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Constitutionalismand
Absolutism
Unit Overview – Key Topics• English Civil War and Glorious Revolution
oCivil War Events, Kings of the time, Cromwell, English Bill of Rights
• Continuities and Changes to Economic PracticeoBanking and Venture Capital, Insurance, Commercial and Agricultural revolutions
• Economic Development and MercantilismoTriangular trade, economic policies of various states
• The Dutch Golden AgeoPost independence economic boom, republican government
• Balance of PoweroLouis XIV’s many wars, Nine Years war, War of Spanish Succession
• Absolutist Approaches to PoweroPeter the Great, Louis XIV, others
• Comparing Absolutism and Constitutionalism
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Social Contract Theory•
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Absolutism and Constitutionalism: A Side by Side Comparison
Constitutionalism In England•
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Constitutionalism in the Dutch Republic•
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Map of 17th
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Absolutism in France
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Absolutism in Central/Eastern Europe
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