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 19th 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 20th century
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