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Vocabulary and Terminology

• ATRA MORS
• STATUTE OF LABORER
• VERNACULAR
• CHARLES UNIVERSITY
• BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY
• CONCILIAR MOVEMENT
• JACQUERIE
• FUR-COLLAR CRIME
• INTERNATIONAL STYLE
• MEDICI DYNASTY
• BALANCE OF POWER (ITALY)
• HUMANISM
• MOVABLE TYPE
• OFFICE OF THE NIGHT
• STAR CHAMBER
• CONVERSOS, MARRANOS OR "NEW CHRISTIANS"
• NEW MONARCHS
• RENAISSANCE
• COMMUNES
• POPOLO
• SIGNORI
• OLIGARCHY
• SECULARISM
• NORTHERN HUMANISM
• RECONQUISTA
• HERMANDADES
• DIET OF SPEYER
• BRETHREN OF THE COMMON LIFE
• PREDESTINATION
• INDULGENCE
• PRIESTHOOD OF ALL BELIEVERS
• ANABAPTISTS
• PURITANS
• COUNCIL OF TRENT
• URSULINE ORDER
• PROTESTANT
• TRANSUBSTANTIATION
• CONSUBSTANTIATION
• HABSBURG-VALOIS WARS
• DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES
• PRESBYTERS
• THE SOCIETY OF JESUS
• DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY
• CARAVEL
• SPANISH ARMADA
• WAR OF THE THREE HENRYS
• HUGUENOTS
• NOBILITY OF THE ROBE
• DEFENESTRATION OF PRAGUE
• COUNCIL OF BLOOD
• ASTROLABE
• GALLEYS
• MUNDUS NOVUS
• SABBATS
• MISOGYNY
• ESSAY
• BAROQUE
• ABSOLUTISM
• SOVEREIGN
• ADMINISTRATIVE MONARCHY
• "L'ETAT, C'EST MOI!"
• WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION
• NAVIGATION ACT
• FRONDE
• BILL OF RIGHTS
• STADHOLDER
• "SHIP MONEY"
• FRENCH ACADEMY
• JOINT-STOCK COMPANY
• PAULETTE
• GENERALITES
• RAISON D'ETAT
• "THE GRAND CENTURY"
• MERCANTILISM
• FRENCH CLASSICISM
• LEAGUE OF AUGSBURG
• SERVICIOS
• CONSTITUTIONALISM
• FRANCHISE
• "THE PROTECTORATE"
• "CABAL"
• THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
• ROBOT
• JUNKERS
• "PRUSSIAN SPIRIT"
• TSAR (CZAR)
• JANISSARY CORPS
• MONGOL YOKE
• SERVICE NOBILITY
• SOUL TAX
• THIRD ROME
• COSSACKS
• GRESHAM COLLEGE
• SCIENTIFIC METHOD
• INDUCTIVE REASONING
• DEDUCTIVE REASONING
• EMPIRICISM
• PHILOSOPHES
• "GENERAL WILL"
• SALONS
• EUROPEAN WAR OF AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION
• "FAMINE FOODS"
• FALLOW
• THE GLEANERS
• INVISIBLE HAND
• PUTTING-OUT SYSTEM
• PLANTATION AGRICULTURE
• ASIENTO
• SEVEN YEARS' WAR
• ATLANTIC ECONOMY
• TRIANGLE TRADE
• DEBT PEONAGE
• OPEN-FIELD SYSTEM
• AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
• WETNURSING
• NUCLEAR AND EXTENDED FAMILY
• "JUST PRICE"
• SCURVY
• MIDWIFE
• BLOOD-LETTING
• WHITE BREAD
• CARNIVAL
• LUNATIC
• PIETISM
• PROTESTANT REVIVAL (18TH CENTURY)

