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The story of the world, history for the classical child, [Susan Wise Bauer], Volume 3

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[Grades 1-7.]

history

The story of the world

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[Susan Wise Bauer]

history for the classical child

A guide to the history of early modern times, discussing major historical events, people, and practices around the world from 1600 to 1850

Disc 1. A world of empires. Holy Roman Empire -- The riches of Spain -- Protestant rebellions -- James, King of two countries -- Searching for the Northwest Passage -- Warlords of Japan -- Disc 2. The medieval Indian Empire -- New colonies in the New World -- Spread of slavery -- The middle of the East. The Persian puzzle -- The Ottoman Turks -- The Western War. The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Disc 3. Far East of Europe -- Moghul Emperors of India -- Battle, fire, and plague in England -- Sun King of France -- The rise of Prussia. Frederick, the First Prussian king -- Disc 4. A New World in conflict. War against the colonies : King Philip's war -- War against the colonies : Louis XIV saves France -- William Penn's holy experiment -- The west. Universal laws of Newton and Locke -- Scientific farming -- Russia looks West. Peter the Great -- Peter's port to the West -- East and West collide -- Disc 5. English in India -- Imperial East -- Fighting over North America -- Revolution!Disc 6. The new country. The American constitution -- The first American President (1789-1797) -- Sailing South. Captain Cook reaches Botany Bay -- The convict settlement -- Revolution gone sour. The storming of the Bastille -- The reign of terror -- Catherine the Great. -- Disc 7. A changing world. Steam and coal in Britain -- Cotton and guns in America -- China and the rest of the world. The Kingdom at the center of the world -- Rise of the opium trade -- Rise of Bonaparte -- Freedom in the Carribean. Haitian revolt -- A different kind of rebelion. The wold of the factories -- The Luddites -- The opened West. Lewis and Clark map the West -- Disc 8. Tecumseh's resistance --- The end of Napoleon -- Freedom for South America. Simon Bolivar: the liberator -- Freedom, but not unity -- Mexican independence. The cry of Dolores -- The Republic of Mexico -- The slave trade ends -- Disc 9. Troubled Africa. Zulu kingdom -- The Boers and the British -- American tragedies. The Trail of Tears -- Nat Turner's revolt -- China adrift. The first Opium War -- Mexico and her neighbor. Remember the Alamo -- Mexican-American War -- New Zealand and her rulers. Treaty of Waitangi -- The New Zealand wars -- World of Forty-Nine. The Gold Rush -- World of unrest

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Early modern times, from Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners