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The Acceleration of Global Contact | |
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The Indian Ocean: Hub of an Afro-Eurasian Trading World | |
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People and Cultures | |
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Religious Revolutions | |
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Trade and Commerce | |
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European Discovery, Reconnaissance, and Expansion | |
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Causes of European Expanision | |
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Technological Stimuli to Exploration | |
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The Portuguese Overseas Empire | |
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Individuals in Society: Zheng He | |
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The Problem of Christopher Columbus | |
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New World Conquest | |
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The Impact of Contact | |
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Colonial Administration | |
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The Columbian Exchange | |
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Spanish Settlement and Indigenous Population Decline | |
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Sugar and Slavery | |
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Global Trade Networks | |
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The Chinese and Japanese Discovery of the West | |
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The World-Wide Economic Effects of Spanish Silver | |
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Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Europe, ca 1589-1725 | |
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Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding | |
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Economic and Demographic Crisis | |
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The Return of Serfdom in the East | |
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The Thirty Years' War | |
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Seventeenth-Century State-Building: Common | |
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Obstacles and Achievements | |
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Absolutism in France and Spain | |
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The Foundations of Absolutism: Henry IV, Sully, and Richelieu | |
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Louis XIV and Absolutism | |
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Financial and Economic Management Under Louis XIV: 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 Eastern Europe: Austria, Prussia, and Russia | |
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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 Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow | |
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Tsar and People to 1689 | |
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The Reforms of Peter the Great | |
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Constitutionalism | |
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Absolutist Claims in England (1603-1649) | |
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Religious Divides | |
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Puritanical Absolutism in England: Cromwell and the Protectorate | |
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The Restoration of the English Monarchy | |
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The Triumph of England's Parliament: Constitutional Monarchy and Cabinet Government | |
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The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century | |
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Individuals in Society: Gl�¼ckel of Hameln | |