Discuss the failure of Charles V to unify Europe and the ability of European monarchies to centralize state control in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
Students should discuss the attempts by Charles V to unify Europe under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire. They should describe his coalition and its purpose: to prevent the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. Although the Ottoman Empire was turned away in 1529, Charles V eventually gave up his goal of European unification after decades of bitter fighting. Spain, France, and England began to build successful states based on political centralization and religious unity. Royal authority was boosted by limiting the authority of the church, although different nations took a wide array of routes to that end. For example, Spain united behind the Inquisition, France switched from Calvinism back to Catholicism, and England created the Church of England. Monarchs also promoted national institutions, such as standardized national languages and political offices.
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