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War of Spanish Succession

Peace of Utrecht

Frederick William I of Prussia

Louis XV

  • Great-grandson of Louis XV
  • Absolutism reversed = Duke of Orleans = parlements could evaluate royal decrees
  • War of Austrian Succession & Seven Years' War = $ problems = failed tax proposal
  • Madame de Pompadour = bourgeois mistress = Voltaire, rococo, Austria = desacralization

Maria Theresa of Austria

  • Absolutist
  • Son = Joseph II = Enlightened Absolutist
  • War of Austrian Succession = limited pope's influence, strengthened central bureaucracy/revamped tax system, improved agricultural population

Frederick the Great of Prussia

Seven Years' War

Partition of Poland

Catherine the Great

  • German empress of Russia
  • Enlightened Absolutist = westernized, new law codes, expanded territory

French Revolution

  • Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette = Estates General = Tennis Court Oath = National Assembly = Declaration of the Rights of Man
  • Storming of the Bastille, March on Versailles
  • Great Fear
  • Jacobins vs. Girondans vs. Sans-Culottes = Reign of Terror = Robespierre = dechristianization = Thermidorian Reaction
  • Napoleon

American Revolution

  • Declaration of Independence
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Checks & Balances
  • Federal System
  • U.S. Bill of Rights
  • George Washington
  • King George III

Slave insurrection in Saint-Domingue

Government

Foundation of St. Petersburg

Last appearance of Bubonic Plague in Western Europe

Growth of European population

Growth of illegitimate births in Western Europe

Industrial Revolution

  • Began in GB
  • Causes: Agricultural Revolution, Enclosure Movement, Urban Migration, Technology
  • Cottage Industry leads to Factory System: factors of production, entrepeneur, assembly line
  • Technology: flying shuttle, steam engine, waterframe, spinning jenny, cotton gin, telegraph, steal

Serfdom abolished in France

Society & Letters

Fourier

Papacy dissolves Jesuits

Rousseau,

The Social Contract

Hume, The Natural History of Religion

Smith,

Wealth of Nations

  • laissez-faire capitalism

Kant, What is Enlightenment

  • German
  • Against skepticism, for reason

Malthus

Wollstonecraft,

Vindication of the Rights of Women

Reorganization of church in France

Religion & Philosophy

Steam Engine

Crop Rotation

Water Frame

Spinning Jenny

Steam Engine

Jenner

Science & Technology

  • English Romantic Poet

Encyclopedia

Classical Style

Romanticism

Arts & Letters

  • GB vs. France & Spain
  • France lost Canada & Louisiana but retained West Indies
  • AKA French & Indian War
  • Louis XIV's grandson = king of Spain
  • Exchange = land & no dual monarchy
  • Russia, Prussia, Austria divided = no sovereignty
  • Conflict involving Louis XIV's grandson & the kingdom of Spain
  • Soldiers' King = conscription
  • Absolutist = strong bureaucracy * social order
  • Enlightened Absolutist
  • "Servant of the State" = religious & educational reform

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Enclosure Movement in England

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French utopian socialist

  • Essay on the Principle of Population
  • Population growth = bad
  • Against Poor Laws = if raise wages, people will have more children, use more resources, then same problems will exist

Monstesquieu, The Spirit of Laws

Separation of power = checks & balances

Wesley

18th Century

Methodism

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1st Vaccine

Arkwright

Townsend

promotes industrial breakthroughs

Hargreave

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Wordsworth

Diderot & d'Alembert

  • Mozart
  • Beethoven

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