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New Political Ideas and Revolutions


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 * Challenging old beliefs, magic and mysticism.
 * Notable figures of the scientific revolution.
 * The Trial of Galileo.
 * Absolutism – characteristics of absolutism and absolute monarchs who were influential, focusing on France and England
 * The Enlightenment. (Locke vs. Hobbes)
 * Notable Enlightenment thinkers.
 * The influence of enlightenment thinkers on the beginnings of America.
 * The American and French Revolutions (Napoleon)
 * Latin American Revolutions

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