• FIRST ESTATE
• SECOND ESTATE
• THIRD ESTATE
• BOURGEOISIE
• OLD REGIME
• ESTATES GENERAL
• TENNIS COURT OATH
• GREAT FEAR
• CAHIERS
• NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
• WOMEN'S MARCH ON VERSAILLES
• ASSIGNATS
• JACOBINS
• SEPTEMBER MASSACRES
• GIRONDISTS
• MOUNTAIN (MONTAGNARDS)
• SANS-CULOTTES
• COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY
• "BREAD OF EQUALITY"
• REIGN OF TERROR
• THERMIDORIAN REACTION
• THE DIRECTORY
• FIRST COALITION
• SECOND COALITION
• THIRD COALITION
• FOURTH COALITION
• GRAND EMPIRE
• GRAND ARMY/GREAT ARMY
• QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE
• COTTON-SPINNING JENNY
• PUDDLING FURNACE
• WATERFRAME
• THE ROCKET
• CRYSTAL PALACE
• CREDIT MOBILIER
• "IRON LAW OF WAGES"
• GRAND NATIONAL CONSOLIDATED TRADES UNION
• CONGRESS OF VIENNA
• CONSERVATISM
• MAGYARS
• LIBERALISM
• NATIONALISM
• CARBONARI
• UTOPIAN SOCIALISM
• ROMANTICISM
• STURM UND DRANG
• "BATTLE OF PETERLOO"
• WHIGS
• TORIES
• CHARTIST MOVEMENT
• FRANKFURT ASSEMBLY
• MIASMATIC THEORY OF DISEASE
• GERM THEORY
• ILLEGITIMACY EXPLOSION
• GERMAN CONFEDERATION
• ZOLLVEREIN
• SCHLEWIG-HOLSTEIN
• MODERNIZATION
• ZEMSTVO
• BLOODY SUNDAY
• THE DUMA
• REICHSTAG
• KULTURKAMPF
• PARIS COMMUNE
• DREYFUS AFFAIR
• IRISH HOME RULE
• FIRST INTERNATIONAL
• MAY DAY
• SECOND INTERNATIONAL
• REVISIONISM
• THE GREAT MIGRATION
• IMPERIALISM
• BOERS AFRIKANERS
• NEW IMPERIALISM
• WHITE MAN'S BURDEN
• THREE EMPEROR'S LEAGUE
• THE BLACK HAND
• "BLANK CHECK"
• THE SCHIEFFEN PLAN
• TRENCH WARFARE
• TRIPLE ENTENTE
• LUSITANIA
• HOME FRONT
• TOTAL WAR EFFORT
• BOLSHEVIKS
• REDS
• WHITES
• LEAGUE OF NATIONS
• FOURTEEN POINTS
• RHINELAND
• LOGICAL EMPIRICISM
• EXISTENTIALISM
• THEORY OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY
• FUNCTIONALISM
• CUBISM
• REALISM
• DADAISM
• THE DAWES PLAN
• NEW DEAL
• WEIMAR REPUBLIC
• TOTALITARIANISM
• FASCISM
• NAZI
• SS
• GESTAPO
• "SPACE AND RACE"
• FUHRER
• KRISTALLNACHT
• BLITZKRIEG
• BLACKSHIRTS
• N.E.P
• FIVE YEAR PLAN
• COLLECTIVIZATION
• KULAKS
• GREAT PURGES
• HOLOCAUST
• YALTA CONFERENCE
• POTSDAM CONFERENCE
• IRON CURTAIN
• TRUMAN DOCTRINE
• MARSHALL PLAN
• NATO
• WARSAW PACT
• BERLIN AIRLIFT
• COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY
• EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OR "COMMON MARKET"
• DECOLONIZATION
• BLOC
• COLD WAR
• DESTALINIZATION
• BREZHNEV DOCTRINE
• BERLIN WALL
• DETENTE
• OPEC
• SOLDARITY
• PERESTROIKA
• GLASNOST

