World history/WHME101


 * World History: The Early Modern Period
 * Startup
 * Start here
 * About
 * Course guide
 * Overview
 * Course aims and learning outcomes
 * Syllabus
 * Set up your personal learning environment
 * Assessment options
 * Recommended resources
 * Interactions
 * Course announcements
 * How announcements work
 * 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
 * Course feed
 * 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