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  2. 16th century - Wikipedia

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    The mercantilist doctrine encouraged the many intra-European wars of the period and arguably fueled European expansion and imperialism throughout the world until the 19th century or early 20th century. The Reformation in central and northern Europe gave a major blow to the authority of the papacy and the Catholic Church.

  3. List of wars: 1500–1799 - Wikipedia

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    Graph of global conflict deaths from 1500 to 1799 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1500 and 1799. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.

  4. Germany in the early modern period - Wikipedia

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    The empire in 1705 from L'Empire d'Allemagne, a map by Nicolas de Fer Augsburg in the early 16th century, by Jörg Breu the Elder. The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which originated with the Italian Renaissance in Italy.

  5. List of conflicts in Europe - Wikipedia

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    8 16th century. 9 17th century. 10 18th century. 11 19th century. 12 20th century. 13 21st century. ... This is a list of conflicts in Europe ordered chronologically, ...

  6. Reformation - Wikipedia

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    The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] was a major theological movement or period or series of events in Western Christianity in 16th-century Northwestern Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

  7. European wars of religion - Wikipedia

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    The European wars of religion were a series of wars waged in Europe during the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Fought after the Protestant Reformation began in 1517, the wars disrupted the religious and political order in the Catholic countries of Europe, or Christendom .

  8. Late Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The period from the early 14th century up until – and sometimes including – the 16th century is rather seen as characterized by other trends: demographic and economic decline followed by recovery, the end of Western religious unity and the subsequent emergence of the nation-state, and the expansion of European influence onto the rest of the ...

  9. Category:16th-century conflicts - Wikipedia

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