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The Commercial Revolution was a period of European economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism which lasted from approximately the late 13th century until the early 18th century. It was succeeded in the mid-18th century by the Industrial Revolution.
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he Siege of Vienna in 1529 was the first attempt by the Ottoman Empire, led by Suleiman the Magnificent, to capture the city of Vienna, Austria.
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Art and music in the Baroque period used exaggerated motion, and detail to create drama.
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Mercantilism was a popular economic philosophy. The British colonies were moneymakers for the mother countries
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he Galileo affair was a sequence of events, beginning around 1610, culminating with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633 for his support of heliocentrism
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Louis XIV also known as Sun King was a monarch of the House of Bourbon. Louis XIV lived at Versailles.
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The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists over, principally, the manner of England's government.
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The peace of Westphalia ended the 30 years war between Spain and the dutch. This also ended the European wars of religon.
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The book Leviathan is a book published by Thomas Hobbes about political philosophy. This book marked the foundation for numerous Western political philosophies.
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The Navigation Acts were a series of English laws that restricted trade in the colonies to only England.The colonies had been becoming rich off of the Triangular Trade with Africa and the West Indies.
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In 1660 Irish, English, and Scottish monarchs were all restored under Charles II. This was after the war of three kingdoms.
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Peter built up Russia's naval power, making it a force to be reckoned with on the seas, and he oversaw several military campaigns that gained Russian territory in the West.
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The Test Acts were a series of English penal laws that served as a religious test for public office and imposed various civil disabilities on Roman Catholics and nonconformists.
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The Edict of Nantes in 1568 granted the right to practice your own religion for the Huguenots. In 1685 Louis XIV took this back.
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European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the enlightenment.
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The Principia Mathematica was one of three books published by Issac Newton. This book is translated to Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and is about how laws of motion and universal gravitation.
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The Glorious Revolution was also known as the Revolution of 1688. It was the overthrow of King James II of England.
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In 1689 John Locke published the Two Treaties of Government anonymously. This book argues the idea of divine rights.
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During the Agricultural Revolution technology improved and crops increased.This allowed a spike in population and increased health.
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Cause of the industrial revolution in England.The enclosure movement was this: wealthy farmers bought land from small farmers, then benefited from economies of scale in farming huge tracts of land.
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The War of Spanish Succession was a major conflict in Europe. During this time Spain and France were trying to unite but never did.
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Maria Theresa, archduchess of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, and queen of Hungary and Bohemia, began her rule in 1740. She was the only woman ruler in the 650 history of the Habsburg dynasty.
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The last occurance of the bubonic plague was in Marseille.
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Catherine II, often called Catherine the Great, was born on May 2, 1729, in Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland), and became the Russian empress in 1762. Under her reign, Russia expanded its territories and modernized, following the lead of Western Europe
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The War of Austrian succession happened because Europe did not want Maria Theresa to take over the house of Hapsburg.
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Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great, was Prussia's king.By winning wars and expanding territories, he established Prussia as a strong military power.
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This war involved every European great power except the Ottoman Empire. At the end Britain rose as the world's predominant power.
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The reversal of longstanding alliances in Europe between the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau published The Social Contract . It was about the moral effects of arts and science
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The American Revolution was a political upheaval, which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America.
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Also known as Napoleon I, was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. Born on the island of Corsica, Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution
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the first of three partitions that ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795.threatening the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg Austrian Empire
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The Classical period had a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music and is less complex. Composers mad mostly religious pieces.
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The wealth of Nation was published by Adam Smith. It was about the nature and causes of wealthy nations.
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The French people reversed the monarchy (absolute and not-absolute) and the king (Louis XVI). After that, the first republic was established, and then under Napoleon, the first empire. The French people won against the French king and the noblesse.
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Slaves initiated the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony.
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Edward Jenner found out that if you take puss from someone with cow pox and injected it into someone skin they wouldn't get small pox. you might get sick for a few days but it wasn't severe.
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This is a time during the 17th century in Dutch history. During this time military, art, and science were very important.
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The Congress of Vienna was convened in 1815 by the four European powers which had defeated Napoleon. The first goal was to establish a new balance of power in Europe which would prevent imperialism within Europe, such as the Napoleonic empire, and maintain the peace between the great powers.
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The Rococo period affecting art, literature, and music. Rococo introduced symmetry and playful and witty themes.
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This book was published by Mary Wollstonecraft. This was one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.
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The term Consumer revolution refers to the period from approximately 1600 to 1750 in England in which there was a marked increase in the consumption and variety of "luxury" goods and products by individuals from different economic and social backgrounds.
