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21.1-21.5 (21.1 (In 1555, he unwillingly agreed to the Peace of Augsburg…

- - - - When Philip was assigned to the throne religious reform came up which wasn't a new thing to Spain. The Reconquista, the campaign to drive Muslims from Spain,
        had been completed only 64 years before.
        
        Later on the Spanish empire weakened due to inflation ,taxes and other economic issues.Also the population got too large and there wasn't enough basic resources like food.
        
        In the netherland philip kept an army to keep the people under control but when he raised the taxes they revolted and over through the Spanish
- - - - With a new french intellectual movement in France many religious people saw horrible worlds and developed an idea called skepticism.The idea that nothing can ever be known for certain. These thinkers expressed an attitude of doubt toward churches that claimed to have the only correct set of doctrines.
        
        Inn 1661 lotus weakens the power that the nobles have byby excluding them from his councils. In contrast, he
        increased the power of the government agents called intendants, who collected
        taxes and administered justice.
        
        Louis cared about economic sufficiency and a man who help him with that was Jean Colbert.Colbert believed in
        the theory of mercantilism.To prevent wealth from leaving the country, Colbert tried to make France self-sufficient.
- - - - During the war the haps burg troops crushed the protestants armies in the Austria and Spain. The Hapsburg triumph would not last. In 1630, the.Protestant Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his army shifted the tide of war.
        
        Later strong states formed slowly in central Europe then in west.The
        major powers of this region were the kingdom of Poland, the Holy Roman Empire,
        and the Ottoman Empire. None of them was very strong in the mid-1600s.
        
        Later on the Rise of Prussia The Hohenzollerns built up
        their state from a number of small holdings, begin-
        ning with the German states of Brandenburg and
        Prussia. In 1640, a 20-year-old Hohenzollern named
        Frederick William inherited the title of elector of
        Brandenburg.
        
        In 1756, Frederick attacked Saxony, an Austrian ally. Soon every great European power was involved in the war. Fought in Europe, India, and North America, the war lasted until 1763. It was called the Seven Years’ War. The war did not change the territorial situation in Europe.