Excerpt from Six Thousand Years of History, Vol. 9
Centuries furnish convenient divisions for grouping great historical events and national movements, and thus marking the course of the world's progress in civilization. In modern history, the Fifteenth Century shows the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, but this loss to Christendom in the East was soon offset by the marvelous discovery of a New World in the West. The leading event of the Sixteenth Century was the Reformation, begun by an obscure German monk, and ending in the practical severance of the nations of northern Europe from their former obedience to the Pope. The Seventeenth Century was marked by the devastation of Germany in the Thirty Years' War and the struggle for civil and religious liberty in England, in which one King lost his life and another his throne, and the Revolution of 1688 made William of Orange King by the voice of Parliament. As a consequence of the same struggle the English settlement of the Atlantic Coast of North America was begun. In the meantime, through the consummate statecraft of Richelieu, France, though agitated by civil and religious wars, rose to a dazzling eminence, which she maintained in the splendid reign of Louis XIV.
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