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Time Period and


Key Topics

People/Places

Unit 1 1450-1648
Renaissance
Protestant
Reformation
Religious Wars
Exploration
Absolutism (West
and East)
Constitutionalism
English Civil War
1642-51

De Medici of Florence
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Raphael
Donatello
Giotto
Petrarch
Brunelleschi
Baldassare Castiglione
Machiavelli
Christine de Pisan
Pieter Bruegel
Jan Van Eyk
Artemisia Gentileschi
Guttenberg
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Henry VIII (Tudor)
Sir Thomas More
Mary Tudor
Elizabeth I (Tudor)
James I (Stuart)
Charles I (Stuart)
Oliver Cromwell
Charles II (Stuart)
James II (Stuart)
William of Orange
(Hanover)
Ferdinand and Isabella
Charles V
Philip II
Bartolome de las Casas
Columbus (but Italian)
Catherine de Medici
Henry IV (of Navarre)
[Bourbon]
Louis XIII [Bourbon]
Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Mazarin
Louis XIV [Bourbon] [r
1638-1715 Units 1-2)
Hapsburgs--Charles V,
Ferdinand
Explorers: Prince Henry
the Navigator, Magellan,
Cortez

English

Spanish
French

Vocab/Treaties/Books/Art

1555 Peace of Augsburg--cuius regio,

eius religio
1648 Treaty of Westphalia
Huguenots
Edict of Nantes
Navigational Tech: Compass, quadrant,
sextant
Mona Lisa, Virtuvian Man, Last Supper
David, Sistine Chapel, Pieta
School of Athens
David (Bronze)
Book of the City of Ladies
Book of the Courtier
The Prince
Utopia
95 Theses and those Thieving, Murdering
Hordes
Book of Common Prayer
Book of Sports
A Short Account of the Destruction of the
Indies
Columbian Exchange
Mercantilism
Counter Reformation--Jesuits-- Loyola
Baroque--Bernini, Peter Paul Rubens, Bach
Indulgences, Nepotism, Simony, Pluralism-Council of Trent, Index of Prohibited Books
Bank of Amsterdam
Dutch and British East India Companies
Urban Elites--urban problems
La Querelle des Femmes--the Woman
Question
Leisure Activities--carnival, Saints days
Public humiliation:
Charivari, the Stocks, public whippings
Witchcraft

Unit 2 1648-1815
Absolutism
Continues
Age of Reason-Scientific Rev and
Enlightenment
American
Revolution
French Revolution
Latin American
Revolution
Industrial Revolution

Louis XIV (r1638-1715)


Louis XVI & Marie
Antoinette
Napoleon
Maximilien Robespierre
Olympe de Gouges
Louis XVIII

English
Russian
French
Austrian/Hapsburg

James I (Stuart)
Charles I (Stuart)
Oliver Cromwell
Charles II (Stuart)
James II (Stuart)
William of Orange
(Hanover) Wm and Mary
George I (r1714-1727)
George II (r1727-1760)
George III (r1760-1820)

Prussian

Frederick the Great


Charles VI
Maria Theresa
Joseph II

Peter the Great (r16821725)


Catherine the Great
(r1762-1796)
Rembrandt
Jan Vermeer
Jacques Louis David
Jane Austen
Copernicus
Galileo
Newton
Descartes
Hobbes
Locke
Smith
Quesnay
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Rousseau

Building of Versailles Palace


War of Spanish Succession (101-1714)Treaty of Utrecht
War of Austrian Succession (1740-48)-Treaty of Aix la Chapelle
French Revolution 1789-1799
Declaration of the the Rights of Man and
Citizen
Declaration of the the Rights of Woman and
Citizen
Napoleonic Wars 1800-1814
Congress of Vienna (1815)--Balance of
Power, Conservatism, Concert of Europe
Battle of Azov--Black Sea Port
Great Northern War
Building of St. Petersburg
Peter the Greats Reforms of Boyars,
Church, Military (Table of Ranks)
Enlightened Absolutism--Frederick the
Great, Catherine the Great and Joseph II
Pugachevs Rebellion
The Revolution of Heavenly Bodies
Principia
Leviathan
Two Treatise on Government
The Wealth of Nations
The Spirit of Laws
Candide
Social Contract
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
SALONS
Glorious Revolution--English Bill of Rights
1688

Agricultural Revolution: Jethro Tulls Seed


Drill
James Hargreaves--Spinning Jenny
Bank of England; English Property Rights
Overseas Products: Sugar, Tea, Silks,
Tobacco, Coffee
Slavery
Commercial Rivalries
Urbanization, Child Labor, Social Impacts of
Industrialization
Romanticism: Jacques Louis Davids

Mary Wollstonecraft

Napoleon Crossing the Alps


Touissant LOuverture--Haitian Revolt
SociaL new homes built with more privacy, consumer
goods: dishes, mirrors, prints, linens and new leisure:
taverns, coffeehouse, theaters, opera
Lower rate of births, more dedication to child rearing

Unit 3 1815-1914
Congress of Vienna
Revolutions of 1848
Italian Unification
German Unification
MAIN Causes
World I Outbreak
Romanticism,
Realism,
Impressionism, PostImpressionism,
Cubism

