Units IV and V
1450 -1910
Columbian Exchange/ Triangular Trade/Slave Trade=Middle Passage
Colonization of the New
World
Prince Henry, da Gama, & Dias
Technological Advances – Caravel, Astrolabe & Compass
Terrace Farming/Inca
Inca/Aztec/Farming/Irrigation
Absolute Monarch - Louis XIV of France
Absolute Monarchs
Absolute Monarch – Elizabeth I of England
English Parliament – Early Democracy
Scientific RevolutionGalilei Newton Copernicus
Scientific Methods – Experimentation and Observation
Questioned traditional View
Enlightenment Philosopher - John Locke - Natural Laws
Enlightenment Philosopher - Montesquieu
Enlightenment Philosopher –
Rousseau- Social Contract
and Reason
Main Cause of French Revolution : Estate General -Three Estates
Causes of the French Revolution
Louis XVI - Guillotined
Robespierre/Reign of Terror
Napoleon – Napoleonic Code
• Based on Enlightenment Ideal
• Create one law code for France
• Often compared with Hammurabi Code, Roman Twelve Tables, and Justinian Code
Napoleon Defeated by Russian Winter
Latin America - Independence
Congress of Vienna – Remade Europe After Napoleon
Why Industrial Revolution started in England
• Abundant natural resources
• Advanced Technology• Surplus of food• Stable economic and
political conditions• Irregular coastline• Surplus workers from
rural areas• Rivers and extensive
canal systems
James Watts Invented Steam Engine
Marx= Marxism =
• History is class struggle• Workers will eventually
overthrow capitalists• Critical of the Industrial
Revolution and its problems
• Soviet Union became the world’s first socialist country
The Rise of Middle Class /Bourgeois
Workers formed Union to Fight for Their Rights
Irish Potato Famine
Imperialism/ White Man’s Burden
German Unification/Bismarck
Nationalism - German and Italian Unification