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European Exploration and Conquest 1450-1650 | |
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World Contacts Before Columbus | |
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The Trade World of the Indian Ocean | |
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The Trading States of Africa | |
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The Ottoman and Persian Empires | |
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Genoese and Venetian Middlemen | |
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The European Voyages of Discovery | |
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Causes of European Expansion | |
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Technology and the Rise of Exploration | |
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The Portuguese Overseas Empire | |
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The Problem of Christopher Columbus | |
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Later Explorers | |
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Spanish Conquest in the New World | |
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Early French and English Settlement in the New World | |
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The Impact of Conquest | |
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Colonial Administration | |
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Impact of European Settlement on the Lives of Indigenous Peoples | |
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Life in the Colonies | |
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The Columbian Exchange | |
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Europe and the World After Columbus | |
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Sugar and Slavery | |
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Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects | |
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The Birth of the Global Economy | |
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Changing Attitudes and Beliefs | |
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New Ideas About Race | |
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Michel de Montaigne and Cultural Curiosity | |
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William Shakespeare and His Influence | |
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Looking Back, Looking Ahead | |
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Chapter Review | |
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Listening to the Past: Columbus Describes His First Voyage | |
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Living in the Past: Foods of the Columbian Exchange | |
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Individuals in Society: Juan de Pareja | |
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Absolutism and Constitutionalism ca. 1589-1725 | |
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Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding | |
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Peasant Life in the Midst of Economic Crisis | |
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The Return of Serfdom in the East | |
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The Thirty Years' War | |
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Achievements in State-Building | |
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Warfare and the Growth of Army Size | |
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Popular Political Action | |
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Absolutism in France and Spain | |
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The Foundations of Absolutism | |
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Louis XIV and Absolutism | |
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Life at Versailles | |
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French Financial Management Under Colbert | |
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Louis XIV's Wars | |
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The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century | |
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Absolutism in Austria and Prussia | |
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The Austrian Habsburgs | |
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Prussia in the Seventeenth Century | |
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The Consolidation of Prussian Absolutism | |
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The Development of Russia and the Ottoman Empire | |
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The Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow | |
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The Tsar and People | |
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The Reforms of Peter the Great | |
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The Growth of the Ottoman Empire | |
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Alternatives to Absolutism in England and the Dutch Republic | |
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Absolutist Claims in England | |
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Religious Divides and the English Civil War | |
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Cromwell and Puritanical Absolutism in England | |
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The Restoration of the English Monarchy | |
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Constitutional Monarchy and Cabinet Government | |
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The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century | |
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Baroque Art and Music | |
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Looking Back, Looking Ahead | |
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Chapter Review | |
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Living in the Past: The Absolutist Palace | |
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Listening to the Past: A German Account of Russian Life | |
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Individuals in Society: Gl�¼ckel of Hameln | |