People

• CHRISTINE DE PISAN
• JOAN OF ARC
• EDWARD III
• JOHN WYCLIF
• FRANCOIS VILLON
• DANTE ALIGHIERI
• GEOFFREY CHAUCER
• LAURA CERETA
• FRANCESCO PETRARCH
• GENTILE BELLINI
• NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
• FRANCOIS RABELAIS
• JEROME BOSCH
• MICHELANGELO
• LORENZO DE MEDICI
• SAVONAROLA
• PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA
• GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
• LEONARDO DA VINCI
• RAPHAEL
• GIOTTO
• BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
• JOHANN GUTENBERG
• THOMAS MORE
• DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
• JAN VAN EYCK
• ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN
• CHARLES VII OF FRANCE
• LOUIS XI OF FRANCE
• EDWARD IV, RICHARD III AND HENRY VII (ALL OF ENGLAND)
• CATHERINE OF ARAGON
• JOHN KNOX
• GUSTAVUS VASA
• IGNATIUS LOYOLA
• GIOVANNI DE MEDICI
• MARTIN LUTHER
• ULRICH ZWINGLI
• JOHN CALVIN
• HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR CHARLES V
• MICHAEL SERVETUS
• WILLIAM TYNDALE
• HENRY VIII OF ENGLAND
• ANN BOLEYN
• ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND
• JANE SEYMOUR
• MARY TUDOR
• THOMAS CROMWELL
• THOMAS CRANMER
• MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
• PETER PAUL RUBENS
• HENRY II THE NAVIGATOR
• GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS
• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
• HERNANDO CORTEZ
• HENRY III OF FRANCE
• PRINCE WILLIAM OF ORANGE
• FERDINAND AND ISABELLA OF SPAIN
• CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
• FERDINAND MAGELLAN
• FRANCISCO PIZARRO
• JOHN CABOT
• EDMUND SPENSER
• CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
• JEAN-BAPTISTE COLBERT
• MOLIERE
• FRANCOIS LE TELLIER, MARQUIS DE LOUVOIS
• MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
• HENRY IV OF FRANCE
• MAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE, DUKE OF SULLY (SULLY)
• CARDINAL RICHELIEU
• LOUIS XIII OF FRANCE
• JULES MAZARIN
• LOUIS XIV OF FRANCE
• JACQUES MARQUETTE
• LOUIS JOLIET
• JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND, JAMES I OF ENGLAND
• CHARLES I OF ENGLAND
• THOMAS HOBBES
• OLIVER CROMWELL
• CHARLES II OF ENGLAND
• WILLIAM PENN
• JAMES II OF ENGLAND
• JOHN LOCKE
• CHARLES VI (HABSBURG)
• MICAHEL ROMANOV
• STENKA RAZIN
• FREDERICK WILLIAM THE GREAT ELECTOR
• FREDERICK WILLIAM I, "THE SOLDIERS' KING"
• JENGHIZ KHAN
• IVAN I, "IVAN MONEYBAGS"
• IVAN IV, "IVAN THE TERRIBLE"
• ANASTASIA
• PETER THE GREAT
• NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
• JOHANNES KEPLER
• BERNARD DE FONTENELLE
• JOSEPH II
• MONTESQUIEU
• DENIS DIDEROT
• MADAME DU CHATELET
• DAVID HUME
• JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
• EMELIAN PUGACHEV
• TYCHO BRAHE
• GALILEO GALILEI
• ISAAC NEWTON
• FRANCIS BACON
• RENES DESCARTES
• PIERRE BAYLE
• VOLTAIRE
• IMMANUEL KANT
• FREDERICK THE GREAT OF PRUSSIA
• MARIA THERESA
• CATHERINE THE GREAT OF RUSSIA
• LOUIS XV OF FRANCE
• CHARLES TOWNSEND
• JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET
• JETHRO TULL
• ADAM SMITH
• DANIEL DEFOE
• EDWARD JENNER
• JOHN WESLEY

