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• World History: The Early Modern Period
• Startup
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  • About
• Course guide
  • Overview
  • Course aims and learning outcomes
  • Syllabus
  • Set up your personal learning environment
  • Assessment options
  • Recommended resources
• Interactions
  • Course announcements
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    • Instructions for Session 0
    • Instructions for Session 1
    • Instructions for Session 2
    • Instructions for Session 3
    • Instructions for Session 4
    • Instructions for Session 5
    • Instructions for Session 6
    • Instructions for Session 7
    • Instructions for Session 8
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• Learning pathways
  • The Atlantic World in the 1600s
    • Overview
    • The sixteenth century
    • Global networks of exchange
    • European colonization
    • The slave trade and the expanding Atlantic economy
    • Visualizing the slave trade
    • Demographic shifts and settlement patterns
    • Spain and Portugal's global connections
    • Review
  • Global Trade: Europe, the Middle East and Asia
    • Overview
    • Trading networks and state monopolies
    • Commodities and commerce
    • The impact of British trade with India
    • Review
  • The Impact of Global Trade
    • Overview
    • A changing balance of power in Europe
    • A shifting economic relationship between East and West
    • Emerging patterns of production and consumption
    • The ecological impact of global exchange
    • Review
  • Changing Political Systems and Colonial Conflicts
    • Overview
    • The rise of absolutist political systems
    • The rise of absolutist monarchies in Europe
    • Gunpowder and warfare
    • Colonial warfare in the Americas
    • The growing dominance of Northern European states
    • Review
  • Absolutist Political Systems
    • Overview
    • European absolutism
    • 'On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy'
    • Absolutism and the State in Europe
    • Absolutism in the Middle East
    • Absolutism in Asia
    • Challenges to absolutism
    • The English Civil War
    • Review
  • Reformation and Counter-reformation in Europe
    • Overview
    • Renaissance and Reformation
    • Martin Luther
    • Political impact of the Reformation
    • The Reformation and European Politics
    • Counter-reformation
    • Review
  • The Spread of Islam in Africa, the Middle East and Asia
    • Overview
    • The Spread of Islam to Asia
    • The Spread of Islam to Africa
    • The Political and Cultural Impact of Islam
    • Review
  • The Enlightenment
    • Overview
    • The origins of the Enlightenment
    • The European dream of Progress
    • Science and the Enlightenment
    • The impact of the Enlightenment
    • Enlightenment philosophers: Rousseau
    • Enlightenment philosophers: Locke
    • Review
  • Political Revolutions
    • Overview
    • Introduction to the French Revolution
    • The French Revolution
    • The American Revolution
    • 'Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession'
    • The French and American Revolutions compared
    • Early 19th century revolutionary movements
    • Nationalism
    • Liberalism
    • Review
  • Scientific and Industrial Revolutions
    • Overview
    • The Scientific Revolution in Europe
    • Origins of the Scientific Revolution
    • The social impact of the Scientific Revolution
    • The political impact of the Scientific Revolution
    • The Industrial Revolution
    • The origins of the Industrial Revolution
    • The impact of the Industrial Revolution in Europe
    • 'The Philosophy of Manufacturers'
    • The global impact of the Industrial Revolution
    • Review