APBI 2016

France ( French Republic )

• Iron Age: Gauls, a Celtic people. • 51 BC – 486 AD: part of Roman empire. • 486: Germanic Franks  Kingdom of France. • Late Middle Ages: Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453)  major European power. • Renaissance  flourishing of French culture & global colonial empire  20th century: 2 nd largest in the world. • 16th century religious civil wars between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots). • Louis XIV: Europe's dominant cultural, political, and military power. • 1789: French Revolution  one of modern history's earliest republics  Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.