Prince Clemens von


Metternich
Mazzini, Cavour, King
Victor Emmanuel II,
Garibaldi, Napoleon III
Kaiser Wilhelm I, Otto von
Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm
II
Charles Darwin
Herbert Spencer
Freud
Einstein
MANY artists and writers
listed in next column

Inventors and Inventions: England Leads:


Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851
Govt support of canals, railroads, trade
Impact of Industry : new classes,
commercialization of agriculture, urbanization,
bourgeois values--nuclear family, gender roles
Factory Act of 1833--Sadler Committee
Leisure: Parks, Sports, Museums, Theaters
CONSUMERISM
Irish Potato Famine, Russian Serfdom
Liberals (Jeremy Bentham), Suffrage
(Chartists; Flora Tristan), Conservatives (Edmund
Burke, Metternich), Utopian Socialists (Robert
Owen, Henri de Saint-Simon), Marxists (Engels,
August Bebel), Anarchists (Mikhail Bakunin,
Georges Sorel)
German Nationalists: Grimm Brothers
Pan-Slavism
Anti-Semitism: Dreyfus Affair
Zionist: Theodore Herzl
German Confederation
Zolleverein--trade network in Prussia
Frederich Lists National System--early
German nationalist.
Greek Independence
Russian Movement Bloody Sunday 1905

Romanticism + Nationalism=Unification
Heart, Brain and Sword
Blood and Iron
New Imperialism--The Sun Never Sets on
the British Empire--England dominates India (its
Crown Jewel)--Sepoy Rebellion
Berlin Conference--European Scramble for
Africa
China--Opium Wars, European Spheres of
Influence, Boxer Rebellion


Pilot

Bismarckian Alliance System--Dropping the


2nd Industrial Revolution--led by Germany

Karl Marx--Communist Manifesto 1848


Balkan Crises; Moroccan crises
Crimean War
Advanced Weaponry-Militarism (machine
gun!)
Medicine Advances--Louis Pasteurs germ
theory, anesthesia, quinine
Art: Van Gogh, Gaugin and Picassos
primitivism
Romanticism: Goya (3rd of
May), Caspar David Friedrich, Turner,
Delacroix (Lady Liberty Leading the
People).
Romantic Composers:
Beethoven, Chopin, Wagner
Romantic Writers: William
Wordsworh, Lord Byron, Percy and Mary
Shelly, Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)
Realism: Charles Dickens,
Leo Tolstoy
Irrational: Friedrich
Nietzsche
Freud--dreams
Einstein--quantum
mechanics-undermined Newtons physics-as well as Marie and Pierre Curies work
Modern Art: Impressionism,
Post Impressionism, Cubism--idealized
beauty and patriotism:
Monet,
Cezanne, Maitsse, Degas, Picasso,
Van Gogh
Imperialism: Pan-German League and
resistance to Imperialism: INC, Zulu, Sepoy Mutiny,
Boxer Rebellion, Meiji Restoration
Lit: Jules Verne and Joseph
Conrad
Charles Darwin--Herbert
Spencer coins Social Darwinism

Unit 4-1914Present
WWI
Russian Revolution
1917
20s-30s
WW2
2nd Wave Feminism
Cold War
Fall of Communism
European Union
Modern European
Issues

Kaiser Wilhelm II
Woodrow Wilson
Georges Clemenceau
Vittorio Orlando
David Lloyd George

MILITARISM--Industry creates killing


machines: machine gun, submarines, airplanes,
siege guns, tanks, poison gas

Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin

Armenian Genocide
Treaty of Versailles vs. Wilsons 14 Points-new nations: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Yugoslavia
The League of Nations--Mandate Territories
in Middle East
Soviet Union--Lenin and Stalin--Bloody
Sunday (1905), Bolsheviks, New Economic Policy,
Five Year Plans and Collective Farms--Ukrainian
Holodomor
THE GREAT DEPRESSION--debt, tariffs,
overproduction, depreciated currencies, disrupted
trade, speculation--1929 Stock Market Crash
Keynesianism in Britain--spend to stimulate!

Francisco Franco
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
John Maynard Keynes
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Enrico Fermi
Pastor Martin Niemoller
Pope John Paull II
Franz Kafka
Erich Maria Remarque
Virginia Wolf
Simone de Beauvoir
Margaret Thatcher
Mary Robinson

Stalemate--trench warfare

Rise of Fascism--Spain, Germany, Italy-loads of details


Hyperinflation in Germany--Weimar
Republic, Beer Hall Putsch, Mein Kampf
Munich Conference--APPEASEMENT
Womens workforce involvement during the
World Wars--second wave feminism after WW2;
baby boom--government socialism--child care,
subsidies for larger families like in France; the pill
RISE of CONSUMERISM post WW2,
especially in Western Europe
COLD WAR: 2 Europes, Iron Curtain,
Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, NATO, Warsaw
Pact, United Nations, Iron Curtain: COMECON
European Trade: European Coal and Steel
Community [France and Germany!!!]--Common
Market--European Union--Maastricht Treaty--THE
EURO
Green Parties--called for less
consumerism/materialism
Civil Rights--Gay and Lesbians
Immigration from former colonies-decolonization

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