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Quick Look: Cause-Effect(Foundations)
  • Science & Philosophy ← Rationalism
  • European Overseas Expansion ← Imperialism ← Maritime Exploration ← Crusades
  • Government Institutions ← Development of universities/education (Roman law)
  • Parliament ← Representative Institution
  • Secular Politics ← religious wars ← Peace of Augsburg ← Protestant Reformation ← abuse of church power
  • Secular Views on Politics ← Michel de Montaigne, Jean Bodin, Hugo Grotius
  • Modern Political Science (nature of authority, in the process of state-building) ← Thomas Hobbes, John Locke
  • Constitutional Government ← Hugo Grotius
  • Enlightenment ← Rationalism, Secular Politics, Scientific/Philosophical Developments
Quick Look: 1st in History
  • English Civil War (1642–1646): 1st modern revolution (gave birth to democratic political and religious movements)

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