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Period: 711 to 1492
Portugal
The Portuguese people were very seafaring, and were also the first people to sail around Africa (Ignitia.com Editors). Henry the Navigator was the person to do so and his desire was to spread the Gospel, explore, and obtain wealth (Ignitia.com Editors). Henry later went to become a major military leader (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Period: 1066 to
Absolutism in France
Absolutism of France had risen similar to England's rise, aspiring French monarchs had to contend with a Huguenot opposition (Ignitia.com Editors). Some of its contributing factors can go all the way back to the reigns of Philip Augustus, Louis IX, and Philip IV (Ignitia.com Editors). This path to absolutism was stopped whenever France and Spain had started a war between the Huguenots and Catholics (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Period: 1326 to 1453
The Ottoman Empire
The start of the Ottoman Empire when the Turks conquered Constantinople (Ignitia.com Editors). The Ottomans crossed the Dardenelles into Europe, seizing the peninsula of Gallipoli (Ignitia.com Editors). Eventually in the 1700s the Ottomans were defeated by the Islams and was not strong enough to held their entire empire (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Period: 1415 to
Germany
The Holy Roman Empire gave the province of Brandenburg to the Hohenzollern's for their military forces (Ignitia.com Editors). They had bought land in Brandenburg which arose the Thirty Years' War (Ignitia.com Editors). Frederick I ruled Germany and led them into victory (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Period: 1500 to
Absolutism in England
These years were a time of knowledge, exploration, and wealth (Ignitia.com Editors). In the period following the Renaissance and Reformation two theories predominated in the government, Political, and economic (Ignitia.com Editors). The political theory was absolutism and economic mercantilism which was more dominant (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Period: 1516 to
Spain
Charles IV became the king of Spain and gained control of the Holy Roman Empire three years later (Ignitia.com Editors). This made Spain a very powerful nation (Ignitia.com Editors). What made Spain more powerful was that Castile and Aragon had merged (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Period: 1524 to
French Exploration and Colonization
French had started their exploration with Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524, he sailed from the Carolinas to Newfoundland on the east coast (Ignitia.com Editors). Samuel de Champlain made the first colony, Quebec in 1608 off of the St. Lawrence River (Ignitia.com Editors). Quebec became the capital of New France, following Quebec, Montreal was colonized further north (Ignitia.com Editors). -
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English Mercantilism
The English had many benefits in Mercantilism (Ignitia.com Editors). The first was the more gold and silver a country had, the more prosperous it is (Ignitia.com Editors). The second benefit, was self-sufficiency, meaning they maintain a great balance of trade with other countries (Ignitia.com Editors). The last benefit with Mercantilism was the existence of colonies which only exist due to the country owning them (Ignitia.com Editors). -
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Colonial Rivalry
The Colonial Rivalry started whenever England had their first colony in Jamestown, Virginia, founded in 1607 (Ignitia.com Editors). A year later, France had settled in a colony such as Quebec (Ignitia.com Editors). Both colonies were successful for the first hundred years but then France wanted more land and started the 7 years war (Ignitia.com Editors). France lost this war in 1763 (Ignitia.com Editors). -
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Austria
Austria was primarily a Catholic country but could not get a large nation because of a Protestantism on the western border (Ignitia.com Editors). This caused an expantion and beak-up of Poland and Austria (Ignitia.com Editors). Turkey wanted to invade Europe but Austria pushed them out back in to Asia (Ignitia.com Editors).