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Dates of the Exam:
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Classical Era to Renaissance
Classical Era: early sources of law philosophers Greeks (Alexander) Romans (Julius Caesar) Middle Ages
Renaissance (1350-1600)
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Reformation to Enlightenment
Church abuses Luther’s 95 big ones Zwingli Calvin & Geneva Counter Reformation Baroque Art English Reformation Religious Wars: Dutch Revolt, French Conflict, English/Spanish, 30 Years War (1618-1648) Copernicus, Galileo, Newton Bacon, Descartes, Pascal English Civil War Glorious Revolution Louis XIV & Absolute monarchy in France Hobbes & Locke Mercantilism & Mercantilist wars: Jenkins Ear, Austrian Succession, Seven Years War Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Adam Smith Encyclopedia Deism |
Age of Revolutions
enclosure, crop rotation new crops & inventions for agriculture and industry First Industrial Rev. (GB leads: textiles, steam & coal) New Cities American Revolution (enlightenment impact) French Revolution causes: debt, social tension, finances & hunger Bastille &Versailles Dec. Rights of Man French Revolutionary Wars Jacobins & Reign of Terror Rise of Napoleon Napoleonic Code Napoleonic Wars (conquering Europe) Continental System Resistance to Nappy ($ from GB) Spain, Germany, Austria Congress of Vienna |
Industrialism & the Changing
Face of Europe
Nationalism Liberalism Socialism Conservatism & conservative oppression Romanticism Chartism Revolutions of 1848 (Italy vs. Austria, France & Nappy III, Vienna & A-H, Berlin) Crimean War Cavour, Garibaldi & Italian Unification Bismarck, Prussia & German Unification Wars of Unification Second Industrial Rev. (oil, chemicals, steel) Darwin, Freud, Pasteur Labor Unions Marx, growth of socialism Cities (sanitation, electricity, etc.) Jewish Emancipation, Zionism Realism Impressionism |