The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648.Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle, famine, and disease, while some areas of what is now modern Germany experienced population declines of over 50%.

The Kingdom of France (French: Royaume de France) in the early modern period, from the Renaissance (circa 1500–1550) to the Revolution (1789–1804), was a monarchy ruled by the House of Bourbon (a Capetian cadet branch).This corresponds to the so-called Ancien Régime ("old rule"). The territory of France during this period increased until it included essentially the …

A symbol of absolutism. Located some 12 miles (20 kilometres) south-west of Paris, Versailles had been the seat of France’s royal government since the late 1600s. Versailles was not a single palace but a sprawling complex of buildings and outbuildings, manicured lawns and gardens, roads and decorative features.

17-09-2021 · Siam is a formable nation that can be formed by any nation is in the Siamese culture group. Ayutthaya can form Siam with the mission Royal Absolutism if the Leviathan DLC is enabled, however, this takes exceptionally long - deep into the 1600s - as it requires development of 500 and absolutism of 75. A materially faster alternative is to form Siam starting as Lan …

Sweden and Prussia have events to increase their maximum absolutism. France, Portugal, Sweden, and Russia have events, decisions, or ideas that give yearly absolutism gain. 1.20: E Abu Bakr II’s Ambition. Start as Mali and have 4 Colonial …

Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.Commonly referred to as Galileo, his name was pronounced / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ. oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ. i ˌ / (GAL-ih-LAY-oh GAL-ih-LAY-ee, Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛi]).He was born in the city of Pisa, then part of ...

René Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine, Province of Touraine (now Descartes, Indre-et-Loire), France, on 31 March 1596. René Descartes was conceived about halfway through August 1595. His mother, Jeanne Brochard, died a few days after giving birth to a …

The Victorian era and the early 20th century idealised the Elizabethan era. The Encyclopædia Britannica maintains that "[T]he long reign of Elizabeth I, 1558–1603, was England's Golden Age... 'Merry England', in love with life, expressed itself in music and literature, in architecture and in adventurous seafaring". This idealising tendency was shared by Britain and an Anglophilic …

Nonviolent resistance (NVR), or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence. This type of action highlights the desires of …

The early modern period of modern history spans the period after the Late Middle Ages of the post-classical era (c. 1400–1500) through the beginning of the Age of Revolutions (c. 1800).Although the chronological limits of this period are open to debate, the timeframe is variously demarcated by historians as beginning with the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople …