The Scientific Revolution
Andreas Vesalius conducted dissections to produce the well-illustrated anatomy book On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543).
The Enlightenment
Salons were polite social gatherings hosted by ladies to share and discuss Enlightenment ideas.
The Enlightenment
The English Civil War
King Charles I was beheaded on January 30, 1649 following the English Civil War, a power struggle between the monarch and the English Parliament.
The American Revolution
Boston silversmith Paul Revere engraved this image of the 1770 Boston Massacre that fueled anti-British sentiment in the American colonies.
The American Revolution
- 1651 Navigation Act
- French and Indian War – consequences for American colonists?
- Stamp Act
- “No taxation without representation.”
- Boston Tea Party – consequences?
- Lexington and Concord
- George Washington
- Declaration of Independence
- Why did Louis XVI aid American rebels?
- Yorktown
- Articles of Confederation
- Constitutional Convention
The French Revolution
Angry French citizens stormed the Palace of Versailles in October 1789, kidnapped King Louis XVI, and forced him to return to Paris. In this image, the heads of Louis XVI's murdered palace guards are paraded by the crowd atop pikes.
The French Revolution
- Old Regime
- Estates-General
- Bourgeoisie
- Why was the Estates-General called to meet?
- National Assembly
- Tennis Court Oath
- Storming of the Bastille
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- Slogan of the Revolution?
- Constitution of 1791
- Radicals/Moderates/Conservatives – where did each sit and what did each want?
- Why did Prussia invade France?
- Jacobins
- National Guard
- Committee of Public Safety
- The Directory
Napoleonic Europe
Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor of the French in 1804. For a brief while, he dominated the European continent and led the largest empire in Europe since the days of Rome.