• LOUIS XV
• LOUIS XVI
• MARIE ANTOINETTE
• ABBE EMMANUEL JOSEPH SIEYES
• MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
• JACQUES LOUIS DAVID
• MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE
• EDMUND BURKE
• MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
• OLYMPE DE GOUGES
• GEORGES JACQUES DANTON
• JACQUES ROUX
• NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
• POPE PIUS VII
• LORD NELSON
• LOUIS XVIII
• JAMES HARGREAVES
• EDMUND CARTWRIGHT
• JAMES WATT
• JAMES NASMYTH
• HENRY CORT
• GEORGE STEPHENSON
• JOSEPH M. W. TURNER
• CLAUDE MONET
• THOMAS MALTHUS
• DAVID RICARDO
• FRIEDRICH LIST
• HONORE DAUMIER
• WILLIAM BLAKE
• WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
• FRIEDRICH ENGELS
• KARL MARX
• ROBERT OWEN
• PRINCE KLEMENS VON METTERNICH
• ROBERT CASTLEREAGH
• ADAM SMITH
• GIUSEPPE MAZZINI
• COUNT HENRI DE SAINT-SIMON
• LOUIS BLANC
• CHARLES FOURIER
• THEODORE GERICAULT
• JOHN CONSTABLE
• SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
• JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
• WALTER SCOTT
• VICTOR HUGO
• FREDERIC CHOPIN
• EUGENE DELACROIX
• FRANZ LISZT
• NICOLO PAGANINI
• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
• GERMAINE DE STAEL
• CHARLES X OF FRANCE
• LOUIS PHILIPPE
• FRANCIS JOSEPH OF AUSTRIA
• NICHOLAS I OF RUSSIA
• KING FREDERICK WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA
• EDWIN CHADWICK
• JEREMY BENTHAM
• LOUIS PASTEUR
• JOSEPH LISTER
• NAPOLEON III
• GEORGES HAUSSMANN
• HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
• GUSTAVE DROZ
• FEODOR DOSTOEVSKI
• SIGMUND FREUD
• AUGUSTE COMTE
• JEAN BAPTISTE LAMARCK
• CHARLES DARWIN
• EMILE ZOLA
• HONORE DE BALZAC
• GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
• GEORGE ELIOT
• LEO TOLSTOY
• GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI
• CAMILLO DI CAVOUR
• OTTO VON BISMARCK
• ALEXANDER II OF RUSSIA
• ALEXANDER III OF RUSSIA
• SERGEI WITTE
• NICHOALS II OF RUSSIA
• EMPEROR WILLIAM II
• CAPTAIN ALFRED DREYFUS
• JOHN STUART MILL
• BENJAMIN DISRAELI
• WILLIAM GLADSTONE
• DR. KARL LUEGER
• EDWARD BERNSTEIN
• ROBERT FULTON
• COMMODORE MATTHEW PERRY
• MUHAMMAD ALI OF EGYPT
• CECIL RHODES
• RUDYARD KIPLING
• JOSEPH CONRAD
• DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
• ARCHDUKE FRANCIS FERDINAND
• GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
• WOODROW WILSON
• RASPUTIN
• VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN
• LEON TROTSKY
• FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
• GEORGES SOREL
• JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
• ALBERT CAMUS
• SOREN KIERKEGAARD
• ALBERT EINSTEIN
• EDVARD MUNCH
• VIRGINIA WOOLF
• JAMES JOYCE
• T. S. ELIOT
• CLAUDE MONET
• PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR
• VINCENT VAN GOGH
• PAUL CEZANNE
• HENRI MATISSE
• PABLO PICASSO
• JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
• ADOLF HITLER
• JOSEF STALIN
• BENITO MUSSOLINI
• VICTOR EMMANUEL III
• HEINRICH HIMMLER
• NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
• WINSTON CHURCHILL
• NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
• BORIS PASTERNAK
• LEONID BREZHNEV
• ALEXANDER DUBCEK
• JOSIP TITO
• MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
• CHARLES DEGAULLE
• WILLY BRANDT
• HELMUT KOHL
• FRANCOIS MITTERAND
• SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
• LECH WALESA
• NICOLAI CEAUSESCU
• BORIS YELTSIN
• SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

Titles, Documents, and Legislation

• DIVINE COMEDY
• CANTEBURY TALES
• GRAND TESTAMENT
• THE CITY OF LADIES
• THE COURTIER
• UTOPIA
• THE PRINCE
• CONCORDAT OF BOLGNA
• ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN
• THE DECAMERON
• TWELVE ARTICLES
• NINETY-FIVE THESES
• AGAINST THE MURDEROUS, THIEVING HORDES
• ON CHRISTIAN LIBERTY
• THE INSTITUTES OF RELIGION
• PEACE OF AUGSBURG
• SUPREMACY ACT (1534)
• THE INDEX OF PROHIBITED BOOKS
• PEACE OF WESTPHALIA
• EDICT OF NANTES
• SECOND TREATISE ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT
• PEACE OF UTRECHT
• DON QUIXOTE
• THE TRIENNIAL ACT
• LEVIATHAN
• TEST ACT OF 1763
• PRINCIPIA
• CONVERSATIONS ON THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS
• THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS
• CANDIDE
• ENCYCLOPEDIA
• THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
• NAVIGATION ACTS
• INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
• EMILE

