Guided Reading 14-2
The great influx of gold and silver from the (1) ________________ and a growing population demanding land and food led to (2) ________________ in Europe fro 1560 to 1650. Spain’s economy was seriously falling by the 1640s due to (3) ________________ producing less silver, fleets subject to (4) ________________ attacks, and the loss of Muslim and Jewish (5) ________________ and (6) ________________.
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries more than a hundred thousand people were charged with (7) ________________. Under intense torture, accused witches usually (8) ________________ to a number of practices. By 1650, people were finding it (9) ________________ to believe in the old view of a world haunted by evil spirits.
(10) ________________ played an important role in the outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War, as well as (11) ________________ and (12) ________________ motives. The Peace of (13) ________________ stated that all German states, including the Calvinist ones, could determine their own religion.
At the core of the English Revolution was the struggle between king and (14) ________________ to determine what role each should play in governing England. James I of England believed kings receive their (15) ________________ from God and are responsible only to him. Under the armies of (16) ________________, Parliament finally proved victorious.
Dutch leader William of (17) ________________ and his wife (18) ________________ raised an army and invaded England in 1688 in an almost bloodless (19)________________. As William and Mary took the English throne, they accepted a Bill of Rights setting forth (20) ________________ right to make laws and levy taxes.