The Early Modern Period

The articles listed below will intend to describe the transition of the world that occurred between the end of the Thirty-Years’ War in 1648 and the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. This latter event would truly inaugurate modern times, which are fleshed out in the two remaining semesters of reading which follow this.

The English Civil War
The English Protectorate
The Fronde Civil Wars
Restoration England
Scientific Discoveries
European Conquest of the Americas
The Great Turkish War
The Glorious Revolution
Louis XIV
John Wesley
Ottoman Decline
Frederick the Great
The Little Ice Age Recedes
Great Explorations
The Seven Years' War
The Industrial Revolution
The American Revolution