Important Ideas and Events of the Late Renaissance/Early Modern Period

Late Renaissance / EarlyModern, 1600—1850
the Mayflower
early American settlements
Russia under Peter the Great and his successors
Prussia in the eighteenth century
the Enlightenment
the agricultural revolution
Native American cultures
the British in India
the French Revolution
British—French conflict in Canada
the American Revolution
The Napoleonic Wars
the industrial revolution
Simón Bolívar’s fight for independence in South America
the siege of the Alamo
the California gold rush
the Lewis and Clark expedition
the U.S. acquisition of North American territories
Australia’s beginnings as a penal colony