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1 min read•june 11, 2020
Jillian Holbrook
Dylan Black
1648: Peace of Westphalia
1660: Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan
1682: Peter the Great’s reign begins
1685: Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes
1688: John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government, Glorious Revolution
1707: England and Scotland join under the Act of Union
1713: Treaty of Utrecht
1756-1763: Seven Years’ War
1789: Tennis Court Oath, Storming of the Bastille, Women’s march on Versailles
1792: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women
1793: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are executed
1794: Fall of Robespierre and the Jacobins
1804: Napoleon crowned Emperor of France
1814: The Congress of Vienna
1815: Napoleon escapes Elba (March 15), is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo (June 18), and gets re-exiled to St. Helena
A growing global economy had long lasting effects
Commercial competition
Seven Years’ War
Mercantilism → Maximized exports and profits → Minimized imports
Effects of challenging political order
England’s Civil War → Glorious Revolution
Asserted the rights of Parliament
French Revolution → Reign of Terror → Rise of Napoleon
Congress of Vienna met for to re-establish European order
The Scientific Revolution clashed with Romanticism
Scientific Revolution:
Logic, skepticism, observation, reasoning
Romanticism:
Art, passion, nationalism, emotion
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