B.A History paper II

Paper 2 :

History of Europe

1450 - 1789 A.D.

UNIT - 1 : 

1. Renaissance - Emergence, Nature & Impact.
2. The Reformation and Counter Reformation- Causes, nature of reformation, results.
3. Rise of National States - Causes, main monarchies and their growth - Ferdinand, Isabella of Spain, Louis XI of France, England - Henery VII, Holy Roman Empire.
4. Rise and Decline of Spain - Foreign Policy of Charles V, Philip II, Revolt of Netherland, Thirty Years War, Causes of downfall of Spain.
UNIT - 2
1. The Ascendancy of France - Background of religious and civil wars, Domestic policy of Henry IV, Regime of Louis XIII.
2. France at her Zenith - Domestic and foreign policy of Louis XIV.
3. England and Industrial Revolution - Queen Elizabeth I, the age of stuarts, the civil war, Charles II, James II and Glorious revolution, causes of industrial revolution and its effects.
4. The Age of Enlightened Despotism - Meaning, prominent enlightened despots - Fedrick the great,
Maria Theresa, Joseph II of Austria, Catherine II, Weakness of enlightened despotism.

UNIT - 3 :
1. Rise of Modern Russia - Peter the great, Catherine II their foreign policies.
2. Austrian Empire - War of Austrian succession - Treaty of Aix-LA-Chapple, Causes of seven years
war, The treaty of Hubertusberg, Foreign policy of Joseph II.
3. The Rise of Prussia - Domestic, foreign and religious policy of Frederick the great.
UNIT - 4
1. American War of Independence - Causes, events, results.
2. Commercial Revolution - Causes of Mercantilism, main thinkers, importance of Mercantilism and Criticism, Causes of its decline.
3. The Age of Reason - Main intellectuals, salient features of age of reason, impact of the age of reason.
France on the eve of resolution - Political, economic, religious and social condition, intellectual
revolution.