Relevant Geographical Regions

• Bohemia (and its major city Prague)
• Prussia
• Palatinate (Upper and Lower)
• City of Magdeburg
• Pomerania (controls Oder River)
• Bremen-Verden (controls Weser and Elbe Rivers)
• United Provinces
• Spanish Netherlands
• Metz, Toul, and Verdun

TERMS

• Hugo Grotius / Natural Law
• Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler (both worked at the imperial court in Prague)
• Galileo
• Rene Descartes / ‘cogito ergo sum’

From Chapter 6 in Gay&Webb

• The Mid-17th Century Crisis
• The Thirty Years War (Bohemian, Danish, Swedish, and French Phases) 1618-48
• Defenestration of Prague
• Frederick V of the Palatinate, the Winter King
• Maximilian von Wittelsbach of Bavaria / The Catholic League
• Baroque
• Albrecht von Wallenstein
• Edict of Restitution (1629)
• Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
• Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) and The Battle of Lutzen (1632)
• Treaties of Munster and Osnabruck (aka Westphalia)
• Cardinal Richelieu
• Revolts of Catalonia and Portugal (1640)
• The Republic of the United Provinces
• William III of Orange