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<p>(England) in 1612 before reaching the <a href="page.php?w=European_colonization_of_the_Americas">New World</a> by the <a href="page.php?w=Salem_witch_trials">1690s</a>.</p>

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<p>In its continuing efforts to consolidate and centralize power, the Crown under <a href="page.php?w=Louis_XIII">Louis XIII</a> ordered the walls around Loudun, a town in <a href="page.php?w=Poitou">Poitou</a>, France, to be demolished. The populace were of two minds concerning this. The <a href="page.php?w=Huguenots">Huguenots</a>, for the most part,</p><p>
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