Ch14Sec2

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.