• STAMP ACT
• COMMON SENSE
• TREATY OF PARIS, 1783
• WHAT IS THE THIRD ESTATE?
• DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN
• VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN; VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN
• DECLARATION OF PILLNITZ
• CIVIL CODE OF 1804
• NAPOLEONIC CODE (CODE NAPOLEON)
• CONCORDAT OF 1801
• ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POULATION
• COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
• FACTORY ACT OF 1833
• COMBINATION ACTS
• CARLSBAD DECREES
• INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CASUES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
• LYRICAL BALLADS
• CORN LAWS
• REFORM BILL OF 1832
• "PEOPLE'S CHARTER"
• TEN HOURS ACT OF 1847
• CONSTITUTIONAL CHARTER OF 1814
• DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
• MY SECRET LIFE
• ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES
• DESCENT OF MAN
• SYLLABUS OF ERRORS, 1864
• ON LIBERTY
• EVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM
• WHITE MAN'S BURDEN
• HEART OF DARKNESS
• ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
• TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK
• TREATY OF VERSAILLES, 1919
• ULYSSES
• MEIN KAMPF
• DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
• MAASTRICHT TREATY

Places

• CRECY
• DOMREMY
• HOT STREET
• FLORENCE
• WITTENBERG CASTLE
• WORMS
• GENEVA
• UNITED PROVINCES
• HISPANIOLA
• VERSAILLES
• WHITE MOUNTAIN
• ST. PETERSBURG
• HOTEL DIEU

• BASTILLE
• TRAFALGAR
• AUSTERLITZ
• ELBA
• ST. HELENA
• NEW HARMONY, INDIANA
• ALSACE-LORRAINE
• VERDUN
• AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
• NORMANDY
• HIROSHIMA
• NAGASAKI
• CHERNOBYL

Topics

• BLACK DEATH
• HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
• VERNACULAR LITERATURE
• THE RENAISSANCE
• RENAISSANCE ART
• THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
• T.U.L.I.P.
• THE ENGLISH REFORMATION
• THE CATHOLIC AND COUNTER-REFORMATIONS
• THE GREAT EUROPEAN WITCH HUNT
• RELIGIOUS RIOTS IN FRANCE (16TH CENTURY)
• THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
• REASONS FOR EXPLORATION AND EXPANSION
• ABSOLUTISM
• THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV
• CONSTITUTIONALISM
• SERFDOM IN EASTERN EUROPE VS. SERFDOM IN WESTERN EUROPE
• REFORMS OF PETER THE GREAT
• DID PETER THE GREAT WESTERNIZE RUSSIA?
• SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
• ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT
• BACON VS. DESCARTES
• ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM
• RISE AND FALL OF NETHERLANDS
• RISE AND FALL OF SPAIN
• 18TH CENTURY POPULATION EXPLOSION
• CHILDREN AND EDUCTAION IN 18TH CENTURY
• MEDICINE, HEALTH, DIET AND HEALTHCARE IN 18TH CENTURY

• THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (CAUSES, EFFECTS, MAJOR EVENTS, ETC.)
• NAPOLEON
• INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (CAUSES, EFFECTS, MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS, ETC.)
• METTERNICH AND CONSERVATISM
•  LIBERALISM, NATIONALISM, SOCIALISM
• ROMANTICISM (THOUGHT, ART, LITERATURE, MUSIC)
• REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 (CAUSES, EFFECTS, MAJOR EVENTS, ETC.)
• URBAN PROBLEMS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
• CHANGING SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
• NATIONALISM AND THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY AND GERMANY
• IMPERIALISM (CAUSES, EFFECTS, MAJOR EVENTS, REACTIONS, ETC.)
• WORLD WAR I (CAUSES, EFFECTS, MAJOR EVENTS, ETC.)
• RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
• GREAT DEPRESSION
• WORLD WAR II (CAUSES, EFFECTS, MAJOR EVENTS, ETC.)
• COLD WAR
• WESTERN RENAISSANCE
• POST WORLD WAR II SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGES
• CONTEMPORARY EUROPE