Opium Wars and Revolutions in China // Indian Empires Collapse, fight Back, and lose // Africa goes from Rich to Exploited // Japan Industrializes to Avoid the World's Fate // Europe gets Rich // Cultures Die
Industrialization makes people rich, makes others poor, exploits workers, gives people more stuff than ever and creates a Backlash, Romantics, and Environmentalists
The US has a Conservative Revolution // The French have a Conservative and then Radical Revolution and then an Imperial Dictatorship // Haiti frees the Slaves // The Enlightenment succeeds and fails
Sweden invents the New Legions // Europe discovers how to raise gunpowder armies and, sometimes, pay them //
Descartes invents the person // Hobbes thinks Hell is Other People // Locke tells us we're all great and then we have to live together // Rousseau thinks we are born free but live in chains
Science as Reaction to the Trauma of the Reformation // Galileo proves "it Still Moves" // New Technologies disprove Aristotle // Blood is a Solid? Yeah, Kind of. // Newton ruins College with Calculus but Proves God Exists
Martin Luther has 99 problems and the Pope is Definitely 1 // War, Torture, Secret Police, Jesuits, Sweden, Spain, and How do we all Get into Heaven now? // The Catholic Church Unleashes Michelangelo
Disease, Death, Terrorism, and Market Capitalism or How Europeans Justified Slavery with Massive Amounts of Money
Europeans Leave Europe, Get Rich, and Change Everything Around the World
The ottoman pick up the pieces // 1453 // gunpowder janissaries // magnificent rulers and the Great Porte // The Largest Mosque in the World // Terrible Rulers and Ineffective Viziers // Harems and Murder Plots // Falling Behind, Reform, Conservative Backlash, Collapse