: Absence of Strong Central Authority b. The Habsburg Empire and the Pragmatic Sanction c. Prussia and the Hohenzollerns 6. Russia Enters the European Political Arena a. The Romanov Dynasty b. Peter the Great i. Developing a Navy ii. Russian Expansion in the Baltic: The Great Northern War iii. Founding St. Petersburg iv. The Case of Peter’s Son Aleksei v. Reforms of Peter the Great’s Final Years vi. Administrative Colleges vii. Table of Ranks viii. Achieving Secular Control of the Church 7. The Ottoman Empire a. Religious Toleration and Ottoman Government i. The Role of Ulama b. The End of Ottoman Expansion
1. The Netherlands: Golden Age to Decline i. Seven provinces that became the United Provinces of the Netherlands emerged as a new state recognized by European powers in the 1580s ii. Netherlands won formal independence in the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) iii. Warfare forged identity of the Nlands: independence wars from Spain, naval wars with England, defense against the armies of Louis XIV iv. William III-