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2. Analyze the various Protestant views of the relationship between church and state in
the period circa 1500–1700.

3. Analyze the various effects of the expansion of the Atlantic trade on the economy of
Western Europe in the period circa 1450–1700.


4. Compare and contrast the economic factors responsible for the decline of Spain with
the economic factors responsible for the decline of the Dutch Republic by the end of
the seventeenth century.

5. Analyze various ways in which the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) represented a
turning point in European history.