European Exploration and Conquest 1450-1650 | |
World Contacts Before Columbus | |
The Trade World of the Indian Ocean | |
The Trading States of Africa | |
The Ottoman and Persian Empires | |
Genoese and Venetian Middlemen | |
The European Voyages of Discovery | |
Causes of European Expansion | |
Technology and the Rise of Exploration | |
The Portuguese Overseas Empire | |
The Problem of Christopher Columbus | |
Later Explorers | |
Spanish Conquest in the New World | |
Early French and English Settlement in the New World | |
The Impact of Conquest | |
Colonial Administration | |
Impact of European Settlement on the Lives of Indigenous Peoples | |
Life in the Colonies | |
The Columbian Exchange | |
Europe and the World After Columbus | |
Sugar and Slavery | |
Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects | |
The Birth of the Global Economy | |
Changing Attitudes and Beliefs | |
New Ideas About Race | |
Michel de Montaigne and Cultural Curiosity | |
William Shakespeare and His Influence | |
Looking Back, Looking Ahead | |
Chapter Review | |
Listening to the Past: Columbus Describes His First Voyage | |
Living in the Past: Foods of the Columbian Exchange | |
Individuals in Society: Juan de Pareja | |
Absolutism and Constitutionalism ca. 1589-1725 | |
Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding | |
Peasant Life in the Midst of Economic Crisis | |
The Return of Serfdom in the East | |
The Thirty Years' War | |
Achievements in State-Building | |
Warfare and the Growth of Army Size | |
Popular Political Action | |
Absolutism in France and Spain | |
The Foundations of Absolutism | |
Louis XIV and Absolutism | |
Life at Versailles | |
French Financial Management Under Colbert | |
Louis XIV's Wars | |
The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century | |
Absolutism in Austria and Prussia | |
The Austrian Habsburgs | |
Prussia in the Seventeenth Century | |
The Consolidation of Prussian Absolutism | |
The Development of Russia and the Ottoman Empire | |
The Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow | |
The Tsar and People | |
The Reforms of Peter the Great | |
The Growth of the Ottoman Empire | |
Alternatives to Absolutism in England and the Dutch Republic | |
Absolutist Claims in England | |
Religious Divides and the English Civil War | |
Cromwell and Puritanical Absolutism in England | |
The Restoration of the English Monarchy | |
Constitutional Monarchy and Cabinet Government | |
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century | |
Baroque Art and Music | |
Looking Back, Looking Ahead | |
Chapter Review | |
Living in the Past: The Absolutist Palace | |
Listening to the Past: A German Account of Russian Life | |
Individuals in Society: Glã¼ckel of Hameln | |
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