2ºESO BILINGUAL: CORRECT POINT 8

The early years of Philip IV´s reign

  1. PHILIP IV. IN 1621
  2. COUNT-DUKE OF OLIVARES
  3. FOREIGN POLICY
    1. IN 1621, WHEN THE TRUCE WITH THE UNITED PROVINCES CAME TO AN END, PHILIP IV STARTED THE WAR AGAIST THE FLEMISH REBELS AGAIN.
    2. PHILIP WAS ALSO LEADER OF THE CATHOLIC FACTION IN THE THIRTY YEARS WAR. SPANISH VITORIES CULMINATED IN THE BATTLE OF NÖRDINGEN, IN 1634, WHEN GERMAN AND SWEDISH PROTESTANTS WERE DEFEATED.
  4. DOMESTIC POLICY
    1. TO SHARE EXPENSES AMONG ALL THE TERRITORIES OF THE HISPANIC MONARCHY. PREVIOUSLY, ONLY CASTILE HD CONTRIBUTED TO THE WARS.
    2. TO INCREASE THE KING´S POWER BY REDUCING THE AUTONOMY OF THE TERRITORIES.
The Thirty Years´ War
  1. THE THIRTY YEARS´ WAR WAS  RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL CONFLICT WHICH AFFECTED MUCH OF EUROPE BETWEEN 1618 AND 1648.
  2. IT BEGAN WHEN BOHEMIAN PROTESTANTS REBELLED AGAINST THEIR KING FERDINAND II, THE HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR.
  3. FERDINAND ASKED THEKING OF SPAIN AND THE DUKE OF BAVARIA FOR HELP, 
  4. THE REVOLT WAS SUPPRESSED.
  5. THE PROTESTANT REGIONS OF THE EMPIRE, THE UNITED PROVINCES, ENGLAND, DENMRK AND SWEDEN SUPPORTED THE BOHEMIAN REBELS.
  6. FRANCE.
  7. NO, THEY WERE UNABLE.
  8. THE TREATY OF WESTPHALIA WAS SIGNED IN 1648.
  9. IT MENT THE END OF THE THIRTY YEARS´ WAR AND RECOGNISED THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED SUPREMACY IN EUROPE.
  10. MUCH OF CENTRAL EUROPE HAD BEEN DESTROYED.

The revolts of Catalonia and Portugal
  1. THE COUNT-DUKE OF OLIVARES´ CENTRALIST POLICY.
  2. IN CATALONIA AND PORTUGAL.
  3. IN 1652 THE REBELLION IN CATALONIA WAS SUPPRESSED.
  4. PORTUGAL DECLARED THEIR INDEPENDENCE.
What was the reign of Charles II like?
  1. PHILIP IV
  2. HE WAS ONLY FOUR YEARS OLD.
  3. HIS MOTHER, MARIANA OF AUSTRIA.
  4. HE WAS 14 YEARS OLD.
  5. BECAUSE HE WAS MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY ILL.
  6. HIS MOTHER AND DIFFERENT ROYAL FAVOURITES.
  7. HE DIED IN 1700.
  8. BECAUSE THE SPANISH THRONE WAS OCCUPIED BY A NEW DINATY, THE HOUSE OF BOURBON, WHICH WAS OF FRENCH ORIGIN.
  9. SOME EUROPEAN ROYAL FAMILIES WANTED THE THRONE OF SPAIN.
  10. PHILIP V OF BOURBON.



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