History of Conquest in South Asia

The seventeenth century was the era of the rise of European heroes: Britain defeated the Spanish Armada; the Netherlands replaced the Hanseatic League as sea coachmen, with thousands of merchant ships all over the world; the Thirty Years' War, Sweden's Gustavus II; the French Sun King Louis XIV, and French Prime Minister Richelieu; the British Civil War, Cromwell's Model Army, and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy; the Anglo-Dutch War, the establishment of British maritime hegemony; and the sudden rise of the Ming Empire, the Pope's emergency edict, and the new Crusades... This is an era of blood and fire. War and conquest, slavery and being enslaved are the themes of this era.