7.2 Guided Reading [PDF]

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Guided Reading Activity 7-2 Social Crises, War, and Revolution DIRECTIONS: Fill in the blanks below as you read Section 2. The great influx of gold and silver from the (1)

and a

growing population demanding land and food led to (2)

in

Europe from 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) 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

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. Under intense torture, accused

(10)

played an important role in the outbreak of the

Thirty Years’ War, as well as (11) (12)

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by evil spirits.

and

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 Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

(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)

(18) bloodless (19)

and his wife

raised an army and invaded England in 1688 in an almost . As William and Mary took the English throne,

they accepted a Bill of Rights setting forth (20)

right to make

laws and levy taxes.

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