Europe in the 16th century

• Great geographical discoveries

• The colonial empires of Spain and Portugal

• Renaissance and humanism

• Social Thought of the Renaissance

• Reformation and Counter-Reformation

• Absolute monarchy as a political model

• Habsburg Empire

• France of Catholics and Huguenots

• Turkish expansion

• European economy

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Poland in the 16th century

• Jan Olbracht and the statutes of Piotrków

• Alexander and the constitution of Nihil Novi

• Sigismund the Old and the Treaty of Krakow

• Zygmunt August and the Union of Lublin

• Reformation in Poland

• First free elections

• Stefan Batory and the War for Livonia

• The Commonwealth at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries

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Europe in the 17th century

• Thirty Years' War

• The reign of Louis XIV in France

• English Revolution

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Poland in the 17th century

• Sigismund Vasa and the Polish-Swedish War

• Causes of Dimitriad

• The course and effects of Dymitriad

• Khmelnytsky Uprising in Ukraine

• John Casimir and the Swedish Deluge

• The crisis of Polish statehood in the 17th century

• Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki and the war with Turkey

• Jan Sobieski and the relief of Vienna

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Europe in the Age of Enlightenment

• Characteristics of Enlightenment

• The English Fathers of the Enlightenment

• French thinkers of the Enlightenment

• Economic liberalism of the eighteenth century

• Russia of Peter I

• Brandenburg-Prussian state

• The Austrian Monarchy in the 18th Century

• The Seven Years' War 1756-1763

• Catherine II's reign in Russia

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North America in the 16th-18th centuries

• English colonies in North America

• American War of Independence

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Poland in the 18th century

• August II the Strong and the Northern War on Polish lands

• The War of the Polish Succession 1733-1735

• August III and anarchy in the Commonwealth

• Stanisław August Poniatowski and the partitions of Poland

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The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era

• The French Revolution in 1789-1792

• Girondist rule

• Jacobin rule

• Directory rule in France and Napoleon's expedition to Egypt

• From Consulate to Empire in France

• The expansion of France in Europe in the years 1805-1809

• Duchy of Warsaw

• Napoleon's expedition to Russia

• One Hundred Days of Napoleon

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