Trade, Communes, Humanism, Gutenberg printing press, art
Trade with Indian Ocean and Africa, Portuguese dominance (caravel), Columbian exchange and colonies, Spanish bullion crash, Montaigne and Shakespeare critique
Luther, Habsuburgs, Henry VIII, Council of Trent, Witch hunt
Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, Enlightened Absolutism
30 years war, Louis XIV and absolutism, Prussia, Austrian Habsburg, Tsars, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, English Civil War, British Restoration, Constitutional Monarchy in Netherlands
Mercantilism, Colonialism, Columbian Exchange, Population boom
American Revolution (impact), French Revolution, Napoleon
Factories, and 1st Industrial Rev
Liberalism, Nationalism, Romanticism, pre 1848 liberation movements (Greece), Spring of Nations
Public Health (bacterial revolution), Haussman's Paris, middle class and leisure time, Darwin, Realism
Napoleon, Italy, Bismarck, Russia modernizes, Socialist International
Freud, new Physics, Bauhauss, Mass culture, Nietzsche, stream of consciousness, Great Depression, economic crisis and unemployment
WWI, total war
Totalitarianism, Fascism, Authoritarianism, Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Holocaust, Allied victory
Space race, Consumerism, De-Stalinazation, Decolonization, 2nd Wave feminism, Environmental movement, Detente, Gorbachev, Collapse of Soviet Union
Econ shock therapy, Digital Age, ethnic diversity, War on Terror, environmental problems, human rights