HISTORY 102

Western Civilization Post 1689

Tri-County Technical College

T. Richey,

Instructor

Course Calendar

Supplemental Syllabus	Course Textbook	Jump To
		UNIT I UNIT II UNIT III UNIT IV

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UNIT I: The Age of Absolutism 1533-1725

TEST I MATERIALS Supplemental Readings Packet PRESENTATIONS Absolutism in Western Europe Foundations of Absolutism, Louis XIV, Mercantilism Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe Absolutism in Prussia and Russia The Development of English Constitutionalism English Reformation, The Stuarts, English Bill of Rights, Philosophers of Government TEST I STUDY GUIDE

UNIT II: Enlightenment and Revolution 1543-1815

TEST II MATERIALS Supplemental Readings Packet PRESENTATIONS The Scientific Revolution Galileo, Newton, Bacon, Descartes, etc. The Enlightenment Philosophes, Voltaire, Diderot, etc. The French Revolution Estates General, Reign of Terror, etc. The Napoleonic Era Napoleon, Napoleonic Code, Waterloo, etc. TEST II STUDY GUIDE

UNIT III: The Age of Progress 1815-1914

TEST III MATERIALS Supplemental Readings Packet PRESENTATIONS The Peace Settlement and “Isms” Congress of Vienna, Conservatism, Liberalism, Nationalism The Industrial Revolution and Romanticism Industry, Progress, Nature, etc. Liberal Reform and the Working Class Corn Laws, Reform, Chartists, Socialism, etc. Nationalism and Unification Nationalism, Unification of Germany and Italy, Bismarck, etc. The New Imperialism Imperialism, The Scramble for Africa, Cecil Rhodes, etc. TEST III STUDY GUIDE

UNIT IV: A Century of Conflict 1914-1992

TEST IV MATERIALS Supplemental Readings Packet PRESENTATIONS World War I Causes, Course, and the Versailles Treaty Expressionist Art Art inspired by World War I Totalitarianism Communists, Fascists, and Nazis… Oh my! World War II Appeasement, Allies, Axis, etc. The Cold War Era Iron Curtain, Berlin Wall, etc. TEST IV STUDY GUIDE