The Earth and Its Peoples - Chapter 22
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CHAPTER 22 Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750?1850 I?? seq NLA \r 0 \h . Prelude to Revolution: The Eighteenth-Century Crisis A?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . Colonial Wars and Fiscal Crises 1?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . Rivalry among the European powers intensified in the early 1600s as the Dutch attacked Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas and in Asia. In the 1600s and 1700s the British then checked Dutch commercial and colonial ambitions and went on to defeat France in the Seven Years War (1756?1763) and take over French colonial possessions in the Americas and in India.
