14 and 1500s
Reasons why the Renaissance began in Italy
Humanism, humanists, and their works
Innovations in Renaissance art, artists, and their works
The New Monarchs and Machiavelli
The Age of Exploration (Old Imperialism) – Motives – Technology – Countries Involved – Columbian Exchange
Commercial Revolution (Price revolution) and mercantilism
The Protestant Reformation and Reformers
Religious Wars in France
Revolts in the Netherlands
Causes of the Scientific Revolution along with scientists, their theories, and works they wrote
The De Medici
Charles V
Hapsburg-Valois Wars
Phillip II of Spain
Serfdom in eastern Europe
Peasants’ Revolt in Germany
Time of Troubles in Russia
Papal Schism, Conciliar Movement, and Babylonian Captivity
Catholic Counter Reformation
Peace of Augsburg
Gutenberg and results of his invention
Causes of the Scientific Revolution Copernicus Galielo Kepler Harvey
Baroque art movement
Michel de Montaigne
Northern Renaissance Art, writers, etc.
1600s Anglo-Dutch Wars
English Civil War – James I – Charles I – Cromwell – Charles II – James II
Peter the Great
Putting Out System
Colbert
Cossack Revolts in Russia
Hobbes and Locke
Louis XIV
Test Act in England
1700s
Agricultural Revolution and Enclosure Movement
The Enlightenment, Salons and Deism
Philosophes – Rousseau – Voltaire – Montequieu – D’Holbach – Hume – Diderot
War of the Spanish Succession and Peace of Utrecht
Frederick William I of Prussia
Seven Years’ War
Catherine the Great
Partitions of Poland
Louis XVI and the French Revolution
Napoleon
The Industrial Revolution and Inventions
French Utopian Socialism
Malthus and Ricardo
Wollstonecraft
Adam Smith and Capitalism
Jenner and Vaccinations Hausmann and Paris
Neoclassical Art and Rococo Art
1800s
Congress of Viena
Revolutions of 1830 and 1848
Great Britain: reform Bill of 1832; Poor Law Reform; Chartists; People’s Budget; Corn Laws; Mines’ Act; Reform Bill of 1867
The New Imperialism – Motives – Locations – People – Countries involved – Post WWII
Crimean War
German and Italian unification – People involved – Methods used – results
The Zollverein
Great Famine in Ireland Home Rule Bill
Spencer and Social Darwinism
Science in the 19 th century Comte and positivism Darwin Pasteur Freud Mendeleev
Karl Marx and Engels
Friederich List
Nietzsche
Romanticism in art – Artists – Characteristics – works
Dreyfus Affair and Third Republic in France
Alexander I of Russia and Sergei Witte
Mill On Liberty
Realism in art
Impressionism in art
Marie Curie
The Dreyfus Affair and Zola
1900s Russo-Japanese War
Russian Revolutions
Balkan Wars
Women’s suffrage movement in England
Social Welfare legislation
Planck and Quantum Theory Eistein and theory of relativity
Keynes and economics
Rutherford and atoms
existentialism
Lenin and his NEP program
The Totalitarian Dictators – Mussolini – Hitler – Stalin
Dawes Plan and Great Depression in Europe
WWI
WWII
Marshall Plan
NATO and Warsaw Pacts
The European Union
Civil War in Yugoslavia
The Cold War
Balfour Declaration and founding of Israel
Student rebellion in France, 1968
Spanish Civil War
Women after WWII
Fall of Communism in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Bauhaus style of architecture
Dadaism, Cubism, Post Impressionism and surrealism in art
New technologies in the 20 th century