CHAPTER 15 OUTLINE I. Social Crises, War, and Rebellions A. The Witchcraft Craze 1. 1. The Spread of Witchcraft 2. 2. Decline B. The Thirty Years’ War 1. 1. Background to the War 2. 2. The Bohemian Phase 3. 3. The Danish Phase 4. 4. The Swedish Phase 5. 5. The Franco-Swedish Phase 6. 6. Outcomes of the War C. A Military Revolution? D. Rebellions II. The Practice of Absolutism: Western Europe A. Absolute Monarchy in France 1. 1. Foundations of French Absolutism: Cardinal Richelieu 2. 2. Cardinal Mazarin B. The Reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715) 1. 1. Administration of the Government 2. 2. Religious Policy3. 3. Financial Issues 4. 4. Daily Life at the Court of Versailles 5. 5. The Wars of Louis XIV C. The Decline of Spain 1. Reign of Philip IV III. Absolutism in Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe A. The German States 1. 1. The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia 2. 2. The Emergence of Austria B. Italy: From Spanish to Austrian Rule C. Russia: From Fledgling Principality to Major Power 1. 1. The Reign of Peter the Great (1689-1725) 2. 2. Russia as a Military Power D. The Great Northern States 1. 1. Denmark 2. 2. Sweden E. The Ottoman Empire F. The Limits of Absolutism .IV. Limited Monarchy and Republics .A. The Weakness of the Polish Monarchy .B. The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic.1. Life in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam .C. England and the Emergence of Constitutional Monarchy 1. 1. King James I and Parliament 2. 2. Charles I and the Move toward Revolution 3. 3. Civil War in England 4. 4. Cromwell and New Governments 5. 5. Restoration of the Monarchy 6. 6. A Glorious Revolution 7. 7. Responses to Revolution .V. The Flourishing of European Culture A. The Changing Faces of Art 1. 1. Mannerism 2. 2. The Baroque Period 3. 3. French Classicism4. 4. Dutch Realism B. A Wondrous Age of Theater 1. 1. William Shakespeare 2. 2. Spain’s Golden Century 3. 3. French Drama VI.