TAR314

School of Humanities \ History

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Compulsory

English

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History department; all departments

The economic, social and cultural structures and developments that interact with the political flow in modern and modern Europe will also be covered. The last major topic of the course is the process that leads to the First World War, when the European states in the modern era continued their competition and conflicts among themselves on other continents.

DAVIES, Norman; European History, Imge Publishing, Ankara, 2011.

The aim of this course is to learn how the norms, whose foundations were laid in the Middle Ages and adopted as common criteria of the contemporary world, were shaped in the specific historical flow of Modern Europe, where they developed in principle, and to what extent they reached in the Modern Age, accompanied by relevant primary sources.

1. Students will be informed about the contributions of political, social and economic developments in Europe from the Modern Age to the world domination and their effects on the change of world history.

Week 1: Religious Wars in Europe After the Reformation
Week 2: European Political History from the End of the 15th Century to the Mid-17th Century
Week 3: European States Achieving Maritime Supremacy (1500-1700)
Week 4: New Colonial States and Modern International Law
Week 5: The Thirty Years' War and the Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Week 6: The Age of Enlightenment
Week 7: Midterm Exam
Week 8: Enlightened Absolutism
Week 9: French Revolution
Week 10: The Congress of Vienna, the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848
Week 11: Developments in European Politics in the Second Half of the 19th Century
Week 12: The Road to World War I and the Causes of the War

• Participation 10 %
• Presentation 10 %
• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Homework 10 %