Early+Modern+and+Modern+World+History

'Early Modern and Modern World History' is an obligatory course for students in International Relations (BA) and an elective course for other students (e.g. ERASMUS exchange students) at CUB.

Read the official course syllabus here: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/adatlap/7nk40nck79b.pdf

= = =1) Introduction= > watch the video: https://youtu.be/jk3wNadYA7k
 * technical information
 * course requirements, remember to send your paper (ca 10 pages) by **December 15** by email!
 * use of primary and secondary sources, plagiarism
 * literature - books available in CUB central library and bookshop, see other libraries, e.g. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ELTE University Library, CEU
 * internet resources (JSTOR, Google Books, Gutenberg Project, etc.)
 * course contents, chronology, major topics
 * 14th-century political thought: Allegories of Good and Bad Government by A. Lorenzetti in Siena,

=2-3) Sailing ships, navigation, and sea-trade=
 * Europe and the sea - geographical features
 * China on sea until the 15th century
 * development of sailing ships 1400-1800
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_WH_sailing.pdf
 * navigation techniques
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_EH_navigation.ppt
 * sea-trade
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_EH_seatrade.pdf

=4) World maps=
 * the Old World: Europe, Asia, Africa
 * geographical discoveries
 * the New World
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_WH_worldmaps.pdf
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_WH_exploration.pdf

=5) States and empires= > see the video 'The History of the World' on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-6Wu0Q7x5D0
 * Emerging and declining states and empires
 * see the course notes: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_WH_empires.pdf
 * Japan
 * Korea

= 6) Ming and Qing China =

= 7) Russia =

=8) Islam empires=
 * Ottoman Empire
 * Safavid Iran
 * Mughal India

=9) Ottoman wars in Europe=
 * Ottoman-Hungarian wars in the 15th century
 * Ottoman-Polish wars, 1485-1503
 * Suleyman the Magnificent and wars in Hungary, 1520-1566
 * watch the movie 'The Lost Talisman'

=10-11) The Habsburgs, 15-16th centuries=

=12) Latin America=

=13-14) Italy, France and England, 15-16th centuries=

=15) Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648=

=16) Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 and Franco-Spanish War, 1635-1659=

=17) Wars of Louis XIV of France=
 * War of Devolution, 1667-1668
 * Franco-Dutch War, 1672-1678
 * Scanian War, 1679
 * War of Reunions, 1683-1684
 * War at Barbary Coast and Genoa, 1684
 * Nine Years' War, 1688-1697
 * War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714

=18) England, 17th century=
 * Stuart England
 * English Civil War(s), Commonwealth and Protectorate
 * Restoration
 * Anglo-Dutch Wars
 * Glorious Revolution
 * Union, 1707

=19-20) Central and Northern Europe, 18th century=
 * regional divisions of Europe
 * Central, Northern and Eastern Europe
 * Habsburg-Ottoman Wars, 17-18th century
 * Great Northern War, 1700-1721
 * War of the Polish Succession, 1733-1738
 * War of the Habsburg Succession, 1740-1748
 * Italy, 18th century
 * 'Renversement des alliances' 1756
 * Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
 * War of the Bavarian Succession, 1778-1779
 * Partitions of Poland, 1772, 1793, and 1795

=21) Political Thought, 16-18th centuries=
 * Beginnings of modern political thought
 * N. Machiavelli, The Prince
 * G. Bruno
 * Utopia
 * T. More (Morus), Utopia
 * T. Campanella, The City of the Sun
 * F. Bacon, The New Atlantis
 * Sovereignty and international law
 * J. Bodin, Six Books of the Commonwealth
 * H. Grotius, On the Laws of War and Peace
 * T. Hobbes, Leviathan
 * The Enlightenment
 * B. Mandeville
 * Montesquieu
 * 'Enlightened absolutism or despotism'
 * Radical Enlightenment
 * J-J. Rousseau
 * A. Smith

=22) The United States of America=
 * Declaration of Independence, 1776
 * Constitution, 1787/88
 * B. Franklin
 * T. Jefferson

=23-24) French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars; Congress of Vienna=

=25) War and Diplomacy=
 * The Military Revolution

**26) Africa, 16-18th centuries**