Establishment of Colonial Empires
Effects of the Commercial Revolution

CHAPTER III. EUROPEAN POLITICS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
The Emperor Charles V
Philip II and the Predominance of Spain

CHAPTER IV. THE PROTESTANT REVOLT AND THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION
The Catholic Church at the Opening of the Sixteenth Century
The Protestant Revolt
Lutheranism
Calvinism
Anglicanism
The Catholic Reformation
Summary of the Religious Revolution in the Sixteenth Century

CHAPTER V. THE CULTURE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
The Invention of Printing
Humanism
Art in the Sixteenth Century
National Literatures in the Sixteenth Century
Beginnings of Modern Natural Science


PART II

DYNASTIC AND COLONIAL RIVALRY

CHAPTER VI. THE GROWTH OF ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE AND THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN
BOURBONS AND HABSBURGS, 1589-1661