Description Summary This lesson traces the long-range and short-range forces that eventually exploded into the English Civil War. Especially interesting are a list of cu
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Description Summary This lesson focuses on Louis XIV's aggressive foreign policy and Europe's response to it: at first the stalwart resistance of the Dutch, and later the
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Description Summary This 107 slide PowerPoint provides a visual tour of the palace and grounds of Versailles. Its main points of focus are the Sun King's daily schedule
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Description Summary Early life, Colbert's economic reforms (including a discussion of mercantilism) and their effects, Louvois' military reforms, and Louis' expulsion of
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Description Summary There are two things I like about this lesson. One is the process of how Richelieu sidestepped the nobility by creating a new corps of royal governor
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Description Summary Also known as the Revolt of the Spanish Netherlands or the Eighty Years War, this lesson recounts the long struggle for independence from Spain by the
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Description Summary If Napoleon's primary importance was spreading the ideas of the French Revolution, that begs the question: how specifically did those ideas spread and
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Description Summary While this lesson does cover Napoleon's early career and battles, it also takes a side trip into the culture of the times, showing how revolutions aff
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Description Summary This lesson tracks the reasons for China's difficulties, especially in its relations with the West in the 1800s, culminating with the founding of Sun
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Description Summary This lesson focuses on how Camillo Cavour, prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, in the aftermath of the failed revolutions of 1848, masterminded
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Description Summary This lesson starts with an overview of Indian art and architecture during the Mughal period preceding the arrival of the British. It then traces how
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Description Summary This lesson analyzes the forces that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the unique nature of warfare in the Pacific and the critical role of
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Description Summary This lesson analyzes the forces that led to World War II with focuses on events in Asia and how the Western democracies' policy of appeasement helped
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Description Summary This lesson focuses on the forces leading to the rise of Fascism in Italy, Mussolini's personality cult (especially in the PowerPoint, and how much of
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Description Summary This lesson focuses on the economic and psychological factors that allowed Fascism to take over Germany, the tactics the Nazis used to do so, and the
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