The seventeenth century saw the confluence of wars, regime change, popular revolt, and natural disasters on an unprecedented, global scale
The 17th century was a century of rebellion against monarchical regimes. It was a general crisis in Europe where the people organised revolts to establish a regime of “mixed monarchy”.
James Harrington who, in 1656, diagnosed the general crisis which had produced such violent results in his own country of Oceana. “What”, he asked, “is become of the Princes of Germany? Blown up. Where are the Estates or the power of the people in France ? Blown up. Where is that of the people of Aragon and the rest of the Spanish kingdoms ? Blown up. Where is that of the Austrian princes in Switz? Blown up . . . (Trevor Roper, 1959)
- social patterns
The social revolts organized in the 17th century were struggles for power, looking at the society’s structure, they have been damaged by the various episodes of the plague that have weakened the poor classes and affected the countries demographic. 
Between the 30 years war that took place at the beginning of the century and the various episodes of the plague, the European population experienced an important demographic decline starting in the firstplague episode in the 14th century that recovered around 1750.
But also by the wars that have taken place in Europe in the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th that have weakened the monarchies in power. As a result, society became more fragile and this led to numerous revolts in a large part of European countries.
In I640 there was the revolt of Catalonia, which failed, and the revolt of Portugal, which succeeded: in I64I there was nearly a revolt of Andalusia too; in I647 there was the revolt of Naples, the revolt of Masaniello. To contemporary observers it seemed that society itself was in crisis, and that this crisis was general in Europe. (Trevor Roper, 1959)
III. economic patterns
the economic crisis of the 17th century in europe is mainly marked by the decline of the Mediterranean economies and the rise of north atlantic ones. The 16th century marked the beginnings of capitalism and the beginning of an industrial revolution that would leave its mark on the economy.
The consequences of social instability have reinforced the cleavages between social classes, creating a complicated economic climate. The classes then sought to find a better societal equilibrium. « the period was seen by some nations as Golden age, while it was for others an era of decadences or collapse ». (De Vries, 1976)
II. climate patterns
Geoffrey Parker has suggested that environmental factors may have been in part to blame, especially the global cooling trend of this period
At that time, the variations in harvests and the weather conditions, which largely determine them, exert an influence on the standard of living of the masses and on the whole economy, a great influence on the more decisive than nowadays
The climate was affected in several ways: first of all it was “the little ce age”, a period when the coldest temperatures were recorded (between the 15th and the 17th century), which then had a direct phenological impact on the crops, thus having a direct social and meteorological impact.
due to very cold temperatures, glaciers in Europe as well as in France and Norway have increased significantly. 
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Le Roy Ladurie, E., 1960. Climat et récoltes aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. [online] Available at: <https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/ahess_0395-2649_1960_num_15_3_421618.pdf> [Accessed 11 February 2021].
Trevor Roper, H., 1959. The General Crisis of the 17th Century on JSTOR. [online] Jstor.org. Available at: <https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/650152.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A8330cd9db8618191f7b57cb533b2af5b> [Accessed 11 February 2021].