History 5
Western Civilization Since 1500
Instructor: Dino E. Buenviaje
E-mail: dino.buenviaje@rcc.edu

 

SYLLABUS

 

Lectures
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The Origins of the West  
The Protestant Reformation and the Religious Wars.ppt  
The Struggle between Constitutional Government and Absolute Monarchies  
The Rise of Absolute Monarchy in France  
The Scientific Revolution  
Eighteenth Century European Diplomacy and the Balance of Power  
The Atlantic Economy and the Slave Trade.ppt  
The Age of Enlightenment  
Enlightened Absolutism  
Eighteenth Century European Society  
The French Revolution  
The French Revolution v.2  
The Napoleonic Wars  
The Post-Napoleonic Order  
Nineteenth Century Europe and the Age of the "Isms"  
The Revolution of 1848  
The Rise of the Nation-State  
Late Nineteenth Century European Thought and Society  
Late Nineteenth Century European Imperialism  
World War I  
Post World War I Europe  
The Great Depression and the Causes of World War II  
World War II and the Holocaust  
The Cold War  
The End of the Cold War and After  

 

Links to Maps
1500
Europe 1500
Religious Map of Europe at the time of the Protestant Reformation
The Ottoman Empire
1600
Europe 1600
Europe after Treaty of Westphalia 1648
England's Kings and Queens
1700
Europe 1700
1800
Europe 1800
The Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Waterloo Game
Europe under Napoleon vs. Europe after the Congress of Vienna
German Unification 1860-1871
Africa 1886
Africa 1914
1900
Europe 1900
Europe 1914
The World in 1914
The Western Front
Europe after the Treaty of Versailles
Proposed Partition of the Middle East under Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916
Post World War I Middle East
German Expansion 1936-39
Europe World War II
Japanese Expansion 1894-1941
Asia World War II
Allied Campaigns during World War II
Interactive Maps of the Cold War
2000
Europe 2000
Current Map of the World

 

 
 

 

People and Terms
The Protestant Reformation and the Religious Wars
The Struggle between Absolute and Constitutional Monarchies
The Scientific Revolution
Eighteenth Century Diplomacy and the Balance of Power
The Agricultural Revolution
The Age of Enlightenment
The French Revolution
The Napoleonic Wars
The Post-Napoleonic Order
The Industrial and Other Nineteenth Century Revolutions
The Rise of the Nation-State
Late Nineteenth Century European Society
Late Nineteenth Century European Culture
World War I
Post-World War I Europe
The Great Depression and World War II
The Cold War and the Present

 

Links
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The Louvre Museum
The National Gallery of Art
The Smithsonian Institution
The Imperial War Museum
The Museum of Tolerance
The National Archives
University of California, Riverside History Department
University of California, Irvine History Department
California State University, Fullerton History Department