Identifier: worldsstoryhisto07tapp (find matches)
Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s that throughyour goodness and wisdom we may at last have a rest fromthese mad wars. Peace will be made precious to us by thememory of evils past, and our gratitude to you will be doubleby the misfortunes of other times. Dr. Emerton says: All this to Charles of Burgundy,already Most Catholic King of Spain, within a year to beelected Holy Roman Emperor, and destined for the nextgeneration to turn Europe into a battlefield for objects inwhich no one of his numerous subject peoples had the re-motest interest! In this picture Charles is shown, at the age of eleven, seatedon his throne in the palace of Brussels. Beside him is hisguardian, Margaret, daughter of the Emperor MaximiHanof Austria. This boy, who was destined to become the mostpowerful ruler of his age, had inherited the rich provinces ofthe Netherlands five years before this time; five years laterhe inherited from his mother the kingdom of Spain with itsvast possessions in America; and in 1519, he was electedEmperor of Germany.
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II HOW HOLLAND WON HERFREEDOM HISTORICAL NOTE At the death of Ferdinand of Aragon, Charles V of theHouse of Austria, who had inherited the Netherlands fromhis lather, became also ruler of Sjmin. His reign was on thewhole tolerable to the Netherlands. He had been broughtup in their province and they thought of him as one of them-selves. With his son, Philip II, to whom Charles resignedhis throne in 1556, the case was different. He was a gloomy,conscientious bigot, with neither sympathy nor liking for theliberty-loving Dutch. The doctrines of Martin Luther weremaking great headway in the country, and to combat themPhilip II introduced, or revived, the terrible Inquisition.Moreover, he filled the chief oflSces with Spaniards andquartered Spanish soldiers upon the people. Disturbancesbroke out, churches were sacked, and although quiet wasat last restored, Philip sent the Duke of Alva with 20,000veteran troops of Spain to punish the unhappy provinces.Under the merciless rule of Alva and hi

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