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Competing for Power Competing for Power and Wealthand WealthThe Old Regime
1715-1789
Competing for Power and Wealth
The Big Picture
1650 1850
Scientific Revolution
Rise of Absolutism
1750
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English Civil War Agricultural Revolution
Enlightenment
Industrial Revolution in Britain
French Revolution
American Revolution
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§ Rising Ambitions in Eastern Europe
Statebuilding and War
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§ Rising Ambitions in Eastern Europe New Leadership in Expanding Russia Catherine the Great The Partition of Poland
Statebuilding and War
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§ Rising Ambitions in Eastern Europe
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§ Rising Ambitions in Eastern Europe Forging a Military State in Prussia Austria Tries to Hold on The Midcentury Land Wars The Diplomatic Revolution
Statebuilding and War
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§ Rising Ambitions in Eastern Europe
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§ Warfare in the Eighteenth Century
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§ Western Europe and the Great Colonial Rivalry The French Monarchy in Decline
Statebuilding and War
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§ Western Europe and the Great Colonial Rivalry
Statebuilding and War
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§ Western Europe and the Great Colonial Rivalry Making the British System Work Colonies, Trade, and War The Triangle of Trade The Slave Trade Fighting on Three Continents
Statebuilding and War
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§ Western Europe and the Great Colonial Rivalry
Statebuilding and War
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§ Enlightened Monarchs Frederick the Great Joseph II Style, Substance, or Survival?
The Twilight of Monarchies? The Question of Enlightened Absolutism
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§ The Agricultural Revolution New Crops and Techniques Enclosures
Changes in Country and City Life
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§ Manufacturing Spreads in the Countryside: Cottage Industry
Changes in Country and City Life
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§ More People, Longer Lives Population Growth Eighteenth-century Medicine
Changes in Country and City Life
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§ More People, Longer Lives
Changes in Country and City Life
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§ Deepening Misery for the Poor
Changes in Country and City Life
“The people could only exist by exhausting their resources.”
-Jacques Turgot
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§ Prosperity and the Bourgeoisie Upper-middle Class
Changes in Country and City Life
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§ The Advent of the Modern Novel DeFoe Fielding Burney
The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and New
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§ Pride and Sentiment in Art and Architecture Watteau Greuze
The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and New
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§ Reaching New Heights in Music Baroque Music The Classical Style
The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and New
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Biography: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Child Prodigy, Musical genius
The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and New
“You know that I am, so to speak, swallowed up in music, that I am busy with it all day - speculating, studying, considering.”
-Mozart
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§ The Grand Tour
The Culture of the Elite: Combining the Old and New
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§ Festivals and Popular Literature
Culture for the Lower Classes
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§ Gin and Beer
Culture for the Lower Classes
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§ Religious Revivals Pietism
Culture for the Lower Classes
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§ Insults, Interests, and Principles: The Seeds of revolt New Commercial Regulations and Taxes
Foreshadowing Upheaval: The American Revolution
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§ A war for Independence
Foreshadowing Upheaval: The American Revolution
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§ Creating a New Nation War for Independence or Revolution?
Foreshadowing Upheaval: The American Revolution