 |  A History of the Modern World, 9/e R R Palmer,
Yale University
Joel Colton,
Duke University
Lloyd Kramer,
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Economic Renewal and Wars of Religon, 1560-1648
Learning ObjectivesChapter 3 teaches students about:
| The mixed consequences of the opening of the Atlantic, which included an expansion in trade and an increase in wealth, but also the growth of the slave trade, population decimation, and the destruction and transformation of cultures. |
| | | | The population explosion and price revolution that signaled the rise of a capitalist system and the transition from town-centered economies to national economies. |
| | | | The relationship between new forms of production and the social classes of European societies. |
| | | | The diversity of the newly emergent bourgeoisie. |
| | | | The divergences between the development of eastern and western Europe. |
| | | | Philip II's encounters with the Dutch and English during his campaigns against Protestantism and the assertions of independence by his Dutch subjects. |
| | | | The establishment of national independence by the English. |
| | | | The decline of Spain, economically and politically on the heels of the revolt of the Netherlands. |
| | | | The feudalistic nature of the religious wars in France, and the tensions between centralization and localism. |
| | | | The ramifications of the issuing and revocation of the Edict of Nantes. |
| | | | The variety of issues over which the Thirty Years' Was was fought. |
| | | | The fragmentation of Germany and the subsequent forestalling of German national unification. |
| | | | The advent of the modern European system of sovereign states. |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education